Dean Wright

In May 2005 Wright was appointed the first Senior Vice President and Managing Editor for Reuters Consumer Services. In this role he heads up the editorial operations and programming for Reuters consumer facing media services globally including the online, mobile, and interactive television platforms.

Wright spent four years at MSNBC.com as Managing Editor, News, helping launch MSNBC.com into the Web’s No. 1 news destination by developing the site’s original reporting, including coverage of the 1998 elections, the impeachment crisis and the 2000 presidential primary campaigns.

Before his first tenure at MSNBC.com, Wright worked as a reporter and supervisor at the Associated Press Washington Bureau. Over the prior 20 years, Wright held a range of editorial positions at leading metropolitan dailies, including the The Baltimore Sun, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Kansas City Star and The San Jose Mercury News, one of the nation’s first newspapers to go online. Wright began his journalism career in Canada, and worked for a number of newspapers there, including The Albertan, The London Free Press and The Toronto Star.