Stephen J. Adler
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Stephen J. Adler (born 1955) is an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Reuters from 2011 to 2021.
Early life
Stephen Adler was born in 1955. His father, Norman, was a high school English department chairman, and his mother, Mildred, was a writer and social worker. He graduated from Harvard University in 1977 and from Harvard Law School in 1983.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/style/lisa-grunwald-an-editor-is-wed-to-stephen-j-adler.html |title=Lisa Grunwald, an Editor, Is Wed to Stephen J. Adler |work=The New York Times |date=10 April 1988}}
Career
He began his career as a reporter for Tampa Times and Tallahassee Democrat. He joined The American Lawyer in 1983, then in 1988 joined The Wall Street Journal as legal editor. He was promoted to assistant managing editor in 1998 and to deputy managing editor in 2000.
He was editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 to 2009. During his five-year tenure, the magazine and its website won more than 100 awards.
He joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as senior vice president and editorial director of the company's Professional Division.{{cite web|url=https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/authors/stephen-j-adler/|title=Stephen. J. Adler|publisher=Thomson Reuters|accessdate=20 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220201134/https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/authors/stephen-j-adler/ |archive-date= Dec 20, 2018 }} In 2011, he was named editor-in-chief of Reuters News, where he directed the editorial operations and news strategy for the company. During his tenure, Reuters won eight Pulitzer Prizes.{{cite web |url=http://thomsonreuters.com/about/exec_team/Stephen_Adler/ |title= Stephen J. Adler |publisher=Thomson Reuters |access-date=16 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525010655/http://thomsonreuters.com/about/exec_team/Stephen_Adler/ |archive-date=25 May 2012 |url-status=dead}} In 2018, he spoke out against the arrest and conviction of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-trial.html|title=Case Against Reuters Journalists in Myanmar Moves to Trial|work=New York Times|first=Mike|last=Ives|date=July 9, 2018}} He retired from Reuters in 2021.{{cite web |author=Robertson, Katie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/business/media/reuters-editor-retires.html|title=Reuters Editor in Chief, Stephen Adler, Is Retiring|work=The New York Times|date=January 6, 2021}}
Adler is chairman of the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and is a member of the boards of the Columbia Journalism Review and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
=Publications=
Adler is author of the book The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom, which won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. With his wife, novelist Lisa Grunwald, he was co-editor of Letters of the Century: America 1900—1999, Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present,{{cite book|last1=Grunwald|first1=Lisa|last2=Adler|first2=Stephen J.|title=Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8cGGFpBnBEC|date=21 January 2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-49333-0}} and The Marriage Book.{{cite book|last1=Grunwald|first1=Lisa|last2=Adler|first2=Stephen J.|title=The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05n5CAAAQBAJ|date=12 May 2015|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-6965-0}}
Awards
- 2023: Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award{{Cite press release |title=Winners of the 2023 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/winners-of-the-2023-gerald-loeb-awards-announced-by-ucla-anderson-at-new-york-city-event-301942571.html |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |agency=PR Newswire |date=September 23, 2023 |access-date=December 16, 2023}}
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