Arlene Getz, Third Vice President

Arlene Getz

Arlene Getz is Editor in Charge, Media at Thomson Reuters in New York. Prior to this position she was Editorial Director for Newsweek’s Worldwide Special Editions. In that capacity, she was in charge of editorial cooperation between Newsweek International and its expanding network of local-language editions in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Prior to taking up this post, Arlene served as Senior Editorial Manager on Newsweek.com, where she oversaw its daily domestic, foreign and political editorial coverage. Arlene joined the website in 1998 and played a key role in Newsweek.com’s transition from an online publication of just a few bite-sized news nuggets a day to a daily site. Her previous positions include serving as the Deputy Editor and Foreign Editor of the site, working to reinvent the international section and expanding the site’s non-U.S. news coverage. She also wrote on political and international news and edited the site’s award-winning online sections on the attacks on September 11, 2001, the Iraq war, the U.S. presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004 and the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Arlene began reporting for Newsweek magazine from South Africa where she covered apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela and its transition to democracy. She has served as a foreign correspondent for Gemini News Service of London, St. Petersburg Times of Florida and the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia.

She has degrees in journalism and law, and was a Visiting Press Fellow at Cambridge University, England. Her honors include Front Page Awards in 2002 and 2003 for her online news coverage of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath.

She has served as a judge for fellowship programs run by the International Reporting Project and the OPC. She was elected as a first vice president of the OPC in 2008 and chaired the committee judging the OPC Awards for 2009.