It was a morning of shakeups at Reuters.
The wire service on Wednesday said it was losing new Reuters Digital Executive Editor Jim Roberts and Design Director Daniele Code, promoting Bill Riordan to publisher of Reuters.com andย canceling its “Next” project after it failed to meet deadlines or stay within its budget.
Roberts’ departure after just seven months is especially surprising — he left the New York Times after 26 years with the paper in January, taking a voluntary buyout. Shortly afterwards, he landed at Reuters as its site’s executive editor. According to an internal email, he chose to leave the company.