Reuters war record

Reuters extensive coverage of the Ukraine war has brought record-breaking use of its pictures and video content by publishers and TV stations around the world. 

The 170-year-old news agency has a distinguished war record. On 6 June 1944 Reuters was first with news of the Allied landings in Normandy, beating AP by 5 minutes and United Press by 2. Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker after hearing a Reuter report that Himmler, his Gestapo chief, was negotiating surrender.

In Vietnam, Reuters broke the news in 1968 that Hanoi was ready to negotiate an end to the war and ran this advertising campaign in the US: “You waited 21 minutes to learn that Ho Chi Minh wanted to talk peace … unless you bought the Reuters service.”

In 2018 Reuters won a Pulitzer prize for its coverage of President Duterte’s war on drugs in the Philippines.

Does it take a war to make Reuters great again?

Photo: Ukraine’s civilians caught in the crossfire of war ■