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Roger Cohen returns to Paris

Friday 27 November 2020

Communication in a Time of Plague

Sunday 20 September 2020

O tempora, o mores

Sunday 23 April 2023

Fancy a holiday, darling?

Monday 9 November 2020

Foundation editor-in-chief to step down

Wednesday 24 March 2021

TASS and Reuters

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Uncharitable?

Saturday 12 February 2022

My brush with Mugabe's death squads

Wednesday 22 April 2020

Tough, indefatigable, loyal Rolf

Sunday 2 October 2022

Vietnam War haunts are now for dong millionaires

The bars of Saigon were home for two generations of war correspondents, the reporters who covered the French and American conflicts. They offered an essential interlude between forays out of the city to the battlefields of Vietnam. Some of them were hotel bars, others back street dives. The older ones, like the Continental and the Majestic, figured in novels of the French Indochina War, by writers such as Graham Greene and Jean Lartéguy. Later the Caravelle became the American media headquarters. One of the attractions of the most popular bars was their rooftop location: at times of crisis in the city they became vantage points for viewing the action. Now they are luxury leisure scenes for rich tourists.

Godfrey Hodgson

Friday 10 March 2023

David Nicholson

Saturday 8 August 2009

Symphony: movement in a major key

Tuesday 8 December 2015

Plagiarism

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Vanora Bennett

Thursday 4 December 2014

David Ure

Tuesday 4 March 2014

No room at the inn for the Diggerati

Monday 8 February 2016

Change for the better at Reuters

Thursday 26 July 2012

Belinda Goldsmith

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Making the best of it - Anthony Grey's China ordeal in the 'raw'

ANTHONY GREY - The Hostage Handbook: The Secret Diary of a Two-Year Ordeal in China - Tagman Press - 2009

Andrew Rashbass

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Remembering Graham Jenkins

Sunday 1 January 2017

'Greed and intrigue', but no villainy

JOHN LAWRENSON & LIONEL BARBER - The Price of Truth: The Story of the Reuters Millions - Mainstream Publishing - 1985, revised 1986

Fate and fortune: the state of Reuters

Monday 5 September 2016

Jon Henderson

Tuesday 6 October 2009

And the band plays on

Saturday 7 February 2015

'Duriaud'

Wednesday 22 January 2020

Bush, broccoli and me

Wednesday 5 December 2018

Reshaping the business of social change

Wednesday 10 April 2013

On being 'hired hacks of the Western bourgeoisie'

JOHN MILLER - All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening - Hodgson Press - 2010

Playing in the big leagues

Sunday 19 June 2011

My swim with Fidel

Wednesday 30 November 2016

Patrick Massey

Tuesday 17 March 2009

James Smith's vision

Friday 30 August 2013

Cuba editorial raises major charges

Friday 9 January 2015

Tom Glocer and Goldman Sachs

Saturday 1 May 2010

Gilbert Sedbon

Monday 27 June 2011

Ethics

Thursday 20 June 2013

Trainees

Tuesday 1 January 2013

85 Grub Street

Tuesday 24 September 2019

Killed correspondents

Monday 10 January 2011

Leaning back into the future

Sunday 2 June 2013

Post-Refinitiv dawn

Monday 3 December 2018

David Fox and Andrew Marshall

Thursday 28 April 2011

Lunch at Reuters

Friday 1 January 2010

On the train with Douglas Learmond

Wednesday 1 May 2019

Robert Eksuzyan

Sunday 25 September 2011

News

Obituary: Brendan Boyle

Tuesday 12 February 2019

Brendan Boyle (photo), who was Johannesburg bureau chief from 1997 to 2004, died in Cape Town on 10 February from cancer. He was 68.

Internet a basic human right - Tom Glocer

Thursday 17 March 2011

Internet access is a basic human right and government attempts to stop the free flow of information will fail dramatically, CEO Tom Glocer told a Middle East media conference.

Reuters CEO suggests US is still a question mark

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Reuters will continue to see growth in the United States but whether it can break through into a heartland dominated by the Associated Press and Bloomberg will be a big ask, Reuters chief executive Andrew Rashbass said in an indication the agency's focus there may have gone too far.

Reuters releases mobile game app with US presidential election theme

Wednesday 24 February 2016

Reuters has released its first game for the iPhone - a US presidential election simulation called White House Run.

Reuters names two multi-media 'mega-theme' editors

Friday 6 February 2015

Reuters announced the first two appointments in an editorial plan to improve multi-media coverage of cross-border "mega-themes" without adding staff.

Executive changes beginning of the end of turbulent period - new CEO

Friday 2 December 2011

Thomson Reuters' next chief executive James Smith, pictured, on Friday set out his priorities for the company when he takes over from Tom Glocer on 1 January and said Thursday's announcement was the beginning of the end of a turbulent period of executive changes.

Reuters fields huge team for Davos meeting

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Reuters is fielding what must be reckoned a record team, some of them pictured, to cover this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting, which begins today in Davos, Switzerland.

No interest in buying print media says Tom Glocer

Friday 6 November 2009

Tom Glocer has dismissed speculation that Thomson Reuters might buy a newspaper or magazine.

Silence in Reuters newsrooms marks Press Freedom Day

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Reuters newsrooms fell silent for one minute on Tuesday " World Press Freedom Day " to remember journalists killed in the pursuit of their profession.

FT awards Devin Wenig, ex-markets CEO, for jargon

Thursday 12 January 2012

Devin Wenig, the former markets division chief executive who left Thomson Reuters abruptly last July after slower than expected Q2 growth, has been named by the Financial Times as a winner of its annual jargon awards.

Shifty? Do they mean us?

Friday 12 June 2009

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Reuters, media giant. What can they mean? And then there's the theme, "Shifty Business".

Thomson Reuters leadership 'working more closely together'

Tuesday 18 March 2014

Thomson Reuters executive committee comprising the group's 16-strong leadership is working more closely together to align behind a new statement of purpose and corporate values recently outlined by CEO James Smith.

Foundation switches editorial direction to cover 'new frontier of human rights'

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Thomson Reuters' corporate Foundation is changing the focus of its news service to reflect new centres of interest in media freedom, inclusive economies and human rights.

Review of the year 2013

Sunday 22 December 2013

This year at Thomson Reuters was one of cost-cutting leading to re-organisation, restructuring and redundancies. Following are some highlights of developments reported on The Baron.

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.

Reuters aims to become best in the world - Stephen Adler

Friday 16 September 2011

Reuters wants to raise its profile, increase the impact of its journalism and be as influential in the United States as it is in the rest of the world.

Tom Glocer out as Thomson family appoints new CEO

Thursday 1 December 2011

Tom Glocer is stepping down and will be replaced as chief executive by chief operating officer James Smith on 1 January, Thomson Reuters said on Thursday. The change is happening more quickly than had been expected, indicating the Thomson family which owns 55 per cent of the company is taking tight control of its largest asset.

A Foundation for better things to come

Wednesday 17 April 2013

It started with a grant at a time when giving did not figure on the owners' agenda. Most of them were more interested in exploiting their stakes in what had become an increasingly valuable but tantalisingly illiquid asset. They wanted cash for their own individual business purposes.

Thomson Reuters takes a swing at Bloomberg with chat service tie-up

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Thomson Reuters opened up a new front in its battle with Bloomberg's dominant chat network for the financial services industry with a strategic partnership.

Thomson Reuters profit beats forecasts, sees 2009 revenue growth

Tuesday 24 February 2009

Thomson Reuters reported stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday and said it expected revenue to grow in 2009 despite job cuts and decreased spending among financial industry customers.

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.

Expect revenue growth in 2nd half, Tom Glocer tells shareholders

Friday 14 May 2010

Thomson Reuters has weathered the economic storm and expects to return to revenue growth in the second half of this year, CEO Tom Glocer said on Friday.

CEO Monique Villa to leave Thomson Reuters Foundation

Thursday 17 January 2019

Monique Villa (photo) is stepping down as chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Pay boom for Thomson Reuters executives

Thursday 2 April 2009

Six senior executives of Thomson Reuters have been given share awards that could be worth $61 million, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

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.

Thomson Reuters seeks Pentagon meeting over slayings

Tuesday 6 April 2010

Editor-in-chief David Schlesinger and chief executive Tom Glocer are seeking a meeting with the Pentagon to discuss the need to learn lessons from the killing of two Reuters staffers in Iraq.

Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith: 'We have turned the ship'

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Thomson Reuters is off to a solid start, chief executive James Smith said in a statement accompanying the group's first quarter results that showed performance consistent with full-year expectations.

Video released showing US Army's killing of Reuters news staff

Monday 5 April 2010

Graphic footage of the killing of two Reuters news staff by US forces in Baghdad three years ago was released in Washington on Monday.

$3 billion hit pushes Thomson Reuters into heavy loss

Thursday 9 February 2012

Thomson Reuters revealed a $3 billion charge on Thursday related to the declining value of its troubled financial services business, swinging the company to a steep quarterly operating loss.

Thomson Reuters' Q3 results better than expected

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Thomson Reuters reported stronger than expected third quarter results on Wednesday and said integration was ahead of plan. It affirmed its February forecast for 2008 revenue growth of six to eight per cent.

Thomson Reuters Q3 earnings beat estimates

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Thomson Reuters' third-quarter profit rose by 10 per cent, higher than expected, as strength in its professional division offset weakness in the markets business.

Thomson Reuters joins fight against human trafficking

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Thomson Reuters is linking up with two anti-slavery organisations to turn the power of data analytics onto corrupt labour brokers and people traffickers.

Analysts lift TRI targets but doubt cast on Q3 figures

Thursday 31 October 2013

Stock analysts raised their forecasts for Thomson Reuters shares following the third-quarter results announced this week, but a report in New York alleged the company was spinning the numbers.

Reuters' new word limits take effect - but there'll be exceptions

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Reuters reporters will be able to argue for exceptions to the agency's new word limits for news stories to help "avoid foolish consistency".

Thomson Reuters swings to loss in downbeat results

Wednesday 12 February 2014

Thomson Reuters reported worse-than-expected results on Wednesday, swinging to the merged group's first loss due to what it termed "headwinds" " costs of cutting 3,000 jobs, higher taxes, reductions in spending by financial customers in Europe and Asia and a weaker legal business in Latin America.

'Relentless' cost-cutting in downturn

Wednesday 22 October 2008

Thomson Reuters will cut costs relentlessly to deal with the global financial crisis but further redundancies are not foreseen, online reports said on Wednesday.

Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith's pay cut - report

Tuesday 29 April 2014

Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith's pay last year was reduced to $8.2 million from a total of $18.8 million in 2012, according to the London Evening Standard.

Obituary: Thomas Ingham

Sunday 20 June 2010

Thomas Ingham, who has died of cancer in Thailand, was an information technology linch-pin during a period of exponential growth at Reuters.

Obituary: Susan Zeidler

Thursday 28 September 2017

Former Reuters journalist Susan Zeidler (photo) died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. She was 58.

Reuters to beat Bloomberg out of global crisis - FT

Monday 27 April 2009

Reuters may fare better than Bloomberg in the current financial crisis, the Financial Times said on Monday.

Reuters picks up retrenched media columnist

Tuesday 6 September 2011

Reuters' latest high-profile recruit in an editorial hiring spree is a US columnist who was recently laid off as media critic of an online news, politics and culture magazine.

Rupert Murdoch saw Reuters as a rival to the WSJ

Monday 11 April 2011

Rupert Murdoch, a former Reuters director, gave high priority to competition with Reuters and other wire services when he acquired The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in 2007, according to The New Yorker.

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.

Hong Kong raider to target Refinitiv as a 'terminal acquisition' - report

Sunday 15 September 2019

Hong Kong's stock exchange will turn its fire on Refinitiv in an attempt to bear-hug the London Stock Exchange and win investor support for its hostile £32 billion takeover, The Sunday Times reported.

Severance costs weigh on Thomson Reuters Q1 earnings

Tuesday 30 April 2013

Thomson Reuters on Tuesday reported a seven per cent decline in first-quarter operating profit caused by severance costs and a decrease in revenue at its financial & risk division.

Focus on costs to maintain profitability - James Smith

Tuesday 31 July 2012

Thomson Reuters expects net sales to financial institutions to continue to decline for the rest of this year as conditions in Europe have deteriorated more than anticipated and major banks are still slashing costs.

Top Thomson Reuters executives set managers a new goal

Friday 25 January 2013

Thomson Reuters' executive committee headed by CEO James Smith has set a new job performance goal that will affect all of the group's 60,000 employees.

Reuters people most numerous in roll of slain journalists

Monday 22 November 2010

Twelve Reuters people " more than from any other news organisation " were named in a roll call of 48 who have died covering conflicts for the British media since 2000.

Obituary: Paul Iredale

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Paul Iredale (photo), who died after a long illness on Monday aged 66, was a larger-than-life figure whose postings during 27 years as a Reuters correspondent spanned Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Thomson Reuters Foundation news extends reach to Eikon

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Stories produced by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the expanding charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, now feature on Eikon screens, the foundation's editor-in-chief Belinda Goldsmith (photo) said in a statement.

'We've turned the ship' - Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith

Thursday 11 February 2016

Reuters owner Thomson Reuters reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and said it expects revenue to grow by low single digits this year.

Reuters dumps TASS

Wednesday 23 March 2022

Reuters said it had decided to remove all content by TASS from its business-to-business platform amid growing criticism of how Russia's state-owned news agency is portraying the war in Ukraine.

Obituary: Michael Arkus

Tuesday 2 August 2022

Michael Arkus (photo), who died of cancer in a New York hospital on Tuesday aged 86, was Reuters man in Havana in the 1960s when, "intent on avoiding work by spending hours every morning at the beach," he espied a familiar beard floating on the waters.

Obituary: John Miller

Thursday 21 January 2021

John Miller (photo), who has died at the age of 88, was a Reuter correspondent in Moscow and New York in the early 1960s before starting a long newspaper career and becoming over 30 years an almost permanent fixture in the Soviet capital's foreign press corps - and notably in Reuters Moscow bureau.

Obituary: Bernard Edinger

Saturday 25 June 2022

Bernard Edinger (photo), who died on Saturday in Paris aged 80, was what you might call the tribal Reuters correspondent.

Reuters' first 'op-ed' editor jumps ship

Friday 31 January 2014

Another of the high-profile editors who joined Reuters in a hiring spree aimed at raising the agency's commentary profile three years ago is leaving.

2,500 job cuts at Thomson Reuters this year

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Thomson Reuters is slashing 2,500 jobs, about four per cent of its 60,000 workforce, this year as it cuts costs and tries to turn around its largest division. Severance will cost $100 million this quarter.

Thomson Reuters deploys information as a weapon to fight slavery

Friday 27 November 2015

Thomson Reuters has unveiled a potential new weapon in the fight against modern day slavery - information.

Reuters journalists strike across the United States

Thursday 4 August 2022

Nearly 300 Reuters journalists in the United States staged a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest against a one per cent pay increase and what they said was "management's slow-walking contract renewal negotiations".

Journalists said to consider strike

Monday 12 May 2008

Thomson Reuters journalists, bracing for job cuts this week, are contemplating strike action over the way managers are slashing costs, The Guardian reported.

Reuters wins two Pulitzers, celebrations subdued

Tuesday 16 April 2019

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes, but celebrations were subdued while two of the winners, reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, remain imprisoned in Myanmar.

CPJ calls for Thai government action on slain TV cameraman

Thursday 29 July 2010

Lethal recklessness by security forces and protesters during political unrest in Bangkok led to the death of a Reuters cameraman shot whilst covering the violence, an investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.

Obituary: George Vine

Thursday 22 December 2016

George Vine, who has died aged 97, was a Reuters correspondent in Bonn during the Cold War who was arrested by East German secret police during a visit to East Berlin.

Asset manager looks to cut Bloomberg fees with cheaper terminals

Sunday 11 February 2024

Looking to slash costs, UK asset manager Abrdn is exploring cheaper alternatives to Bloomberg terminals, widely used in the investment industry, according to the Financial Times. As part of a drive to cut about £150 million, Abrdn was considering scaling back its Bloomberg terminal subscriptions and trialling an alternative from FactSet, the paper quoted two insiders as saying.

Obituary: Hugh Pain

Friday 26 February 2010

Hugh Pain, who as a correspondent survived an anti-tank mine explosion and sniper fire, died on Thursday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He was 69. His condition had deteriorated about three weeks ago.

Thomson Reuters returned to profit in Q4 but 2014 revenue was flat

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Thomson Reuters swung to a fourth-quarter profit in 2014 and the core financial and risk division posted its first net sales growth in six years.

Ibrahim Jassam: one year without justice

Wednesday 2 September 2009

Reuters marked a sorrowful anniversary on Wednesday - one year since US and Iraqi troops forcibly detained Iraqi journalist Ibrahim Jassam.

Shots fired in Thomson Reuters office in Poland - reports

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Shots were fired in a Thomson Reuters building in Gdynia, Poland (photo), on Tuesday evening, police said. No one was hurt.

Pearson denies FT is for sale - to Thomson Reuters or anyone

Friday 10 February 2012

The Financial Times is not for sale, its owner Pearson said on Friday in a sharp slap-down of a report that Thomson Reuters was in "clear discussions" to buy the newspaper.

Reuters reporters in France strike over job cuts

Tuesday 17 December 2019

Journalists working for Reuters in France have gone on strike over news pictures job cuts, six months after more than half of French language service staff were laid off.

Reuters data centre slated for shutdown could close by end-2016 or later

Wednesday 24 September 2014

The Reuters data centre in New York, already earmarked for closure, could shut within two years or remain open for years more.

Events

The Reuter Society

Thursday 16 June 2016 – Thursday 16 June 2016

Speaker: Stephen Grey, prize-winning journalist and author specialising in security, espionage and conflict issues. He will be talking on the theme of his latest book, 'The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror'. Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage off Fleet Street, London.

The Reuter Society

Tuesday 3 March 2015 – Tuesday 3 March 2015

Speaker Alan Philps, editor, Chatham House The World Today magazine, on the theme: Don't let the truth get in the way: a Reuter trainee adrift in newspaper-land. Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage off Fleet Street, London

The Reuter Society

Thursday 19 June 2014 – Thursday 19 June 2014

Speaker: Björn Edlund on the theme "Summertime and the subbin' is easy. Hartzman's tasting, and the Horseman is Cy. What I learned at Reuters and UPI". Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage off Fleet Street, London

The Reuter Society AGM

Thursday 7 December 2017 – Thursday 7 December 2017

Speaker Alan Cowell on the theme: Fake News and how reporters risk falling in to Trump's trap. Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage off Fleet Street, London.

The Reuter Society AGM

Thursday 1 December 2016 – Thursday 1 December 2016

Speaker Jonathan Fitzgerald on the theme: Selling the Baron on three continents (not to mention the odd lunch). Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage off Fleet Street, London.

The Reuter Society

Wednesday 11 October 2017 – Wednesday 11 October 2017

Speaker Tim Heritage on the theme: Reporting from Moscow. Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute, St Bride's Passage, off Fleet Street, London.