Ed Tobin

About

Ed Tobin is the Head of the Global News Desk at Reuters, leading a team of 112 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 28 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 is also 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 CNN-fn 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 in 2015. On the other end of the journalism spectrum, he edited the personal finance book "Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials" by Christine Romans. Ed graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and a minor in business from Loyola University in Chicago in 1996 before earning a Master's Degree in journalism at New York University. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, but is a native of Arizona who spent his formative years in Omaha. Ed looks forward to his Nebraska Cornhuskers and Chicago Bears returning to the glory of his childhood.