Jane Barrett is the Head of AI Strategy at Reuters, leading teams to develop and deploy AI in the Reuters newsroom and for client-facing products. She works closely with TR Labs and Reuters Applied Innovation on research and development and Product and Engineering teams to integrate AI solutions into colleagues’ and clients’ workflows.
Before this, Jane was the Global Editor, Media News Strategy and was responsible for editorial innovation and new business, including audio, fact-checking, events and developing new formats. Previously, Jane led the multimedia transformation of the global newsroom, was business editor for EMEA, started up a financial video service and was a reporter in Italy and Spain.
Outside Reuters she is a trustee of Podium.me, a charity that gets young people into journalism and storytelling through podcasts, and is a board member of the World Editors’ Forum.