Reuters strengths

The message from Andrew Rashbass [Reuters cancels web project, to develop Reuters.com] appears to be refreshingly clear and full of common sense.

To stress that there is a need to capitalise Reuters’ strengths including “a constant stream of high quality, real-time news” and the importance of local language news services may seem obvious to some but appeared to have been overlooked, if not lost, in recent years. And good, well-respected local language services will bring important two-way benefits to international and local language subscribers. ■