Beat on Ranieri becoming AS Roma manager is highlight of soccer transfer window coverage

Smart reporting by Italian reporters gave Reuters a great beat on former Chelsea and Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri’s move to run top Italian club AS Roma. The story on August 31, the last day of the European soccer transfer window, was the highlight of a run of great reporting that won praise from major clients. Reporters tracked down Ranieri’s lawyer and called him just as he left a meeting with AS Roma officials where he had sealed the deal. It took Italian national news agency ANSA 15 minutes to match the story. Reuters reporters were also ahead on transfer news from Manchester City and CSKA Sofia as clubs engaged in a flurry of last-minute deal-making.