His father, Norman, was a high school English department chairman, and his mother, Mildred, was a writer and social worker.
[1] He began his career as a reporter for Tampa Times and Tallahassee Democrat.
[2] He joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as senior vice president and editorial director of the company's Professional Division.
[5] Adler is chairman of the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and is a member of the boards of the Columbia Journalism Review and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
[2] With his wife, novelist Lisa Grunwald, he was co-editor of Letters of the Century: America 1900—1999, Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present,[2][6] and The Marriage Book.