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Scribe's journey: 'Street of Shame' to Berlin Wall

Monday 17 April 2023

A great chair, a true gentleman

Monday 27 February 2023

The bon vivant internationalist

Friday 24 February 2023

Common sense

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Anniversaries

April

Paul Julius Reuter starts news and price service with pigeons

Paul Julius Reuter started his first news and stock price information service between Brussels and Aachen, Germany on 28 April 1850. He used 45 trained carrier pigeons provided by an Aachen brewer, baker and pigeon breeder.

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The Reuter Society

The Baron's Briefings

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Next Baron's Briefing: Brian Cathcart

Thursday 18 April 2024 5:00 PM

Brian Cathcart, press reform campaigner and former Reuters correspondent, will be giving an online talk on Thursday 18 April 2024 at 5pm BST (London time) entitled: UK journalism is in trouble: what can be done to save it? Journalism has a simple job: providing citizens with information they can rely on and use. In the UK, for some understandable reasons and some very bad ones, it is currently doing that job very badly. Brian Cathcart will dissect the problems and examine what can be done to make things better, both in the short term " by the next election " and the long. To get the Zoom link, email baronsbriefing@gmail.com, stating your connection to Reuters or Thomson Reuters.

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