Tim Large

AlertNet Editor

Tim Large is Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world's biggest provider of news and information. As such he is responsible for AlertNet, the Foundation's global humanitarian news service, and TrustLaw, a global news service on women’s rights, good governance and anti-corruption.

He led the creation of the Emergency Information Service for disaster-affected populations, which first deployed immediately after the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. He managed the editorial component of “AlertNet for Journalists”, an initiative aimed at helping media professionals around the world tackle neglected wars, disasters and health emergencies.

Born in the United States, raised in Australia, naturalised in Britain and a long-time resident of Japan, he considers himself a global citizen. He has a First Class degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and in 1997 was a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholar in Tokyo.

He is an award-winning multimedia journalist who designed and regularly delivers the Foundation’s TrustMedia "Reporting Crises and Disasters" courses for local journalists in developing countries.

Before joining the Foundation in 2003 he was a correspondent for Reuters News in Tokyo, a staff writer for a major Japanese daily newspaper and news editor of a popular online science magazine.