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Timothy Large
Timothy Large is director of independent media programmes at the International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna, where he manages the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund, which channels millions of euros of public and philanthropic money into cross-border watchdog reporting.
He is an award-winning journalist, editor and media development specialist. Before joining IPI in 2020, Timothy was the founding editor of the Reporting Democracy investigative platform covering central and southeast Europe. He was also editor of cross-border projects at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, where he ran the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme.
Before that, he was editor-in-chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Reuters, where he built a team of Reuters journalists dedicated to covering under-reported stories for TRF’s global newswire (now the Context digital news platform). He was also head of the Foundation’s media development programmes, overseeing journalism training worldwide and independent news services in Egypt, Zimbabwe and Myanmar.
Previously, he was editor of the Reuters AlertNet global humanitarian news service, a Reuters correspondent in Tokyo and a feature writer for a Japanese daily.
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