Betty Wong
Betty Wong was named Global Managing Editor in April 2008, and helps to design and execute editorial strategy for Reuters. Betty and the managing editors for the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia oversee staff and their safety, career development, communications, technology, business and customer engagement and the global editorial budget. Based in New York, Betty is a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation and Columbia University's Knight-Bagehot fellowship program. Betty has been a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, Loeb and SABEW awards. She is also a member of the Asian-American Journalists Association and a founding member of Reuters editorial diversity group. Since joining Reuters in 1989, Betty's roles have included global head of editorial operations, Americas managing editor, global equities editor, Americas equities editor, U.S. company news editor, senior Wall Street correspondent and deputy financial copy desk editor. As a Reuters reporter, Betty's beats included the U.S. stock market and the brokerage industry and covered the technology-fuelled bull market and the Goldman Treasury bond scandal. Prior to joining Reuters, Betty worked at The Wall Street Journal for five years and covered Manhattan federal court and reported on white collar crime cases from Michael Milken to Ivan Boesky. She graduated from New York University where she studied journalism and physics. Betty is married to her high school sweetheart Terry and considers her biggest accomplishment to be raising two terrific daughters, Kristen 16, and Amanda, 13. |
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