Robert C. Basler
Blogger
Reuters Inc.
2445 P Street NW
Washington DC 2007
202-415-6211
robert.basler@reuters.com
Robert Basler is a 27-year veteran of Reuters, and spent nine years in online news, working with the team that pioneered such revolutionary milestones as real-time online news, online photos, raw video online, info-graphics, presentation in multiple languages, etc. Basler does a daily reader feedback blog called "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," often highlighting highly embarrassing errors from the news file. He created a number of Reuters Oddly Enough products featuring bizarre and quirky news, and still writes the syndicated Oddly Enough blog. Before moving into the online world, Basler was the Reuters North American News Editor, and prior to that he spent four years as the Asia News Editor, directing coverage by journalists in 22 bureaus, from Karachi to Wellington, Shanghai to Phnom Penh.