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Sunday 3 November 2024

  • Courtney Tower, a Canadian journalist who served on the Reuters North American Desk in London and as a correspondent in Asia, died suddenly on Oct. 24. He was 92.
  • Sebastian Alison, 63, a former Reuters correspondent in Moscow, Almaty and Brussels, who also had stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, died in London on September 20, 2024, after a battle with cancer.  

  • Ken Barry, former reporter and editor in the New York and Washington newsrooms, died on August 19, 2024, from complications of pneumonia.

  • Keith Hylands, a business analyst in the Real Time Data Feeds group based in London, died on July 5, 2024. Keith, who was born in 1948, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June.

  • David Graves, 76, senior vice president at Reuters New Media and later head of Reuters global media services, died on July 30, 2024, at his home in Weston, Massachusetts, from pancreatic cancer. 

  • Joe Joyce, 76, former Dublin correspondent and stringer, died on June 6, 2024 after a long illness. 

  • Barry May, 80, founder of The Baron, former bureau chief, correspondent, editor and manager, died on June 1, 2024 from cancer.  

  • Benjamin Kang Lim, 65,  former bureau chief in Taipei and Beijing, died on May 21, 2024, in Beijing of pancreatitis.

  • Peter Bild, 80, Reuters first international energy correspondent, died on May 13, 2024, from complications after vascular surgery. 

  •  Christopher Wilkinson, former Office Communications Manager, Reuters Europe, died on 21 February 2024, aged 87.

  • Ian Lennox, 67, former technical sales executive and trainer in London, Bahrain and the Far East, died on 28th April 2024 in Poole, Dorset from cancer and Parkinson's disease. 

  • Tony Licata, 84, former Reuters commodities editor, died of cancer in Chicago in March 2024.

  • Manfred Pagel, 86, former Reuters editor, died after a long illness on 31 January 2024.

  • Brian Lawley, 82, Reuters regional manager in the Middle East and elsewhere, died in London after a long illness on 5 September 2023.

  • Patrick Hamilton, 74, formerly Reuters chief photographer for Mexico and Central America, died of lung cancer at home in San Antonio, Texas on 13 August 2023.

  • Sumeet Desai, 52, a Reuters correspondent in London from the early 1990s to 2011, died in July 2023.

  • David Cemlyn-Jones, 81, former correspondent, died in July 2023.

  • Irina Demchenko, 66, former head of Reuters Russian language service in Moscow, died in London on 1 May 2023.

  • Ian MacKenzie, 81, former bureau chief and editor, died of severe sepsis at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 28 April 2023.

  • Dan McKillen, formerly head of the health division’s sales team before being appointed division CEO, died of cancer on 27 March 2023.

  • Brian Barcus, 58, a software developer for the Elektron/Refinitiv Real Time pricing data feed collections platform based in St Louis, Missouri died at home on 11 March 2023.

  • André Villeneuve, 78, formerly a Reuters executive and board director, died of pancreatic cancer on 18 February 2023.

  • Paul Tate, 66, a software engineer who worked on the Reuter Monitor, died at home on 9 February 2023 after a short illness.

  • Peter Millar, 67, a graduate trainee who became a Reuters correspondent in Brussels, East Berlin and Soviet bloc centres including Warsaw and Moscow, died of a stroke on 21 January 2023.

  • Muharem Osmanagic, 62, a former Reuters TV cameraman in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, died of cancer in hospital on 19 January 2023.

  • Pawel Sobczak, 53, formerly a Reuters political reporter in Warsaw, died suddenly on 16 January 2023.

  • Derek Blackman, 87, former correspondent and manager, died at home in Jamestown, Rhode Island on 2 January 2023.

  • Calvin Mankowski, 81, formerly a financial news editor in New York, died on 31 December 2022.

  • Adam Kellett-Long, 87, former Reuters correspondent and manager, died in hospital after a short illness on 18 December 2022.

  • Terry Williams, 81, former correspondent, desk editor and sports expert during a three-decades Reuters career, died at his home in France on 16 December 2022.

  • Paul Tanner, 64, who joined Reuters in 1987 with the acquisition of Finsbury Data Services and took early retirement in 2008 due to ill-health, died from Parkinson’s Disease on 3 November 2022.

  • Alfred Pascoe, 82, operations manager, London Data Centre until 1997, died on 26 October 2022.

  • Chris Matthews, 79, former bureau chief, died from a brain tumour in Italy in October 2022.

  • Rolf Söderlind, 72, former correspondent and internal communications executive, died on 30 September 2022.

  • Samuel Burgess, 106, who went from messenger boy to press telegraphist during 49 years with Reuters in London, died on 16 September 2022.

  • Ibrahim Noori, 92, a Reuters correspondent in the Middle East for many years, died in London on 15 September 2022.

  • David Witchell, 74, a former business manager in Europe and Asia, died on 13 August 2022.

  • Claude Salhani, 70, formerly a Reuters photo-journalist, died at home in Paris after a prolonged illness on 13 August 2022.

  • Rawhi Abeidoh, former bureau chief, died in Turkey after several years of poor health on 13 August 2022.

  • John Chiahemen, 72, a former bureau chief, died of congenital heart disease in South Africa on 9 August 2022.

  • David Barnett, 90, an Australian journalist who worked for Reuters briefly more than half a century ago, died in hospital in Canberra on 6 August 2022.

  • Michael Arkus, 86, a Reuters journalist for four decades from the 1960s, died of cancer in a New York hospice on 2 August 2022.

  • David Skinner, 81, a Reuters correspondent in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London and Sydney from the mid-1970s, died in hospital after a fall on 31 July 2022.

  • Leonard Ryan, 83, a former technical manager, died in Australia on 28 July 2022.

  • Tsegaye Tadesse, 92, Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia for nearly 35 years from 1975, died on 1 July 2022.
  • Charles "Charlie" Aldinger, 84, a Reuters correspondent who rose to become dean of the Pentagon press corps, died at home in Washington following hospitalisation with heart problems on 27 June 2022.
  • Bernard Edinger, 80, a Reuters correspondent from 1969 to 2001, died of leukemia in Paris on 25 June 2022.
  • Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, 80, chairman of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company from 2013 to 2017 and previously foreign minister of Denmark, died on 19 June 2022.

  • David Kaye, 82, a computer engineer responsible for editorial systems, head office communications, exchange dealing, satellite-based data network and other projects during a Reuters career from 1969 to 1991, died of complications arising from Parkinson’s Disease on 17 June 2022.

  • José García Alegre, 91, former manager of Reuters Spain, died in Madrid in May 2022.

  • Jan ‘Johnny' Krcmar, 89, a correspondent in Eastern Europe during the last three decades of the Cold War, died in Vienna on 30 April 2022.

  • John Chadwick, 92, a Reuters correspondent and editor from 1957 to 1991, died on 28 April 2022.

  • Claire Rosemberg, 73, former Paris correspondent, died of cancer in Paris surrounded by family and friends on 12 April 2022.

  • Graeme Ramsey, 59, global head of content acquisition and rights management at the end of a 32-year career with Reuters and Thomson Reuters, died on 6 March 2022.
  • Doris Frankel, 75, a markets reporter in New York and Chicago who retired in 2013, died in January 2022.
  • Kari Howard, 59, a Reuters storytelling editor in London, died of cancer on 10 January 2022.
  • Sir Christopher Hogg, 85, Reuters chairman from 1985 to 2004, died from complications of surgery on 7 December 2021.
  • Pencho Shishmanov, 64, former Reuters logistics executive in the Balkans, died of cancer on 27 November 2021.
  • Prapan Chankaew, a Reuters videojournalist in Asia for 34 years, died in Bangkok on 13 December 2021.
  • Ron Owens, 75, former Reuters marketing executive, died in Geneva as a result of COVID-19 complications in November 2021.
  • Jesus “Jess” Malabanan, 58, a newspaper reporter in the Philippines who, as a stringer, helped Reuters on ‘war on drugs” stories that won a Pulitzer Prize, died after being shot in the city of Calbayog, Samar province, on 8 December 2021.
  • Ronald Gladman, 80, former Reuters group legal adviser, died on 2 November 2021.
  • Rafael Morfin, 61, a Reuters accountant in Mexico City, Miami and Washington for about 20 years until joining The Washington Post in 2009, died of cancer in a US hospice on 27 October 2021.
  • Robert Trautman, 90, a correspondent in Washington and London from 1967 to 1997, died on 4 September 2021.
  • Eileen “Inga” Nicoll, 91, formerly Reuters chief librarian, died on 1 September 2021 after a stroke.
  • Roger Jeal, 72, a business journalist and commodities specialist from 1973 to 2000, died of cancer on 1 September 2021. 
  • Jim Brumm, 82, a journalist on Reuters energy and equities desks in New York from 1972 to 1973 and 1979 to 2001, died on 1 August 2021.
  • Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist based in New Delhi, was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan on 16 July 2021.
  • Todd Eastham, 68, an editor on the Americas Desk in Washington from 2000 to 2013, died on 26 June 2021.
  • Carlos Alberto Pontes, who started working at 14 and was a journalist with Reuters for more than 58 years, believed to be a record, died on 11 June 2021.
  • Nicholas Moore, 79, former correspondent and editor, died on 30 April 2021.
  • Rashid Sinno, 83, formerly a Reuters journalist in Beirut for 35 years, died on 19 April 2021.
  • Jonathan Fryer, 70, formerly a graduate trainee journalist in London and Brussels, died of a brain tumour in a London hospice on 16 April 2021.
  • Penny Watson, 71, a secretary at Reuters in London from 1969 to 1979, died after a short illness on 15 April 2021.
  • William Lupien, 79, former CEO of Instinet acquired by Reuters in 1987, died of cancer on 15 April 2021.
  • William Ogston, 87, formerly group pensions manager at Reuters, died on 16 April 2021.
  • John Bland, 90, a Reuters correspondent from 1959 to 1972 who worked in Havana where he interviewed Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Trinidad, Mexico City, Barbados and Bonn, died on 11 April 2021.
  • Sean Milmo, 77, a former sub-editor on Reuters World Desk in the late 1960s and 1970s, died after a short illness in April 2021.
  • Larry King, 69, an editor in London for Reuters Global News Desk, died suddenly at home in April 2021.
  • Zaid Rashdan, 64, former Reuters general manager in the Middle East and North Africa, died in Amman on 8 March 2021.
  • Stephen Brown, 57, a former Reuters correspondent who reported widely from Europe and South America for more than a quarter century, died in Brussels of a heart attack on 18 March 2021.
  • Victor Antonie, 59, chief producer for news and editorial in Africa for Reuters TV and Pictures, died suddenly in Johannesburg on 4 March 2021.
  • Claude Regin, 77, a former Reuters correspondent in Havana, Lima, Buenos Aires, Abidjan and Geneva, died in Paris after a long illness on 20 February 2021.
  • René Vigié, 79, a former Reuters correspondent in Algiers and Paris, died in Aix-en-Provence after a long illness on 30 January 2021.
  • Jean-Paul Couret, 67, former head of the French-language general news service in Paris during 36 years with Reuters until 2014, died on 29 January 2021.
  • Godfrey Hodgson, 86, director of the newly expanded Reuters Foundation Fellowship Programme at Oxford from 1992 to 2001, died on 27 January 2021.
  • Tom Brown, a long-time editor in New York for Reuters Global News Desk, died on 27 January 2021 after an illness.
  • Daniel Edinger, 76, a London French Desk sub-editor in the early and mid-1960s, died in Paris on 24 January 2021.
  • Godfrey Hodgson, 86, director of the Reuters Foundation Fellowship Programme at Oxford from 1992 to 2001, died in January 2021.
  • John Miller, 88, a Reuters correspondent in Moscow and New York in the early 1960s, died in January 2021.
  • Chris Cramer, 73, a multi-media editor at Reuters from 2008 to 2013, died on 16 January 2021.

  • Gunes Sahillioglu, 66, formerly Reuters director of projects and services, died on 4 December 2020 following cardiac arrest.

  • Paul Wyatt, 74, a Reuters employee relations manager in London from 1980 to 2005, died at home in Cornwall on 11 November 2020.
  • Geoff Swettenham, finance systems analyst when he left Reuters in 2005 after 27 years, died on 28 September 2020.
  • Sir Harold Evans, 92, Reuters editor-at-large, died of congestive heart failure in New York on 24 September 2020.
  • Michael Peters, 77, formerly head of development for Reuters Business Information Products, died on 16 September 2020.
  • Fabio d’Inzeo, 59, formerly Reuters Information Management Systems manager in Italy, died of cancer on 10 September 2020.
  • Cynthia Johnson, 66, formerly a Reuters financial journalist for more than 10 years, died at her home in north London on 26 August 2020 after years of poor health.
  • Rashid Hadjee, 54, Reuters South Africa office manager, died of COVID-19 on 17 August 2020.
  • Allan Fotheringham, 87, a Canadian journalist on Reuters Nordesk in London in the 1950s, died in August 2020.
  • Antonio Spampinato, 55, who worked at the Italian Service in Milan from 2000 to 2003, died of cancer on 18 August 2020.
  • Andrew Winning, 49, a former Reuters photo journalist, died of brain cancer in London on 3 August 2020.
  • Arnold Goldman, 81, formerly a technical development senior vice president with Reuters, died on 13 June 2020.
  • Derek Charles, 87, Eurovision editor first at Visnews then Reuters Television from 1982 to 1995, died on 30 May 2020.
  • John Lowe, born in 1942, Reuters sales executive and manager mostly in London from 1977 to 1991, died in April 2020.
  • Deepthi Wickremasinghe, a journalist with Reuters in London in the 1990s, died of cancer on 2 April 2020.
  • Ivan Milutinovic, 63, a Belgrade-based photojournalist from 1991 to 2012, died in March 2020.
  • Colin McSeveny, 66, a Reuters correspondent from 1978 to 1990, died on 29 February 2020.
  • David Mulhall, 72, a former Reuters sales and marketing manager in London and Hong Kong, died on 17 February 2020.
  • David Sells, a correspondent and manager from 1952 to 1966, died in February 2020.
  • John Parcell, 73, a former correspondent who became a director of Reuters, died of cancer on 29 December 2019.
  • Rick Norsworthy, 87, a Reuters journalist from 1963 to 1990, died on 2 December 2019.
  • Khaled al-Ramahi, 57, Reuters television veteran in the Middle East, died suddenly in Amman on 29 November 2019.
  • Graham Turner, 69, treasurer of The Reuter Society and former chief accountant, UK & Ireland during a 21-year Reuters career, died of a heart attack on 4 November 2019.
  • Lionel Walsh, 89, former bureau chief in Bonn and Paris, died on 8 October 2019. 
  • Assem Abdel-Mohsen, 81, father of Reuters Arabic service in Egypt, died on 6 October 2019.
  • Brian Quinn, 83, a former managing director of Visnews, died on 23 September 2019.
  • Paul Ingrassia, 69, former Reuters managing editor, died after a long battle with cancer on 16 September 2019.
  • Albert Clack, a former Reuters journalist, died on 12 September 2019 following a heart attack in December 2018.
  • Robert Elphick, 89, a Reuters correspondent in the 1950s and 1960s, died on 11 September 2019.
  • Ransdell Pierson, 65, a Reuters reporter in New York from 1993-2017, died on 11 September 2019.
  • Geoffrey Atkins, formerly a Reuters journalist in Bonn, London, Chicago and Washington, died on 18 August 2019.
  • François Duriaud, 78, former editor for France, died on 8 July 2019.
  • Peter Montagnon, 69, a former Reuters journalist who worked in London, Hong Kong, Zurich and Washington, died on 25 June 2019.
  • Brenda Maddox, 87, a former Reuters desk editor who became a critic, broadcaster and biographer, died on 16 June 2019.
  • Christopher Thomas, Reuters financial controller in the 1980s, died on 6 June 2019.
  • Douglas Learmond, 74, former Reuters commodities editor in London, died on 16 April 2019.
  • Corrie Shanahan, 50, a former Reuters journalist, died at home in Washington, DC, on 31 March 2019.
  • Yannis Behrakis, 58, award-winning Reuters photographer, died of cancer in Athens on 2 March 2019.
  • Michael Black, 90, sculptor of the stone bust of Paul Julius Reuter in the City of London, died on 14 February 2019.
  • Brendan Boyle, 68, Reuters Johannesburg bureau chief from 1997 to 2004, died of cancer in Cape Town on 10 February 2019.
  • Rudi Saks, a former economics journalist, died due to complications from congestive heart failure on 15 January 2019, eight days before his 80th birthday.
  • Robert Kearns, 74, a former Reuters correspondent, died suddenly on 11 January 2019.
  • Desmond Boylan, 54, a Reuters photographer in Madrid, New Delhi and Havana from 1992 to 2013, died suddenly in Cuba where he lived on 29 December 2018.
  • Andrew Waller, 80, former Reuters journalist and corporate manager, died in hospital on 2 February 2019 a month after suffering a stroke.
  • Bruce Jenkins, 56, a Reuters operations manager who worked on editorial systems in the United States, died of cancer on 16 December 2018.
  • David Fritz, 61, former Reuters correspondent in London, Frankfurt and Brussels, died in Switzerland on 13 December 2018.
  • John Adams, 67, part of the team that built the original Reuter Monitor screen-based foreign exchange retrieval system, died on  6 December 2018.
  • Maurice Quaintance, 86, a Reuters journalist in London, Singapore and Washington from 1963 to 1980, died on 28 November 2018.
  • Richard Lormand, 56, who followed years in New York in the 1980s specialising in entertainment news by founding an international film publicity enterprise, died of cancer in Paris on 15 November 2018.
  • John Hopper, 84, formerly Reuters facilities manager in London, died of cancer on 9 November 2018.
  • Gaby Sommer, 58, formerly a Reuters photographer in Germany, died of cancer on 10 October 2018.
  • Rachel Whittaker, 75, a former human resources manager in London, died on Sunday 7 October 2018.
  • Donald Read, 88, formerly Reuters company historian and author of its official history, The Power of News, died in hospital on 1 October 2018.
  • Giancarlo Orlando, formerly Reuters Vienna-based business manager for Eastern Europe, died in September 2018 after a long illness.
  • Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright née Bower, 85, a Reuters journalist in the late 1950s, died of pneumonia on 3 August 2018.
  • Cliff Graves, 67, former Reuters engineering specialist in London, died of a heart attack in early August 2018.
  • Cyril "Cy" Fox, 86, former chief sub-editor on Reuters London World Desk, died in Canada on 10 July 2018.
  • Joanna Roughton, 55, former head of Reuters TV for Asia, died from cancer on 6 July 2018.
  • Christine Tierney, 60, a former Reuters correspondent in Canada, Mexico and France in the 1990s, died of a severe form of Parkinson’s disease in Washington on 18 June 2018.
  • Peter Seymour, formerly a chief sub-editor on the London World Desk, died on 28 May 2018.
  • Anthony Capon, a former member of Reuters Business Information Products group and head of global content operations teams in London, Singapore, Barcelona and Trenton, New Jersey, died on 6 May 2018 in Trenton following a road traffic accident.
  • Ram Suresh, 74, a former Reuters journalist in India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, UK and US, died of cancer in Bangalore, India in April 2018.
  • Gerry Williams, 77, former personnel executive at Visnews and then Reuters, died in hospital on 28 March 2018 after complications following a fall on an escalator.
  • Gerry Suckley, 84, Reuters Economic Services editor in South Africa from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, died on 9 March 2018.
  • Brian Bain, 79, a Reuters journalist for 37 years until his retirement in 2001, died on 7 March 2018.
  • Charles Mitchelmore, 80, an editor on the North Americas desk of Reuters in London in the 1960s, died of leukaemia in Paris on 14 February 2018.
  • Elizabeth Hawley, 94, who reported for Reuters from Nepal from 1962 to 2008, largely on mountaineer expeditions, died of complications arising from pneumonia in hospital in Kathmandu on 26 January 2018.
  • Christiane Cowell, 73, former senior editorial assistant of Reuters in Bonn and Berlin, died in Berlin on 17 January 2018 after a long illness.
  • Enrique Jara, 77, former manager, Latin America and the Caribbean, and managing director, Reuters Television, died on 17 December 2017 after a long battle with cancer.
  • Thomas Tague, former global head of product and services, Thomson Reuters, died on 29 November 2017.
  • James Saft, a Reuters financial columnist in the United States, died on 16 October 2017 of a pneumonia infection one month after suffering a stroke.
  • Ron Halden, Reuters senior librarian, Newsbank until retirement in 1988, died in London on 13 October 2017.
  • Susan Zeidler, 58, a former Reuters journalist in the United States, died in Los Angeles on 26 September 2017 after a long battle with cancer.
  • David McIlfatrick, 51, formerly with Reuters news technology group, died on 17 September 2017 following a chest infection.
  • Arnold Amber, 77, a Canadian journalist who had worked for Reuters as a correspondent in Africa and Europe, died of cancer on 4 September 2017.
  • Terry Blunsum, 87, a former Reuters journalist in the Middle East and London, died in hospital on 26 August 2017.
  • John Morrison, 68, a former Reuters correspondent, died of cancer on 25 August 2017.
  • Bruce Russell, 88, who spent much of his career as a Reuters journalist in the United States, died in hospital in Los Angeles on 21 August 2017.
  • Dame Helen Alexander, 60, chairman of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, died on 5 August 2017. She had suffered from cancer for several years.
  • Chris Peterson, 70, a former Reuters journalist, died in hospital on 28 July 2017.
  • John Entwisle, 65, Reuters archivist, died in hospital after surgery on 22 July 2017.
  • Reg Potterton, 81, a former Reuters correspondent, died in hospital on 29 June 2017 after an MRI scan following a series of strokes.
  • Bob (Robert) Taylor, 77, a Reuters correspondent in Brussels during the 1970s, died on 12 June 2017 after a long illness.
  • Raj Kumar Ray, 45, formerly a business journalist in Reuters’ New Delhi bureau, was killed in a road traffic accident in the city on 4 June 2017.
  • Michael Rank, a Reuters journalist from 1979 to 1999, died of cancer on 20 May 2017.
  • Charlotte Cooper, 50, Reuters editorial training manager in London, died on 22 April 2017 following surgery. 
  • Ian Stewart, 88, a correspondent in Asia in the 1950s, died in Sydney on 1 April after a series of strokes.
  • Rupert Cornwell, 71, a former Reuters correspondent, died of cancer in hospital in Washington on 31 March 2017.
  • Alex McCallum, 76, former Reuters journalist in London, Brussels and New York, died at his home in the United States in March 2017.
  • Paul Iredale, 66, former correspondent, died after a long illness on 27 February 2017.
  • Audrey Scarff, director, Digital Channels, Thomson Reuters, died in February 2017.
  • Alexander Chancellor, 77, a former Reuters correspondent and editor, died on 28 January 2017.
  • Elizabeth Hornung (née Day), 66, a secretary with Reuters Economic Services in London in the 1960s and 1970s, died of cancer on 17 January 2017.
  • Seah Chiang Nee, 76, a Reuters correspondent in Singapore and Saigon in the 1960s, died on 15 January 2017. 
  • Allan Barker, 83, a former Reuters correspondent and editor, died on 9 January 2017.
  • George Vine, 97, a Reuters correspondent in Bonn in the 1970s, died on 19 December 2016. 
  • Nicholas Turner, 81, former Saigon bureau chief, died of malignant lymphoma in Wellington, New Zealand on 16 December 2016.
  • Peter Jackson, 90, former Reuters correspondent in the Indian sub-continent, died in London on 8 December 2016.
  • Peter Wade, 89, a 42-year Reuters veteran journalist, died in a London nursing home on 8 December 2016 after suffering a series of strokes.
  • William Hardy, 56, a sub-editor in London, died on 3 December 2016 after suffering complications from a brain tumour.
  • Rory Channing, 65, a former Reuters journalist, died of cancer in London on 15 November 2016.
  • Barry Barnett, 77, a former Reuters computer engineer in London and New York, died on 8 November 2016.
  • Allan Reditt, 80, a former Reuters journalist, died of cancer in France on 5 November 2016.
  • Joe Marquette, 79, a former Reuters news photographer, died at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 5 November 2016 after a series of illnesses.
  • Jonathan Gould, a Reuters correspondent in Frankfurt, died on 30 October 2016 after a complicated heart operation one week before his 54th birthday.
  • Juda Ngwenya, a Reuters photographer in South Africa, died in a hospital on 19 October 2016 after suffering a severe stroke five days earlier.
  • Brian Tracey, former editor of reuters.com, died of a heart attack in August 2016.
  • Chris Meyers, 28, a video journalist based in Tokyo, died in North Carolina on 1 August 2016 after a long illness.
  • Gordon Martin, 88, a Reuters correspondent in Europe, Africa and Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, died of a heart attack at his home in Geneva on 27 July 2016.
  • Trevor Wood, 76, a former Reuters journalist, died after a fall at his home in Italy on 17 June 2016.
  • Carl Mollins, 84, a Reuters journalist on the London Nordesk during the late 1950s, died in hospital in Toronto on 28 May 2016 as the result of injuries sustained in a fall.
  • Max Siebenmann, 81, former Reuters salesman and manager, died in Zollikon, Switzerland on 24 May 2016. 
  • Terry Bochatey, 66, chief photographer in the United States from the late 1980s until his retirement in 2012, died after a long battle with cancer in April 2016.
  • Graham Crickett, 70, former international assignments manager for Reuters Europe, Middle East and Africa, died on 7 April 2016.
  • Peter Mosley, 79, former correspondent, editor and editorial manager, died on 30 March 2016.
  • John Stephens, 80, former deputy managing director, Reuters Europe, Middle East and Africa, died in March 2016.
  • Ronald Cooper, 91, former Reuters editor and editorial manager, died on 14 March 2016.
  • Raja Asghar, 77, a former Reuters journalist in Pakistan, died in Islamabad on 13 February 2016.
  • Lee Casey, 78, former Reuters journalist in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and later managing director for North America, died in February 2016.
  • Jim Forrester, 89, formerly Reuters overnight editor, died at home in Edinburgh on 24 January 2016.
  • Peter Howse, 72, formerly a member of Reuters’ Stockmaster/Videomaster engineering team, died on 24 December 2015.
  • Mohsin Ali, 92, former diplomatic editor, died in North Carolina on 16 December 2015.
  • Jim Jelter, 62, formerly an energy journalist in Europe and the United States for two decades, died of cancer at home in San Francisco on 9 December 2015.
  • Diana Drayton, 87, from 1948 to 1988 a secretary to many senior Reuters executives and administrative assistant to the executive committee, died in hospital on 27 November 2015.
  • David Harding, formerly a technical manager in development, died in October 2015 two weeks after a cancer diagnosis.  
  • Brian Dalton, 76, former editorial assistant for 12 years in Madrid, died there on 24 October 2015.
  • Geoffrey Forster, 62, formerly a UK sales and marketing executive and who switched to human resources in Reuters’ London editorial, died on 1 October 2015.
  • Larry McQuillan, 70, a former White House correspondent for Reuters, died of cancer on 19 September 2015
  • Roberto Landucci, 50, a Reuters journalist in Rome, died in a mountain climbing accident in the Italian alps on 8 August 2015.
  • Robert Moors, formerly a senior Reuters communications project engineer in London, died on 11 July 2015 after a short illness.
  • Liam Boyle, former Father of the National Graphical Association chapel at Reuters in London, died in hospital in Ireland on his 71st birthday, 25 June 2015.
  • Khaled al-Hariri, 54, a Reuters photographer in Syria for almost a quarter of a century, died of lung cancer on 22 May 2015.
  • Shavkat Rakhmatullayev, formerly Reuters TV cameraman in the former Soviet Union, died on 10 April 2015
  • David Roberts, 66, former marketing director, Asia, died in hospital in Windsor, England on 7 April 2015.
  • Peter “Cal” Ebert, 74, former sub-editor in Hong Kong, Bahrain, Nicosia and London, died suddenly in Pattaya, Thailand in March 2015.
  • David Goddard, 71, former desk editor, died in a nursing home in Devon, England on 13 March 2015 after a long illness.
  • Janice Lahm, 41, a Reuters HR business partner in New York from 2004 to 2010, died of cancer on 2 March 2015
  • Maria Golovnina, 34, Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief, died suddenly at her office in Islamabad on 23 February 2015.
  • Fred Prouser, 63, former photographer in Los Angeles, died of cancer at home in Marina del Rey on 17 February 2015.
  • David Wiessler, 72, former editor in Washington, died on 14 February 2015.
  • Brian "Digger" Williams, 69, former correspondent and editor, died of cancer in Athens on 7 February 2015.
  • Adrienne Farrell Jackson, 94, former correspondent in India, Italy and Switzerland, died in London on 27 January 2015.
  • Charlotte Klotzman, 98, personal assistant to Glen Renfrew when he ran Reuters North America and on into the first part of his term as Reuters managing director, died on 13 January 2015.
  • Michael Edbrooke, 61, former corporate picture librarian and photographer, died of cancer on 16 December 2014.
  • Jeremy Smith, 54, former Reuters Television deputy news editor, died on 14 December 2014.
  • Michael Dixon, 65, a former Royal Air Force engineer who worked for Reuters in City West, London for many years, died after his bicycle was struck by a car in Horsham, England, on 8 December 2014.
  • David Betts, 78, last of the four "Horsemen" who ran Reuters' World Desk, died suddenly on 21 October 2014.
  • Bill Jenkins, 71, former accountant and financial manager, died suddenly on 30 August 2014.
  • Jack Gee, 85, former correspondent, died in Paris on 29 July 2014 after a long illness.
  • Ali Mehravari, 91, former correspondent, bureau chief and manager in Tehran, died on 19 July 2014 after a short illness.
  • Nigel Ryan, 83, former correspondent, died on 17 July 2014 of a stroke in Versailles where he lived.
  • Bob Beattie, 71, former joint venture manager, died on 1 July 2014 after a long illness.
  • Michael Sposito, 57, former Visnews and Reuters Television bureau chief, died suddenly in Palestrina, Italy on 1 July 2014.
  • Ronald “Nobby” Clarke, 86, former correspondent and editor, died on 20 June 2014.
  • Reg Watts, 88, former commodities editor, died at home on 8 June 2014.
  • Debra Sherman, 51, correspondent in the United States, died in Chicago in April 2014 after battling lung cancer for more than a year.
  • Patrick Seale, 83, former correspondent, died in London on 11 April 2014.
  • Thomas Michael Clancy, 64, former editor and bureau chief in the United States, died of cancer on 8 April 2014.
  • Eddie Gillis, 72, former UK London Field Group engineer and communications specialist, died on 9 March 2014 after a short illness.
  • Jimmy Hahn, 83, former correspondent in Singapore in the 1950s and later regional manager for South East Asia, died from an apparent heart attack at his home in Vancouver on 23 February 2014.
  • Gerald "Jerry" Bieszk, 66, former Chicago commodities markets reporter died on 10 January 2014 after a lengthy hospital stay following a bone marrow transplant.
  • Ray Rumble, 81, former telegraphist and special traffic manager in London, died on 7 January 2014.
  • Michael Littlejohns, 91, former chief correspondent at the United Nations, died in hospital New York on 3 January 2014.
  • Jack Hartzman, 81, former London World Desk editor, died at home on 25 December 2013 after a long illness.
  • Muhanad Mohamed, first a driver and then a reporter in Reuters' Baghdad bureau for eight years, was killed by a car bomb near his home in southern Baghdad on 19 December 2013.
  • Jerry Norton, 67, senior correspondent and desk editor mainly in Asia, died in the Washington area on 15 December 2013 after a 14-month battle with a brain tumour.
  • Odile Leroux, 86, former French Service Africa specialist in Paris, died in December 2013. 
  • Keith Leighty, 61, former editor-in-charge of Reuters Americas financial editing desk in New York, died at a New York hospice on 17 November 2013 after a long illness.
  • John Earle, 92, former correspondent, died of pneumonia in hospital in Trieste on 19 September 2013.
  • John Keating, 46, who filled critical roles at Reuters Data Centre in London's Docklands, died in Greece on 12 August 2013 after a massive heart attack.
  • Alexandre “Aleco” Joannides, 90, former correspondent and business manager, died on 4 July 2013 after a long illness.
  • Roland Dallas, 77, former correspondent and features desk editor in London, died on 8 June 2013 at a care home run by the Journalists’ Charity after a long illness.
  • Charles “Chuck” Kershner, 70, former correspondent, editor and senior news executive mostly in the United States, died on 14 April 2013.
  • Helga Frankel, born in 1924, former researcher in the Reuters library in London, died in Honolulu on 7 March 2013.
  • Gerald Ratzin, 79, former correspondent and manager, died at home in London on 13 January 2013 after a long illness.
  • Colin Bickler, 78, former correspondent, editor and manager, died in a London hospice on 12 January 2013 after a short illness.
  • Timothy Avery, 60, former online editor for Reuters.com in Toronto, died on 11 January 2013 after a brief illness. 
  • Douglas Hamilton, 65, correspondent, drowned while swimming in the Mediterranean off a Tel Aviv beach on 24 December 2012.
  • Charles "Chuck" Frankel, 84, sub-editor on Reuters' North American desk in London in the late 1950s, died in hospital in Hawaii on 13 November 2012 after suffering an aneurism.
  • Felix Ordoñez, 52, photographer in Spain, died of a heart attack on 6 November 2012 as he was driving home after covering a soccer match in Madrid. 
  • Paul Nicholson, 52, who held technical posts in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, died in November 2012.
  • Svetlana Kovalyova, 42, journalist in Reuters' Milan bureau, died on 29 September 2012 after a long illness. 
  • Derek Jameson, 82, former editorial executive, died of a heart attack at his home on 12 September 2012.
  • AJ “Tony” Cornish, 76, former international communications manager, died on 25 August 2012 after a short illness.
  • John Baggaley, former correspondent and editor, died in a hospice in Nicosia on 12 August 2012 after suffering from cancer.
  • Brian Crozier, 94, former journalist, died on 4 August 2012 after a long illness.
  • Robin Strathdee, 68, former correspondent, died in a Melbourne care home on 22 July 2012 after a severe stroke.
  • Denis Warner, 94, who worked for Reuters in Tokyo, died in Melbourne in July 2012.
  • Robert Green, 70, former correspondent in Washington, died on 14 May 2012.
  • Nick Carter, 83, former editor and manager, died of malignant melanoma on 10 April 2012.
  • Diane Stormont, born in 1959, former correspondent, died of cancer in hospital in Hong Kong on 14 March 2012.
  • Allan Dowd, 52, correspondent in Vancouver, died of lymphoma in hospital on 10 January 2012.
  • Allan Maitland, 80, former correspondent and editor, died on 11 December 2011 after suffering from lung cancer.
  • Dennis Savage, in his mid-80s, former commodities journalist in Comtelburo and Reuters Economic Services, died on 25 September 2011 at the Journalists' Charity home in Dorking, England.
  • Robert Eksuzyan, 81, a former translator and fixer in Moscow, died on 24 September 2011 in his homeland of Abkhazia.
  • Frank Fitter, 79, former economic services editor, died on 14 September 2011.
  • Ronald Harris, 86, former staff manager, died in June 2011.
  • Clare McDermott, 82, former correspondent and editor, died on 5 July 2011.
  • Shaun Best, 43, photographer in Montreal, died of a heart attack on 11 June 2011.
  • Ronald Farquhar, 88, former correspondent, died in Geneva on 19 April 2011.
  • Michael Posner, 79, former correspondent in Washington, died of leukemia on 11 March 2011.
  • Richard Williams, 56, former correspondent, died on 11 February 2011.
  • Aubrey Higgs, 93, former sports news editor, died on 26 October 2010.
  • Vladimir Raitz, 88, former radio monitoring interpreter, died on 31 August 2010.
  • Thomas Ingham, former technical manager, died of cancer in Thailand on 27 May 2010.
  • Amy Corcoran, former Reuters TV producer, died suddenly in Doha on 7 April 2010.
  • Gordon Cook, 83, former assistant pensions manager, died in September 2009.
  • Peter Blake, 59, technical manager, died of cancer on 9 July 2009.
  • Mark Nichols, 74, former sub-editor on Reuters' Nordesk in London, died in hospital in Toronto on 21 September 2011.
  • Erdmute Greis-Behrendt, 74, former editorial assistant in East Berlin, died of cancer on 15 August 2011.
  • Gilbert Sedbon, 94, former correspondent, died in Paris on 25 June 2011 after a short illness.
  • John Lawrenson, 80, former executive who co-wrote a book about events leading up to the 1984 flotation of Reuters in London and New York, died with his wife at their home in England on 23 April 2011.
  • Pat Caton, 60, who provided HR administrative support in London within the technical operations and development groups, died of a brain tumour on 9 April 2011.
  • Bill Hartley, 73, former sub-editor in London, died suddenly at his home in Montreal, Canada, on 6 April 2011.
  • Ron Sly, 83, formerly a senior editor on the London World Desk, died on 6 January 2011.
  • Duncan McWhirter, 75, former sub-editor on Reuters World Desk in London, died in Vancouver on 20 July 2010 after a stroke and a succession of complications.
  • Hugh Pain, 69, former correspondent, died on 25 February 2010 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.
  • Christian Wiessner, 46, commodities and energy reporter in New York, died of cardiac arrest on 12 January 2010 a day after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia.
  • David Nicholson, 68, former night editor on the London World Desk, died suddenly at his home in Beckenham, Kent on 2 August 2009.
  • Brian Horton, 76, former editor-in-chief, died suddenly at his home in Spain on 25 July 2009.
  • Doreen Vaughan, 77, former finance department secretary, died of cancer on 25 June 2009.
  • François Giuliani, 70, former correspondent who later served as spokesman for three United Nations secretaries-general, died on 15 June 2009.
  • Rob Batsford, believed to be 67, former correspondent in Africa and on the sports desk,  died at a hospice in Warwickshire  on 11 June 2009 two months after being diagnosed with brain tumours.
  • Jack Henry, 92, former editor of Reuters World Service, died on 6 May 2009.
  • Patrick Massey, 81, former correspondent, died in hospital on 17 March 2009.
  • Chris Catlin, 62, former correspondent and manager, died suddenly from an apparent heart attack on 12 February 2009 near his home in Lincolnshire, England.
  • Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, 96, last of the Reuters, died on 25 January 2009.
  • Ralph Harris, 87, former White House correspondent, died on 24 December 2008 in a hospital outside Washington.
  • John Rettie, 82, former correspondent, died of cancer in hospital on 10 January 2009.
  • Mary Powers, 54, former correspondent in Lima and desk editor in New York, died at home in Boston, Massachusetts on 9 January 2009 after a long illness.
  • Arthur Spiegelman, 68, global entertainment editor, died on 20 December 2008 at his home in Los Angeles after suffering from cancer for several years.
  • Daniel Sullivan, 93, former assistant communications supervisor and one of Reuters' last uniformed messengers, died on 6 November 2008.
  • Ron Howard, 65, former correspondent and chief sub-editor, died on 17 October 2008 after a short illness.
  • Alan White, 60, former head of global technical operations, died in his sleep at home in France on 26 September 2008.
  • David Mathew, 79, former correspondent and editor, died suddenly at his home in Sarasota, Florida on 16 September 2008 of an apparent heart attack.
  • David Chipp, 81, former editor, died in his sleep at home in London on 10 September 2008.
  • Basil Chapman, 90, former assistant world services editor in London, died on 20 August 2008.
  • Steve Parry, 64, former sports editor, died  on 7 August 2008 after suffering from a respiratory illness.
  • Gerry Peterson, 83, former assistant to correspondents in The Hague, died on 29 May 2008 after suffering from cancer for several years.
  • Dolly Aglay, 41, commodities correspondent in Manila bureau, died on 26 May 2008 after a long illness.
  • Alan Thomas, 65, former correspondent and editor, died suddenly of a heart condition at home in Polruan, Cornwall in April 2008.
  • W S (Bill) Humphries, 74, former correspondent, editor and staff manager, died on 26 March 2008 after a long illness.