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Leaning back into the future

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Leaning back into the future

Friday 31 May 2013

Principles and power: an inquiry

Friday 18 October 2013

Promoting the Reuters brand

Monday 5 February 2024

Eyes on the prize

Sunday 22 April 2012

Changing journalism; changing Reuters

Friday 15 October 2010

Linked economy and journalism

Friday 23 July 2010

The Baron: rejuvenation

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Be careful what you tweet

Monday 15 August 2011

Working for Reuters

Friday 10 April 2015

EiC questions

Tuesday 20 April 2021

'Pursue the truth'

Wednesday 5 June 2019

Michael Arkus, Reuters legend

Wednesday 3 August 2022

Ethics

Saturday 9 November 2013

Sponsored content: a slippery slope

Wednesday 30 January 2019

Albanian firsts

Wednesday 30 December 2020

Fate and fortune: the state of Reuters

Monday 5 September 2016

Robert Eksuzyan

Sunday 25 September 2011

Trustees finally find a voice

Monday 16 December 2019

Odile Leroux

Friday 13 December 2013

Thomson Reuters

Monday 4 April 2011

Cuba editorial raises major charges

Friday 9 January 2015

Reuters cuts

Thursday 3 October 2013

Suing for Silence: Thiel v. Gawker

Thursday 2 June 2016

Brian Mooney honoured by King Charles

Monday 15 January 2024

Rasputin and Reuters

Thursday 12 January 2017

Drama on my doorstep

Sunday 10 September 2017

Geneva jaunt

Saturday 2 May 2009

News

Reuters' climate change coverage halved under new editor

Tuesday 23 July 2013

Reuters' climate change coverage declined by nearly half after managing editor Paul Ingrassia, pictured, a climate change sceptic, joined the agency, a US study of the Reuters file showed on Tuesday.

China refuses visa for Reuters reporter

Saturday 9 November 2013

The Chinese government has refused to issue a visa to a veteran American journalist who had been waiting eight months to begin a new reporting job in China for Reuters.

Guardian to Reuters: Sorry for editing mistake

Friday 12 October 2012

In a case reminiscent of the legendary Fleet Street newspaper reporter's trick of filing such stories as "I stood among the battle-scarred ruins of (pick up agencies)", The Guardian has apologised to Reuters for an editing mistake that raised an allegation of plagiarism.

Fewer Reuters articles about human rights in China, says US writers group

Saturday 24 September 2016

Reuters has tightened its reporting standards in a way that has led to fewer news articles about human rights in China, the writers' group PEN America said.

Reuters plans to put many articles behind a paywall

Friday 3 July 2020

Reuters will put many of its articles behind a subscription paywall and redesign its homepage to highlight digital advertising.

Kurt Schork award winners honoured in London

Thursday 25 November 2010

Winners of the ninth annual Kurt Schork awards in international journalism were honoured on Wednesday in a ceremony at the London offices of Thomson Reuters.

US, Mexican journalists win Kurt Schork awards

Saturday 29 September 2012

Reports on the Libyan conflict and Mexico's drugs trade won this year's Kurt Schork awards in international journalism.

Barry Moody is the new Editor of The Baron

Thursday 21 March 2024

Barry Moody has been named as the new Editor of the Baron, taking the helm after founder Barry May stepped back to deal with health problems.

Reuters climate change coverage 'worsened' - study

Thursday 27 February 2014

Reuters coverage of climate change issues has worsened in the past six months and continues to decline, according to a new analysis by US pressure group Media Matters for America.

News and the Twitter-ization of Reuters

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Reuters, in the latest version of its website Reuters.com, pictured, has been Twitter-ized. With the concept of a minute-by-minute stream of news deep in its DNA, it has built a modern river of news, the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University said in an article on the new site's preview pages launched recently.

Layoffs at Thomson Reuters largely designated, staff told

Friday 15 February 2013

Layoffs at Thomson Reuters " 2,500 or four per cent of the 60,000 workforce this year " disclosed in a presentation to analysts on the latest financial results this week have largely already been designated, according to a discussion on the company's internal communications system.

Stephen Adler praises Middle East team for Pulitzer recognition

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, pictured, on Tuesday lauded Reuters' Middle East team involved in coverage of Libya, finalists in this year's Pulitzer Prizes. In a message to top Thomson Reuters executives, he said: "This recognition marks the first time Reuters has been a finalist in the Pulitzers for text journalism in the 95-year history of the award, according to the Pulitzer Prize office."

Breakingviews 'well defined and curated; seldom snarky'

Saturday 15 March 2014

Reuters' commentary service Breakingviews supports the broader editorial mission and complements the breaking news, deeply-reported enterprise stories and video journalism that the news agency produces, says its editor-in-chief Rob Cox (photo).

Obituary: Robert Eksuzyan

Saturday 24 September 2011

Robert Eksuzyan, pictured, who died in his homeland of Abkhazia on Saturday at the age of 81, served Reuters for more than 40 years as a translator and indefatigable fixer in Moscow bureau, from the Soviet period of Brezhnev, through Gorbachev's Perestroika, the chaos of Yeltsin's years to Putin's Russia of today. Over that period he became the bureau's historical memory.

Commentary service ends probe into staff share trading

Monday 25 October 2010

Reuters Breakingviews, the financial commentary service in the spotlight over its columnists' potential conflicts of interest, has concluded its investigation and Reuters as a whole is reviewing its own procedures and training to minimise the chance of anything like it recurring, the editor of the service said on Monday.

Big Issue global network seeks ex-Reuters journalists

Saturday 22 January 2011

A web-based news interchange which links 115 Big Issue-type newspapers in 40 countries is seeking volunteer editors and correspondents with an international background to help select and create news and features of wide interest for global distribution and to help develop the network.

Reuters editor-in-chief to step down

Wednesday 6 January 2021

Stephen Adler (photo), editor-in-chief of Reuters for the past ten years, will retire in three months' time.

Reuters to expand opinion offering

Thursday 15 September 2011

Reuters is substantially increasing the volume of its opinion articles and wants to offer commentary on all sorts of issues and news stories as part of an effort to make it more than just a wire service, one of its new editors said in an interview.

Obituary: Stephen Brown

Friday 19 March 2021

Stephen Brown (photo), a multilingual former Reuters correspondent who reported widely from Europe and South America for more than a quarter century, died of a heart attack on Thursday. He was 57.

Foundation rebuts LGBT+ reporting allegation

Monday 21 August 2023

The Thomson Reuters Foundation on Monday rebutted a published allegation that its CEO intervened to prevent an editor seeing an LGBT+ group on which it reports, thus calling impartiality into question.

Police drop sources order

Tuesday 20 September 2011

Police dropped an attempt to force The Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories related to Britain's phone-hacking scandal. Leading newspaper editors earlier roundly condemned the bid at a Thomson Reuters event at which the regulation of the press was debated.

Obituary: John Chadwick

Saturday 7 May 2022

John Chadwick (photo), who has died aged 92, was the first Reuters correspondent to lead both the Cairo and Tel Aviv bureaux.

Refinitiv hit by third outage since April

Monday 2 August 2021

Refinitiv's Eikon news and data terminal experienced an outage of several hours on Monday, the company said.

Talk of Stephen Adler's exit revived in London

Friday 7 February 2014

Renewed speculation that Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, pictured, could be on the move has surfaced in London. It would be part of a back-to-basics move by chief executive Andrew Rashbass to better serve investment banking and broking clients, the Evening Standard reported.

Reuters releases new-look apps for iPad, iPhone

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Reuters launched new versions of its applications for Apple's iPad and iPhone on Wednesday and offered a sneak preview of its re-designed Reuters.com website due to be rolled out this spring.

Reuters reduces Chinese news site, redeploys staff

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Reuters is scaling down its Chinese-language news website and redeploying some staff in Beijing.

Thomson Reuters Foundation partners The Baron

Thursday 11 August 2011

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has selected The Baron as a content partner for its TrustMedia news website.

Reuters columnist quits after 'multiple breaches' of trading code

Monday 18 October 2010

A columnist at Reuters Breakingviews has resigned after multiple breaches of the Thomson Reuters code of conduct on share dealing and cases involving other commentators are being investigated.

Thomson Reuters Foundation pulls contested story, launches investigation

Sunday 17 December 2017

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched an investigation into a feature story about immigration issues in New York after editors were alerted to similarities with an article that had been published by another news outlet.

Obituary: Chris Matthews

Monday 28 November 2022

Chris Matthews (photo), who has died in Italy at the age of 79, was a gifted writer and editor and one of Reuters most unorthodox bureau chiefs.

News ethics light shines on paid Reuters article

Friday 25 January 2019

A report on Reuters' website raises questions about the ethics of paid stories that look and feel like journalism and on news providers' broader relationships with governments, Columbia Journalism Review said.

Editors choose finalists for 2015 Kurt Schork awards

Wednesday 1 July 2015

Finalists in the 2015 Kurt Schork Memorial Fund awards in international journalism have been selected from a dozen countries.

Trustees 'incensed' at Refinitiv censorship of Reuters in China

Thursday 12 December 2019

Refinitiv censorship of Reuters stories in China has angered top executives of Reuters and directors of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company who are "incensed" and have complained to Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith.

Chrystia Freeland 'hastened Reuters Next's demise'

Thursday 26 September 2013

Chrystia Freeland, who quit suddenly in July as Reuters' managing director and editor, consumer news, to launch a political career, was both the motivating force behind the agency's ambitious digital revamp and one of the primary reasons it was killed, according to current and former employees.

Bloomberg bags first Pulitzer, Reuters a finalist in two categories

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Bloomberg has won its first Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about corporate tax avoidance by reporter Zachary Mider.

Reuters launches Insider - 'YouTube for traders'

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Thomson Reuters on Tuesday launched an online interactive financial video service, Reuters Insider - dubbed "YouTube for traders".

Thomson Reuters launches new iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry apps

Saturday 11 April 2009

Thomson Reuters launched new applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry mobile devices and plans to charge for its content on smartphones.

FT man joins Reuters as commentary editor, banking chief

Tuesday 14 April 2009

The Financial Times' banking editor, Peter Thal Larsen, is leaving after 10 years to join Reuters' commentary service.

Sports deal 'blurs the line' between sponsored content and news

Saturday 2 April 2016

First politics, now sports - paid content is grabbing more space and getting more attention on Reuters news platforms.

Has Reuters given up on news?

Tuesday 23 September 2008

Has Reuters given up on news? At least one online commentator thinks so following an announcement that Reuters is asking users of a virtual prediction website what will happen before the event itself.

CNN fires ex-Reuters trainee for plagiarism

Friday 16 May 2014

CNN announced it fired a news editor in its London bureau - a former Reuters graduate trainee - for repeated plagiarism. Most of the plagiarised material came from Reuters.

Obituary: Michael Rank

Sunday 21 May 2017

Michael Rank (photo), formerly a Reuters correspondent in Beijing, died on Saturday after a long struggle with cancer.

Banks blacklist ex-Reuters journalist jailed by China

Saturday 5 November 2016

Peter Humphrey (photo), former Reuters journalist turned private investigator who was jailed in China after GlaxoSmithKline's bribery scandal, has been blacklisted by banks on his return to the UK.

Rothschild investment maxim vexes some Thomson Reuters staff

Sunday 28 September 2014

Staff at Thomson Reuters have complained about an analysis of one of the world's largest arms makers that appeared in an investment service published by the company.

Facebook, Twitter and the Trust Principles: a guide

Wednesday 3 June 2009

Reuters is developing guidelines for how its journalists interact with social media like Facebook and Twitter. The Trust Principles, drafted in 1941, are at the heart of the rules for the new 21st century media.

Thomson Reuters to launch video news service in June

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Thomson Reuters will launch a video news service in June for financial professionals who use its terminals, part of a $1 billion plan to appeal to a new generation of customers.

David Schlesinger: What I want from the Pentagon

Wednesday 21 April 2010

David Schlesinger on Wednesday demanded justice for journalists killed covering war and called for acknowledgment, transparency and accountability from the Pentagon.

RIP Reuters Ltd. Hail Refinitiv Ltd

Monday 25 February 2019

Reuters Limited, forged a century ago amid global war and corporate turmoil, is being terminated.

Tom Glocer 'going hard' after Bloomberg

Monday 23 June 2008

Thomson Reuters is going hard after Bloomberg, long the marquee name on Wall Street for financial information. "For a long time, Bloomberg had it too easy," CEO Tom Glocer said in an interview with The New York Times.

Obituary: Alexander Chancellor

Saturday 28 January 2017

Alexander Chancellor (photo), who died on Saturday aged 77, was the son of a general manager of Reuters who himself became a Reuters correspondent before a series of senior editorships with publications in Britain and the United States.

CNN drops AP, resumes using Reuters

Monday 21 June 2010

CNN dropped The Associated Press on Monday and said it would use more of its own resources to cover breaking news and features, supplemented by Reuters.

Obituary: Mary Powers

Thursday 15 January 2009

Mary Powers, 54, former correspondent in Lima and desk editor in New York, died at home in Boston, Massachusetts on 9 January after a long illness.

Reuters increases editorial content automation

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Reuters is to use automation technology to produce ready-to-publish digital videos as soon as relevant pictures, text and graphics are available.

Reuters reporters refused bail in Myanmar

Thursday 1 February 2018

Bail for two Reuters journalists accused of violating Myanmar's Official Secrets Act was rejected by a court on Thursday.

Obituary: Reg Potterton

Thursday 6 July 2017

Reg Potterton (photo), one-time Reuters correspondent and a feature writer for Playboy magazine in its heyday, has died at the age of 81. He ghosted travel articles for the novelist Len Deighton in the 1960s and then wrote them under his own byline.

Shares 'tale of two cities' - Tom Glocer

Tuesday 12 August 2008

Thomson Reuters is looking into ways of reducing the widening discount in its share price on opposite sides of the Atlantic, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Japanese company loses in defamation case against Reuters

Friday 21 July 2017

Japan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Universal Entertainment to hear its defamation case against Reuters, upholding two lower court rulings that its case lacked merit.