Thomson Reuters
The Knowledge Effect
Thursday 27 January 2011
Knowledge Effect – nice idea, but oh dear. The texts of the samples are prosaic and full of cumbersome phrases. The deadpan narrators sound as if they are reading them for the first time. It comes across as such a boring business. Can't believe it really is.
Marcus Ferrar
Marcus Ferrar
Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh
Sunday 18 April 2010
I am told that many people have found Reuters response to the murder of two Reuters staff shown in the video recently released by the website WikiLeaks to have been surprisingly low key and are keen to understand what might have motivated such a response and why Reuters current statement is so inadequate. I cannot answer that, never having worked with Thomson Reuters, a very different company from Reuters, nor with the individuals at the head of Thomson Reuters. Much has changed since my day, one may have to look for the reasons there. The company is now largely owned by a Canadian shareholder whose heartbeat is seemingly governed by money, not by news nor news people. The CEO and the Editor-in-Chief are American, but I would not speculate how far that might motivate them to refrain from irritating the Washington regime. I could see no direct link. The CEO is a lawyer, not a journalist. The new company is headquartered in New York. I left it to my interlocutor to speculate herself. I could offer no insight, indeed I would like to know the answers myself.
Michael Reupke
Michael Reupke
Thomson Reuters and ethics
Sunday 04 April 2010
It’s a striking headline [● Thomson Reuters again rated one of the world's most ethical companies], a purpose beyond just making money, Reuters, a great name, wonder why they had to add Thomson to it? The founder used two pigeons per message for reliability, which set the path that Reuters took in its editorial and later in its real-time information approach. “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” – George Orwell. In this world of Ponzi schemes, bursting IT and Housing bubbles and complex instruments deliberately created for swindlers to exploit them, the truth has fallen for the most sought out commodity “MONEY”, and where money and profit is involved, truth and ethics somehow tend to pay the price. It seems that at Thomson Reuters the pen is still mightier than the sword.
Zaid Rashdan
Zaid Rashdan
Thomson Reuters' share structure
Wednesday 22 July 2009
I hope I can set a predecessor's mind at ease: when Thomson Reuters was created, it was created as a dual listed company. Thomson Reuters Corp is domiciled in Toronto and Thomson Reuters PLC has been in London. There has been one Reuters Founders Share in each of the two companies. Obviously if one of the two companies in the dual structure goes away so too will its founders share, but the other remains. I can assure all that from my perspective as Editor-in-Chief, the current Reuters Founders Share Company directors take a vigorous and active interest in the company and in editorial. That interest and engagement has, if anything, increased in the months before and after the consummation of the deal, particularly if I compare it to, say, a decade earlier.
David Schlesinger
David Schlesinger
Thomson Reuters' share structure
Tuesday 21 July 2009
There is a very interesting and immensely important statement in the management information circular about the changing share structure of Thomson Reuters. That statement is: “Thomson Reuters will seek to redeem and cancel the Reuters Founders share in the capital of Thomson Reuters PLC.” That share is the only tool the directors of the Founders Share Company, whom we used to refer to as the trustees, have to do anything whatever.
Michael Reupke
Michael Reupke
Thomson Reuters
Friday 29 August 2008
I see that the moniker 'Thomson Reuters' is being used on the stories sent out by Reuters. I wonder whether the name Reuters will have been replaced by Thomson alone in a few years time. Or am I being pessimistic?
Neil Campbell
Neil Campbell
