David Schlesinger

Last updated
David Schlesinger in 2008 David Schlesinger.jpg
David Schlesinger in 2008

David Schlesinger (April 15, 1960 - ) is the founder and managing director of the media and China independent consultants Tripod Advisors, a D.A. Schlesinger Limited company, based in Hong Kong. www.tripodadvisors.com/about

He is the former chairman of Thomson Reuters China, and represented the company at a senior level and spotted opportunities for businesses across the group throughout Greater China until the end of August 2012. [1]

He was named to that position on February 7, 2011, after completing more than four years as editor-in-chief of Reuters, leading the 3,000 editorial staff in text, television and pictures strategically and operationally. He was named to that post in December 2006 when Reuters was independent. From the creation of Thomson Reuters in April 2008, he became the editor-in-chief of Reuters News at Thomson Reuters. He was global managing editor from October 2003 until becoming editor-in-chief. Schlesinger was executive vice president and Editor, Americas, running operations in North, Central and South America between 2000 and October 2003. He transferred to New York in 1995 as financial editor for the Americas and also served as managing editor for the Americas. He joined Reuters in 1987 in Hong Kong as a correspondent. He then ran Reuters editorial operations in Taiwan, China and the Greater China region in a series of posts between 1989 and 1995. Prior to joining Reuters he wrote for a variety of publications from Hong Kong and had an early career as a teacher. David graduated from Oberlin College and has a master's degree from Harvard University, where he concentrated on Chinese politics.

In 2008, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded Schlesinger its Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting.

“More than any other news organization, Reuters understands that there is no sharp dividing line between business reporting, political reporting, and other kinds of news,” said Peter Price, President/CEO of NATAS. “As Editor-in-Chief, David Schlesinger has preserved this venerable organization’s core journalistic values while enthusiastically embracing the possibilities and challenges of the digital age, and we are proud to honor him for this achievement.” [2]

Schlesinger is the Honorary President of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), a board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a board member of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and chairman of the board of the Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program. He is on the Steering Committee for Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and for Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and Communications.

Related Research Articles

Next Digital Limited, previously known as Next Media Limited, was the largest listed media company in Hong Kong.

Thomson Financial was an arm of the Thomson Corporation, an information provider. When the Thomson Corporation merged with Reuters to form Thomson Reuters in April 2008, Thomson Financial was merged with the business of Reuters to form the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters.

Celestial Pictures is a diversified entertainment based company focusing on Asian-language film and television content including production, aggregation, distribution, and the operation of TV channels.

Teddy Zee is a Chinese film producer/executive whose films he had produced and supervised have amassed over $2.6 billion in revenue. He served as Executive Vice President at Columbia Pictures, Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures, President of Sony-based Overbrook Films, President of Fox-based Davis Entertainment, and now under the banner of Teddy Zee Productions. He is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Oscars), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and Producers Guild of America. In addition to film and entertainment, Zee has built an active consulting and advisory practice that spans media, technology and commerce while bridging Hollywood with Asia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomson Reuters</span> Canadian multinational information conglomerate

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational information conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and maintains its headquarters in that city's Bay Adelaide Centre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antiquities Advisory Board</span>

The Antiquities Advisory Board (AAB) is a statutory body of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the responsibility of advising the Antiquities Authority on any matters relating to antiquities and monuments. The AAB was established in 1976 along with the Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) when the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance (Cap. 53) was enacted, and comprises members appointed by the Chief Executive. The corresponding governmental ministry is the Development Bureau, and executive support for the AAB is provided by the AMO which is under the Development Bureau.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Darren Childs</span> British business executive

Darren Childs is a British business executive. Childs has held a number of senior executive positions across media and was recently the chief executive officer at Premiership Rugby working with CVC Capital Partners.

Breakingviews is Reuters' brand for financial commentary. The company was founded in 1999 as Breakingviews.com and was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2009.

Ash-har Quraishi is an American broadcast journalist and national consumer correspondent for CBS News. He is a former reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. He was previously the chief Midwest correspondent for now-defunct Al Jazeera America at its Chicago Bureau. He has served as CNN's bureau chief in Islamabad. He later worked for WTTW-TV in Chicago and for the Chicago News Cooperative. He was born in Chicago.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James E. Thompson</span>

James E. "Jim" Thompson, GBS is an American businessman who is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Crown Worldwide Group.

Asim Ghosh is the former President and CEO of Husky Energy, one of Canada's largest integrated energy companies. He retired in December 2016 and sat on Husky's Board of Directors until December 2020 when it merged with Cenovus Energy Inc.

Hugo Sai Keung Chan : is a member of the Election Committee of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, and the National Director of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International in Hong Kong.

NewsRx is a media and technology company focusing on digital media, printed media, news services, and knowledge discovery through its BUTTER platform. In 1995 the company was the world's largest producer of health news. The company publishes 194 news weeklies in health and other fields, which are distributed to subscribers and partners including LexisNexis, Factiva, the Wall Street Journal Professional Edition, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, and Cengage Learning. C W Henderson founded the company in 1984 and its first publication was AIDS Weekly. In the early 2000s, the firm added the imprint, VerticalNews to publish news weeklies in non-health fields. Now based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company reports through its daily news service and publishes reference books through its partner, ScholarlyEditions. NewsRx launched its BUTTER platform in 2015, which is a knowledge discovery engine that delivers its content to academics, researchers, and professionals.

Guanrong Chen (陈关荣) or Ron Chen is a Chinese mathematician who made contributions to Chaos theory. He has been the chair professor and the founding director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong since 2000. Prior to that, he was a tenured full professor at the University of Houston, Texas. Chen was elected Member of the Academy of Europe in 2014, elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015, and elected IEEE Fellow in 1997. He is currently the editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yu Pun-hoi</span> Hong Kong businessman

Yu Pun-hoi, commonly known as P H Yu, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur in the information technology, cinema, culture and media industries. He is the Chairman of the Board and largest shareholder of Hong Kong-listed Nan Hai Corporation Limited (0680.HK) and Sino-i Technology Limited (0250.HK). Yu is also the founder and chairman of the Tsinghua University Center for US-China Relations (CUSCR), and the Peking University Chinese Culture Research Center.

David D. Hale was an American economist and author. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of the William F Butler Award from the National Association for Business Economics. Hale held a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.

Huang Haibo is the Deputy Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel; Director of the Chief Editor's Office, Phoenix Satellite Television Hong Kong. He was born in Beijing, 1965, now living in Hong Kong. Huang is married with one daughter.

<i>Chinese Chemical Letters</i> Academic journal

Chinese Chemical Letters is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of chemistry. It was established in 1990 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Chinese Chemical Society. The editor-in-chief is Xu-Hong Qian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Ehrlich</span> American lawyer and author

Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich is an American lawyer and author, known for handling landmark appeals in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. He is co-author of the influential Thomson Reuters treatise on insurance litigation, and editor-in-chief of Advocate, the most widely circulated trial-bar magazine in the United States. He and his son, Clinton Ehrlich, are also known for exonerating Sgt. Raymond Lee Jennings, an Iraq War veteran who served 11 years of a life sentence for murdering teenager Michelle O'Keefe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horst Geicke</span> German entrepreneur and investor

Horst Joachim Franz Geicke is a German-born entrepreneur, investor and official in Asia who has lived in Hong Kong and Vietnam since the 1980s. In Hong Kong, he is co-founder, partner and former executive chairman of the investment firm PAG and known as chairman of the German and the European Chamber of Commerce. In Vietnam, he is investor, chairman and CEO of the Deutsches Haus Ho Chi Minh City and known as founder and executive chairman of the VinaCapital Group.

References

  1. ""Stephen J. Adler Named Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News; David A. Schlesinger to take Senior Role in China"". Archived from the original on 2011-05-08. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  2. "NOMINATIONS FOR THE 6th ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS FOR BUSINESS & FINANCIAL REPORTING ANNOUNCED". Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2008-11-23.

s