Ed Tobin is the Head of the Global News Desk at Reuters, leading a team of 100 desk editors who publish news at speed and deliver the most ambitious stories for the Front Page of the world's largest news organization. In March 2019, he was awarded Editor of the Year honors at the Reuters Journalist of the Year Awards. In his nearly 24 years at Reuters, Ed has reported on beats ranging from paper companies to food, tobacco, health care and manufacturing, and has traveled the world driving the news file and leading various teams in print and video and mentoring journalists along the way. As the youngest of 17 children, Ed was born a team player. Before being named as the Head of the Desk in March, 2022, he was the global Finance Desk editor for Reuters News, which involves duties ranging from coordinating and editing the biggest financial stories of the day, week and month, to approving pitches from around the world for deeply-reported enterprise stories and seeing them to publication. He also manages a team of 10 desk editors based in the United States, and is a member of the Thomson Reuters team negotiating a new labor contract with the News Guild of New York. After freelance roles at The Village Voice and CNNfn while earning a master's degree in journalism at New York University, his full-time career in journalism started at Reuters in 1997 as a news assistant and then beat reporter on the Corporate News desk. He became Deputy Editor for the Company News team in the Americas in 2006 before joining Insider, a Reuters News video venture, in 2009, as a global specialist editor. In 2011, Ed joined the Top News desk as a deputy editor, coordinating and editing the Front Page stories of the day for the Americas. He went on to serve as Editor in Charge of Company News, Americas, leading a team of 80 journalists charged with covering Corporate America from the United States and Bangalore. Ed also has experience driving breaking general news when he stepped in to run the U.S. general news team for 6 months in late 2015. And he served as the Reuters News Learning Editor for the Americas from 2014-2015, after a 6-month leave to work on a personal finance book, "Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials" by Christine Romans. Ed graduated with a bachelor degree in history and a minor in business from Loyola University in Chicago in 1996 before earning a masters degree in journalism at New York University. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his family.
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