Dan Colarusso, a veteran of Bloomberg TV and the New York Post, has been tapped to run Reuters’ embattled digital news operation.
He replaces Jim Roberts, who resigned last week as executive editor, digital, after learning that the plug was being pulled on the Reuters Next project, which had been envisioned as a next generation website aimed at a broad consumer audience.
Roberts, had joined Reuters in February after taking a buyout from the New York Times. There were high hopes that he could lead a charge against arch-rival Bloomberg L.P. and finally get Next moving in the right direction.
In addition to being executive editor of Reuters Digital, Colarusso will remain global head of programming for Thomson Reuters.