Former BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler named editor-in-chief of Reuters News

Stephen J. Adler (pictured) who left the top editing job at BusinessWeek when Bloomberg LP took over the magazine in 2009, will now take charge of the Reuters News service. Thomson Reuters Corp., the news and information provider that owns Reuters, said Monday that Adler has been named editor-in-chief effective immediately. He is taking over for David A. Schlesinger, who after four years at the helm is becoming chairman of Thomson Reuters China. Adler spent 16 years at The Wall Street Journal before serving as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek for more than four years. He stepped down in December 2009 after Bloomberg bought the weekly and handed the reins to Josh Tyrangiel, then deputy managing editor of Time magazine.