In an announcement today, the international news agency said the newly-created role will see Freeland take editorial control of the company's consumer online, mobile and digital properties.
The new role will include management of a team which will select, customise, assign and produce text and multimedia content available via Reuters.com, its other websites and apps.
Freeland joined the company last year as Reuters' global editor-at-large, following a role as US managing editor of the Financial Times.
She joined the FT in 1994 as UK news editor and later became Moscow bureau chief and correspondent for Eastern Europe.
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