The Reuters Institute's editorial team
The Reuters Institute’s editorial team creates original articles on the future of journalism worldwide. These pieces focus on some of the most pressing issues facing the industry and the profession, from press freedom and exile journalism to the rise of news creators and generative AI. Our journalists and contributors report, research, write and edit these pieces, which are published and promoted on the Institute’s website and digital channels.
These articles are journalistic in nature and complement the Institute’s research by focusing on countries, topics and sources that rarely appear in our own reports. Our reporting tends to stay away from overrepresented regions such as Britain and the United States, and focuses on underreported regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, pieces often focus on trends playing out globally and feature powerful voices and innovative outlets from all over the world.
Who conducts our reporting?
Our articles are produced by a small team of reporters led by our Director of Editorial, Eduardo Suárez, who signs off every piece we publish, oversees our website, and is responsible for our newsletters and digital channels. The other members of the team are:
- Matthew Leake is our Communications Manager. He manages our social media channels, scripts, records and edits the Institute’s podcast, and produces vertical videos for our social channels.
- Marina Adami and Gretel Kahn are both journalists. They write and edit newsletters and original pieces (along with Matthew and Eduardo), and post on the Institute’s digital channels.
- Alex Reid is our publications officer and is responsible for the publication process of every piece of research we publish.
Some of our articles are reported and written by a few regular contributors such as Maurice Oniang’o, Murillo Camarotto, Jaemark Tordecilla, Raksha Kumar and Karen Rebelo. At the time of this writing, the Institute doesn’t take any pitches from any other external freelancers.
Do we publish opinion pieces?
We tend to refrain from publishing opinion pieces on the Reuters Institute's website, as it’s easy to find these takes from sales people, newsroom managers and media consultants on places like Substack and LinkedIn. On rare occasions we’ve published a guest essay from an author whose authority on the issue is widely recognised. These pieces are edited by our team and reviewed before publication.
What else does the team do?
The editorial team is also responsible for the Reuters Institute’s newsletter in English and Spanish, and for the roundup on global journalism which we publish on LinkedIn every weekday. The team promotes the Institute’s research and programmes on several online platforms, produces its podcast series, and manages special projects such as the Digital News Report interactive, which we launched in June 2026.
How do we conduct our reporting?
The editorial team is committed to upholding Reuters trust principles and Reuters standards and values. We approach our work with empathy, fairness and an open mind. We aspire to present a wide range of views on the problems facing the news industry, including those of junior journalists, media managers, online platforms, audience members and external observers.
How do we use AI?
Our articles, roundups and newsletters are reported, written and edited by human journalists. However, the team uses generative AI to streamline different tasks. At the time of this writing, we are using GenAI for:
- Creating transcripts of interviews and podcasts.
- Creating first drafts for some of our translations which human journalists review before publication.
- Cleaning audio files.
- Copy-editing our newsletters, reports and news pieces.
- Curating news pieces for our daily roundup on journalism worldwide.
- Transforming our articles’ final drafts into clean HTML for our website.
- Summarising relevant articles and exploring different angles to enrich our own research on different topics.
- Brainstorming ideas and headlines.
This page was last updated in September 2026.