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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 blogs

What good is 'crowd-sourcing' when everyone needs help?

29 March 2012 19:25 BST | Comments ( 1 )
tim large | TechnoTalk
Crowd-sourcing makes sense for documenting violence or rights abuses, but how useful is it after natural disasters?
Will Twitter put the U.N. out of the disaster business?

24 March 2012 21:37 GMT | Comments ( 0 )
tim large | TechnoTalk
How is communications technology transforming disaster response?
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