The Australian Broadcasting Corporation announced Thursday it has selected a top Reuters executive to lead its news division. Simon Robinson, who currently serves as executive editor at Reuters, will take over as director of news and current affairs beginning in September.
The appointment was confirmed in a statement posted on the broadcaster’s website by managing director Hugh Marks. Robinson, an Australian citizen based in London, will fill the position previously held by Justin Stevens, who stepped down Wednesday after serving four years in the role for personal and professional reasons.
At Reuters, Robinson will be succeeded by Nick Tattersall, the organization’s global managing editor for newsroom operations, according to a staff memo from Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni.
Robinson joined Reuters in 2010 and was promoted to executive editor in October 2022. Prior to that promotion, he spent nearly seven years overseeing investigations and enterprise reporting across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he supervised award-winning coverage of Iran, Russia, corporate taxation, Greek banks and migration issues.
His journalism career began at Time magazine, where he worked as a correspondent and later editor from 1995 to 2010. During his tenure there, he reported from more than 50 countries across Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Robinson has also published short stories and created an award-winning satirical film about aid workers and journalists working in Africa.
The Guardian in Australia first broke news of Robinson’s appointment to the broadcasting corporation.
Reuters operates as a division of Thomson Reuters and employs more than 2,600 journalists in 200 locations worldwide. The news organization serves 50 million monthly digital users and hundreds of thousands of professional subscribers through Thomson Reuters and LSEG platforms.
