Stephen J. Adler
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Stephen J. Adler is currently the Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of the Professional Division of Thomson Reuters
. Adler was the Editor in Chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 to 2009 when he joined Thomson Reuters Previously, Adler was Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal from 1988 to 2004 and was Editor of the American Lawyer Magazine from 1983-1988.
Adler, then at The Wall Street Journal
, was named in December 2004 to succeed Stephen B. Shepard
as editor in chief at BusinessWeek.
Adler was the focus of controversy in April, 2011 after he was accused of being behind the dismissal of David Fox, Reuters' Jakarta bureau chief, for a comment the latter inadvertently wrote in a Reuters only chat-room. Fox, who had worked for Reuters for 20 years, during which time he covered 35 wars for the company, was sacked without leave to appeal after he made a mildly sexual joke to a colleague in what he believed to be a private message. His attempts to have the offending comment removed and to apologise were rejected, causing anger among many journalists.
Adler is married to author Lisa Grunwald
. and has collaborated with her on two anthologies.
Thomson Reuters
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. Adler was the Editor in Chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 to 2009 when he joined Thomson Reuters Previously, Adler was Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal from 1988 to 2004 and was Editor of the American Lawyer Magazine from 1983-1988.
Adler, then at The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, was named in December 2004 to succeed Stephen B. Shepard
Stephen B. Shepard
Stephen B. Shepard is an American business journalist and academic who served as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine and was the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism...
as editor in chief at BusinessWeek.
Adler was the focus of controversy in April, 2011 after he was accused of being behind the dismissal of David Fox, Reuters' Jakarta bureau chief, for a comment the latter inadvertently wrote in a Reuters only chat-room. Fox, who had worked for Reuters for 20 years, during which time he covered 35 wars for the company, was sacked without leave to appeal after he made a mildly sexual joke to a colleague in what he believed to be a private message. His attempts to have the offending comment removed and to apologise were rejected, causing anger among many journalists.
Adler is married to author Lisa Grunwald
Lisa Grunwald
- Biography :She is the author of several well-received novels. With her husband, Stephen J. Adler, she has edited two best-selling anthologies: Letters of the Century and Women's Letters . Grunwald has also been a full-time editor and writer at the magazines Esquire, Avenue, and Life, and has...
. and has collaborated with her on two anthologies.
Books
- Letters of the Century: American 1900-1999 with Lisa Grunwald
- Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present with Lisa Grunwald
- The Jury