Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh

Since 1984 Reuters PLC was motivated to provide shareholder value and not just governed by news or news people as Michael Reupke implies. It was then headed by a non journalist Australian CEO and an English Editor-in-Chief (Michael Reupke). Thereafter, by an English CEO and a Dutch Editor-in-Chief. Would any of these two preceding tandems have reacted differently? They probably might have, simply because they were different. Would their reactions have been "better" or "more appropriate"? We can only be left to speculate. ■