Reuters names first woman editor-in-chief in 170 years

Reuters News has named Alessandra Galloni as its next editor-in-chief, appointing a woman to the role for the first time in the news service’s 170-year history, reports Bloomberg.

Galloni is set to take the job on April 19, the company said in a statement Monday.

She will replace Stephen Adler, 66, who ran the newsroom for a decade.

Forty-seven-year-old Galloni, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, joined Reuters in 2013 in its Southern Europe bureau. She has served as global managing editor since 2015.

“She was the standout candidate in an extensive, global search and highly competitive recruitment process, which featured many impressive internal and external candidates,” Reuters President Michael Friedenberg said in a statement.