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Tim Large

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Location: London, United Kingdom

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Timothy Large is Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world's leading provider of news and information. In this role he is responsible for four global news services run by the Foundation:

AlertNet, the world's humanitarian news site
Its related Emergency Information Service (EIS) for disaster-affected populations
TrustLaw, a global hub of news and information on anti-corruption, women's rights and free legal assistance
Trust.org, the Foundation's portal site

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.

He has also worked as a freelance journalist. He has written widely on humanitarian themes as well as social issues, economics, science, literature and the arts. He is a passionate photojournalist.

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.

My latest articles

Crisis grips North Korean rice bowl

On an exclusive journey into North Korea's farm belt, AlertNet finds dire signs of malnutrition. Click here for a slideshow on the North Korea hunger crisis

Humanitarian spending bucks financial crisis-report

But almost 40 percent of needs still unmet due to devastating disasters and rising delivery costs

Can microcredit fuel jobs in crisis-hit Europe?

Pro bono lawyers from 20 law firms complete a major study of the obstacles to microfinance across Europe

North Korea asks AlertNet to help mobilise food aid

The reclusive state makes an unprecedented request to non-traditional donors

Saudi journalists and officials get to grips with disasters

Course participants faced with make-believe flash floods, cholera outbreak, earthquake and ensuing tsunami

TrustMedia security seminar goes live

A three-day seminar on reporting international security issues

SPECIAL COVERAGE: Tackling Haiti's rape epidemic

What can be done to ensure better protection, care and justice for rape survivors?

Thomson Reuters Foundation anti-rape forum draws support from Haiti President-elect Michel Martelly

Martelly also said Haiti can learn from TrustLaw comparative law study

Haiti's rulers back TrustLaw anti-rape project

Haiti President-elect Michel Martelly supports clamp-down on sexual violence

VIDEO INTERVIEW-G20 gives boost to OECD bribery convention

Richard Boucher, deputy chief of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks to TrustLaw

My latest blogs

Tragedy or stagecraft: N. Korea’s food crisis

12 October 2011 12:23 BST | Comments ( 1 )
tim large | AlertNet News Blog
Though granted unprecedented access to hospitals, schools, orphanages and collective farms, our visit was tightly controlled
Somali exodus slows in Horn of Africa but grows in Yemen - U.N.

26 August 2011 14:50 BST | Comments ( 0 )
tim large | AlertNet Scrapbook
Though granted unprecedented access to hospitals, schools, orphanages and collective farms, our visit was tightly controlled
Report probes 'societal' side of Japan quake catastrophe

25 August 2011 13:31 BST | Comments ( 1 )
tim large | AlertNet Scrapbook
Though granted unprecedented access to hospitals, schools, orphanages and collective farms, our visit was tightly controlled
Register newborns to tackle statelessness - children’s charity

25 August 2011 13:28 BST | Comments ( 0 )
tim large | AlertNet Scrapbook
Though granted unprecedented access to hospitals, schools, orphanages and collective farms, our visit was tightly controlled
Most Tripoli hospitals are receiving wounded – MSF

25 August 2011 12:33 BST | Comments ( 1 )
tim large | AlertNet Scrapbook
On-the-ground quotes from Doctors Without Borders on the health emergency in Tripoli

Pictures

A defected soldier, supporting anti-regime protesters, stands guard as women queue at a polling station during presidential elections in Sanaa

A defected soldier, supporting anti-regime protesters, stands guard as women queue at a polling station during presidential ...

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Videos

New Zealand marks quake anniversary

The New Zealand city of Christchurch marks the first anniversary of last year's quake that killed 185 and destroyed its ...

Yemen votes for post-Saleh era

Yemenis line up to vote in presidential elections in which outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh's deputy is the only ...