The Reuters award-winning Enterprise team has expanded with the recent hires of investigative reporters Jeff Horwitz and Gavin Finch. Global Enterprise Editor Mike Williams recently sent out the following notes to staff:

Jeff Horwitz to join Reuters as technology investigations reporter

 All,

 I’m excited to announce that Jeff Horwitz is joining Reuters in the new role of tech investigations reporter.

Jeff joins us from the Wall Street Journal, where he led the reporting on the Facebook Files, a 2021 series that exposed how Meta was aware that its social-media platforms were harming teenage girls and other users but failed to take action. The series won a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award. Last year, Jeff shared a Loeb Award for “The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms,” a series that revealed how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content. 

Based in the San Francisco area, Jeff will focus on technology, ranging from deep dives inside the world’s most powerful tech companies to explorations of their influence in the worlds of politics and finance. He will report to Steve Stecklow, who recently relocated to the Bay Area from London, and will work closely with Global Technology Industry Editor Ken Li and his team. Jeff will begin in June. 

Jeff previously was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, where he broke stories about how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had secretly worked to advance Russian interests. He has also worked for American Banker, Legal Times, the San Bernardino Sun and the Washington City Paper, and was a freelance reporter in Rwanda. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Pomona College. 

Please join me in welcoming Jeff to Reuters and wishing him success in this important new role.

 

Gavin Finch to join Reuters as EMEA investigations reporter 

All, 

I’m delighted to report that Gavin Finch is joining Reuters as an investigative reporter on the Global Enterprise Team. 

Gavin joins us from Bloomberg, where as senior investigations reporter he has produced sophisticated work with potent real-world impact. In 2023-24, he led a team that revealed how major energy companies were saddling UK consumers with more than a billion pounds in extra costs by manipulating markets. The story led to new regulatory rules and won a Wincott Award, Britain’s top business-journalism honor. He and his colleagues revealed in 2018 how a few hedge funds reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from just a few minutes’ advance insider knowledge about the Brexit vote outcome, earning the team a Barlett & Steele Gold Medal for Investigative Journalism.  

Gavin brings a high level of financial literacy, deep experience in follow-the-money reporting, and a record of holding top institutions to account. In 2019, he exposed endemic sexual harassment in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, sparking an overhaul in how the industry polices itself. Earlier, he and his colleagues won a Gerald Loeb award for detailing how traders at Citi, UBS, Barclays, JPMorgan and other banks colluded to rig the $5 trillion-a-day global foreign exchange market for years. 

Based in London, Gavin will help drive our investigative reporting in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will report to Lori Hinnant and start toward the end of June. 

Gavin began his career at Euromoney covering the bond and money markets. That was his beat for Bloomberg as well during the global financial crisis. 

Please join me in welcoming him to Reuters and wishing him success in this important new role.

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