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Leaning back into the future
Friday 31 May 2013
Value and values
Monday 10 March 2014
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Thursday 3 October 2013
Gauging Bloomberg's China 'Rethink'
Thursday 27 March 2014
Change is hard to handle
Monday 5 December 2011
Focus on news
Thursday 21 April 2011
Alan Wheatley leaves Reuters still unrivalled despite the squalls
Friday 29 November 2013
Chrystia Freeland in the rough and tumble of Toronto politics
Sunday 17 November 2013
The delightful Nelly and her petit salé aux lentilles
Nowhere but Paris could be home to a cheap and cheerful bistro that featured a statuesque blonde waitress called Nelly, a bar nicknamed Smelly's after its malodorous patron, and everywhere plenty of vin rouge. Memories are vague, possibly clouded by alcoholic haze.
'Pursue the truth'
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Has the penny finally dropped at Reuters?
Thursday 16 September 2021
Manfred Pagel, Strategist
Monday 12 February 2024
Communication in a Time of Plague
Sunday 20 September 2020
Leaning back into the future
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Definitively not Reuters
Monday 30 July 2018
I owe Manfred a lot
Wednesday 14 February 2024
Thomson and Reuters - a damaging culture clash
Monday 15 November 2021
Facts and opinions about facts - an ancient lesson
Saturday 23 November 2013
Speedy and smart: back to the future
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Jim Hohman
Wednesday 15 December 2021
Change for the better at Reuters
Thursday 26 July 2012
Open letter to Steve Hasker, president & CEO of Thomson Reuters
Sunday 20 September 2020
Safeguarding Reuters
Wednesday 31 January 2018
And now for the good news…
Friday 27 November 2020
Reuters - comradeship, shared endeavour and laughs
Thursday 20 March 2014
The unicorn that could help slay Bloomberg
Wednesday 14 June 2017
The source
Monday 31 July 2023
Are news agencies worth it?
Friday 16 July 2010
More news, analysis and commentary about TR, please
Wednesday 20 November 2013
A false armistice cablegram to the American Embassy in Britain
Sunday 3 July 2022
Do we want commentary from our news agencies?
Thursday 21 October 2010
Reuters: A bedrock and a beacon - Peter Bohan
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Nick Moore - Reuters trailblazer
Monday 3 May 2021
Fate and fortune: the state of Reuters
Monday 5 September 2016
A delicate matter
Saturday 22 January 2011
Nick Moore and a call in the night from Idi Amin
Monday 17 May 2021
News agencies must evolve or meet extinction
Thursday 17 November 2011
Andrew Nibley
Thursday 6 August 2020
Appalling mistake (stupidity? vandalism?)
Monday 15 November 2021
Manfred Pagel - Hard shell, soft centre?
Friday 2 February 2024
Journalism in the age of Trump
Friday 3 February 2017
A future for news
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Harold Evans makes himself clear
Monday 8 May 2017
Harvey Morris
Wednesday 15 February 2023
TASS - 'exceptionally verified' - and Reuters
Thursday 17 March 2022
Julian Nundy
Wednesday 11 May 2022
Reuters loses top two journalists in Brazil
Thursday 28 May 2015
Stephen Adler: 'How my colleagues made me a better journalist'
Saturday 17 May 2014
The Baron is ten years old
Saturday 16 June 2018
Reuters 'identity crisis'
Wednesday 22 August 2012
It's not stenography… and it's not always nice
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Reuters was 'enormous fun' says Paul Taylor, signing off with hopes for its future
Monday 1 August 2016
Pascal Fletcher 'irritated' Fidel Castro and now, it seems, David Thomson
Saturday 29 November 2014
New Year resolutions for Foundation's media development arm
Thursday 1 January 2015
Changing journalism; changing Reuters
Friday 15 October 2010
China relations
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Bright path to the dark side: A journalist's journey in public relations
Tuesday 30 May 2017
News judgment and the pressure to pick up
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Career change for Reuters TV's Tara Joseph
Tuesday 20 December 2016
Manfred Pagel was a mensch
Friday 2 February 2024
Reuters Middle East boot camp
Sunday 21 March 2021
Breaking News remembered
Wednesday 3 August 2016
Jo Weir ends 25 years of fun at work
Wednesday 2 April 2014
Godfrey Hodgson
Friday 10 March 2023
Breaking News revisited
Monday 18 July 2016
Help for young people to make sense of world news
Monday 23 February 2015
Le Monde critique
Saturday 12 June 2021
The Reuters buyout and those left behind
Tuesday 22 October 2013
Share credit generously, and then some
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Spotlight
Saturday 5 August 2023
Come remember Michael Arkus
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Tales from the trail: a little bird told me
Friday 24 July 2015
Reshaping the business of social change
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Are the Trustees doing their job?
Friday 20 May 2016
Linked data and the future of the web
Friday 31 October 2014
My Reuters journey - in words and pictures
Friday 4 December 2020
Journalism: the long and the short of it
Monday 27 May 2013
Squeezing the genie back into the bottle
Monday 21 September 2009
Expat tales and family ties as told by ex-HR head
Thursday 23 August 2018
Paul Mylrea at the heart of the BBC's media storm
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Online service for young adults tops funding goal
Monday 16 March 2015
Scenes from a marriage
Monday 17 December 2012
Peter Bale named launch editor of WikiTribune
Thursday 3 August 2017
Google News: Europe's newest BFF*
Tuesday 5 May 2015
Refinitiv out? Reuters back in?
Monday 5 August 2019
News service backed by ex-Reuters journalists wins global prize
Tuesday 6 September 2016
How an episode in Africa set back the promotion of women for years
Thursday 22 May 2014
Stockmaster - the service that revolutionised Reuters
Friday 13 June 2014
Living to tell the story
Monday 6 December 2010
Reuters must keep core values to keep traditional clients
Wednesday 4 February 2015
The Baron: rejuvenation
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Journalists as friends
Sunday 26 May 2013
Enthusiasm, determination and an element of luck
GILBERT SEDBON - From the Nile to the Seine: The lifelong story of a reporter in wars, revolutions and peacetime - LMB Lovemore Books - 2010
'Topher' Wurts launches fund-raising campaign for autism network
Thursday 12 March 2015
A software rollercoaster
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Farewell
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Reuters man played piano for troops on D-Day ship
DAVID HALTON - Dispatches from the Front - McClelland & Stewart - 2014
Be careful what you tweet
Monday 15 August 2011
Vivid pictures and 'a rattling good story'
JOHN CHADWICK - Snapshots: A Reporter's Life - Athena Press - 2009
Our need to be in the midst of danger
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Mel Morris: Ready humour under stress
Thursday 19 October 2023
The golden age of journalism
Monday 28 March 2011
Peter Humphrey blames prison in China for worsening his health
Sunday 25 October 2015
Big Bang
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Don't like WikiLeaks? Let reporters do their jobs
Monday 2 August 2010
Reuters and the False Armistice of 7 November 1918
Thursday 6 April 2017
Media and ethics - challenges in the 21st century
Friday 4 March 2022
Clár Ní Chonghaile forgets word limits and deadlines in search of literary perfection
Wednesday 6 January 2016
Ray Rumble
Saturday 25 January 2014
Reuters technical development chronology: Retrospective
Wednesday 26 April 2017
A grand preparation for life
Thursday 25 January 2018
Roland Dallas
Sunday 16 June 2013
Ex-Reuters journalists meet to decode the news
Thursday 2 July 2015
Did the spy, Pham Xuan An, just miss death at Tet 1968?
Tuesday 30 January 2018
On 60th anniversary, Peter Jackson remembers his Everest scoop
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Reuters technical development chronology 1991-1998: Introduction
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Double agent in Warsaw
Tuesday 13 February 2018
How Jim discovered treasure in Macau
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Principles and power
Monday 21 October 2013
Reuters technical development chronology 1964-1990: Introduction
Monday 22 June 2015
A trainee's view of Reuters in the 1970s
Thursday 9 August 2018
Fake news, democracy and the search for truth
Monday 12 December 2016
Bob Evans recalls Soviet 'black' envy at US moon landing
Sunday 4 October 2009
Remembering Bill Stringer and other members of the 'Greatest Generation'
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Reuters technical development chronology 1990
Monday 3 August 2015
The press censors and the Reuter Armistice Bulletin of 7 November 1918
Monday 10 July 2017
Fake News and how reporters risk falling into Trump's trap
Thursday 7 December 2017
Sam Fromartz learns in Paris how to bake a stellar baguette
Monday 7 September 2009
Post-traumatic growth, the little-known upside of reporting on trauma
Thursday 4 January 2018
A Reuters moment in time
Friday 15 October 2010
Another, more subtle source of trauma: The suffering of others
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Accuracy and speed
Thursday 29 October 2009
Sponsored content: the scrutiny of believability
Monday 28 January 2019
Brian Mooney re-elected to the City's local government
Friday 24 March 2017
Sponsorship return on investment
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Blue Heron seeks project manager for new London HQ
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Davos then and now
Friday 25 January 2013
'Comandante' Fidel bows out
Tuesday 29 November 2016
On being 'hired hacks of the Western bourgeoisie'
JOHN MILLER - All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening - Hodgson Press - 2010
Pensioners and former employees
Thursday 20 May 2010
Source to outsource
Saturday 30 August 2014
Future news network
Monday 15 March 2010
No tears, just an outstanding file by brilliant journalists
Friday 18 November 2016
Graeme Ramsey: An insightful and challenging pension fund trustee
Wednesday 16 March 2022
'Do not get up. Drink Champagne'
Friday 27 May 2016
Douglas Hamilton
Monday 31 December 2012
Reuters technical development chronology 1985-1989
Monday 27 July 2015
Douglas Hamilton
Sunday 30 December 2012
Fall of the Berlin Wall: Correspondents remember what it was like
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Suing for Silence: Thiel v. Gawker
Thursday 2 June 2016
How Peter Humphrey played a 'waiting game' in a Chinese prison
Monday 19 February 2018
David Fox and Andrew Marshall
Friday 13 May 2011
Reuters technical development: Glossary
Monday 10 August 2015
Rick Norsworthy, US Communications Director
Friday 20 December 2019
Hats off to the News-Decoder crew
Thursday 7 December 2017
Mohsin's royal scoop
Monday 21 December 2015
Reuter Monitor: The big bet
Thursday 20 August 2015
In nostalgic return to Vietnam, Jim Pringle remembers fallen comrades
Friday 30 April 2010
Nick Carter
Tuesday 17 April 2012
John Earle
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Reuters technical development chronology 1995-1998
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Ron Sly's book
Monday 7 December 2015
Bridge of Spies: what it was really like
Tuesday 15 December 2015
Reuters technical development chronology 1991-1994
Wednesday 26 April 2017
9/11: A personal memoire updated 18 years later
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Anthony Grey
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Telling the story
Friday 2 December 2016
Theatre dedicates play to the two imprisoned Reuters reporters
Monday 3 September 2018
Fireman Doug, son of Tarzan
Friday 26 April 2019
Ronald Farquhar
Thursday 21 April 2011
Reuters and AP
Monday 26 August 2019
Trainees
Tuesday 1 January 2013
Edref
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Poor footballers, a world away from today's rich and famous
Thursday 31 May 2018
The story I couldn't quite let go
Sunday 7 April 2019
Editorial appraisal objectives
Friday 23 October 2009
Marcus Ferrar
Tuesday 11 October 2016
Editorial appraisal objectives
Sunday 25 October 2009
Reuters staff unite to say: Free our colleagues now
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Journalists as friends
Saturday 25 May 2013
Ambush in Saigon: An update
Thursday 18 May 2017
Golden moments, and a certain breed
Thursday 12 January 2017
Origin of Reuters stock identification codes
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Ethics - Luis Carlino
Saturday 22 June 2013
Peter Howse - full of ideas, enthusiasm and invention
Sunday 17 January 2016
85 Fleet Street
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Pensions communications survey
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Funny peculiar and funny ha-ha, that was Cy Fox
Sunday 12 August 2018
Reuters in the US
Sunday 25 August 2019
Appointment from Mexico
Friday 6 December 2019
Aubrey Higgs
Wednesday 3 November 2010
David Nicholson
Monday 3 August 2009
Olympic Games
Friday 20 July 2012
Climate change
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Ali Mehravari and I were contemporaries in Tehran
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Jean Espinassy
Thursday 12 May 2011
Where are they now?
Friday 25 September 2009
News
Review of the year 2014
Monday 22 December 2014
More cost-cutting and organisational change marked the past year at Reuters and Thomson Reuters. Following are some highlights of developments reported on The Baron.
Job cuts: 'Difficult early steps' - CEO James Smith
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith announced a further 3,000 job cuts on Tuesday and told the group's 60,000 employees some of the early steps in its evolution into "a platform company" will be difficult.
Chrystia Freeland 'hastened Reuters Next's demise'
Thursday 26 September 2013
Chrystia Freeland, who quit suddenly in July as Reuters' managing director and editor, consumer news, to launch a political career, was both the motivating force behind the agency's ambitious digital revamp and one of the primary reasons it was killed, according to current and former employees.
Barry Moody is the new Editor of The Baron
Thursday 21 March 2024
Barry Moody has been named as the new Editor of the Baron, taking the helm after founder Barry May stepped back to deal with health problems.
CEO James Smith: TR stabilised, its credibility restored
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Thomson Reuters chief executive James Smith, pictured, said on Tuesday the business had been stabilised and credibility restored since he took over in January 2012 and the company is now ready to turn the page to the next chapter of its evolution.
Stephen Adler on Reuters' new editorial strategy
Tuesday 25 March 2014
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler (photo), reinforced editorial's new strategy of simultaneously reinforcing the agency's traditional core and expanding it "to include more forward-looking, insightful, exclusive and enterprising journalism".
Reuters unveils plans to face changed 'realities'
Tuesday 7 January 2014
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, pictured, on Tuesday reiterated the agency's commitment to independent, unbiased, on-the-ground journalism, said Thomson Reuters is committed to the news operation, and unveiled plans "that respond to, and anticipate, changes brought about by new technologies, new user behaviors, new competitors, and new global business realities".
What does a Chief Transformation Officer do?
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Thomson Reuters' new chief transformation officer introduced himself to the company's staff on Wednesday and tried to explain what his job entails.
Thomson Reuters staff need new thinking and behaviour - CEO
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Thomson Reuters chief executive James Smith (photo), has defined a new statement of purpose and set of values for the corporation that require new thinking and behaviour by employees to achieve a unified enterprise.
Focus on emerging markets in Reuters media shake-up
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Reuters is re-organising its media marketing and sales structure to place greater emphasis on emerging markets and new areas of growth in a "challenging and dynamic media environment". In place of the existing three regional sales teams there will be four. Some sales staff are leaving the company.
Thomson Reuters named 'best sell side data provider'
Wednesday 16 April 2014
Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday it has been recognised as Best Data Provider to the Sell Side at the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014. The awards are designed to highlight leading technologies and third party providers to the sell side and are voted on by a panel of judges made up of senior sell-side professionals and Waters magazine staff.
Reuters climate change coverage 'worsened' - study
Thursday 27 February 2014
Reuters coverage of climate change issues has worsened in the past six months and continues to decline, according to a new analysis by US pressure group Media Matters for America.
Reuters aims to become best in the world - Stephen Adler
Friday 16 September 2011
Reuters wants to raise its profile, increase the impact of its journalism and be as influential in the United States as it is in the rest of the world.
Inside story: Reuters and the Trump Effect
Friday 29 September 2017
Reuters has launched a new focus on covering US President Donald Trump - a dedicated section of the news file featuring text stories, video, photos, interactive graphics and data that identify and measure the impact of policies in the areas of energy and environment, health care, immigration and business and the economy.
Thomson Reuters adds tweets to Eikon for traders
Monday 3 February 2014
Thomson Reuters on Monday added news sentiment data, including analysis of Twitter feeds, to its flagship financial markets desktop Eikon. Traders can now identify trends and potential signals in huge amounts of unstructured data.
Reuters editor-in-chief sets agenda for 2013
Thursday 24 January 2013
Following recent large-scale layoffs and tight cost controls, Reuters is committed to an ambitious agenda in 2013, president and editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said on Wednesday.
Reuters will cut more jobs - editor-in-chief
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler (photo) told staff of more imminent job cuts and said that, in "dizzyingly fast" changing market conditions, resources within the agency had to be shifted to areas where promising growth opportunities are seen.
'Strong commitment' to news but 2013 will be tight - Stephen Adler
Thursday 18 October 2012
There is a strong commitment to news within Thomson Reuters but things are going to be tight in 2013 given the environment the group's financial clients are operating in, Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said on Thursday.
Layoffs at Thomson Reuters largely designated, staff told
Friday 15 February 2013
Layoffs at Thomson Reuters " 2,500 or four per cent of the 60,000 workforce this year " disclosed in a presentation to analysts on the latest financial results this week have largely already been designated, according to a discussion on the company's internal communications system.
News ethics light shines on paid Reuters article
Friday 25 January 2019
A report on Reuters' website raises questions about the ethics of paid stories that look and feel like journalism and on news providers' broader relationships with governments, Columbia Journalism Review said.
Reuters launches Insider - 'YouTube for traders'
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Thomson Reuters on Tuesday launched an online interactive financial video service, Reuters Insider - dubbed "YouTube for traders".
In challenging media market, Reuters appoints new commercial chief
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Reuters appointed chief financial officer Claudia Palmer (photo) as chief commercial officer following a period in which she held the role on an interim basis after the resignation of chief executive Andrew Rashbass last April.
Thomson family affirms importance of Reuters news - Stephen Adler
Saturday 25 February 2012
Thomson Reuters' business leaders and its majority shareholders " Canada's Thomson family headed by chairman David Thomson " have strongly affirmed that news is core to the products and services it provides and to the mission of the company, editor-in-chief Stephen Adler told editorial staff.
Reuters 2015 budget 'tight but sufficient' - editor-in-chief
Wednesday 17 December 2014
Reuters' budget for the coming year will be tight but sufficient to fund great journalism throughout the world and fuel new areas of growth, editor-in-chief Stephen Adler (photo) said.
Reuters sets new objectives
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Reuters set new goals in a programme of objectives and key results being rolled out throughout Thomson Reuters.
Reuters to move Americas desk, cut US editorial jobs
Thursday 10 October 2013
Reuters will move its Americas editing desk to New York from Washington, cut seven union-represented editorial staff in the United States by year-end, and offer enhanced voluntary buyout packages to all employees who have been with the organisation for at least 18 years.
Thomson Reuters launches climate change news site
Thursday 25 September 2014
Thomson Reuters launched an online monitor to identify and analyse trends, topics and other information in global news coverage of climate change.
Kenneth Li joins successor to top technology site
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Kenneth Li, pictured, who left Reuters as an editor at large last week, is to be managing editor at a new technology website to be launched by two top writers from Dow Jones whose closely-watched technology columns appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
James Smith aims for change plan by 1 January
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Thomson Reuters' new chief operating officer James Smith, pictured, has set out his strategy for a change plan to be in place by 1 January 2012.
'Essential' restructuring cuts 2,000 Thomson Reuters jobs, newsroom unaffected
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Thomson Reuters announced 2,000 job cuts worldwide in an "essential" restructuring and a fourth-quarter charge of $200 million to $250 million to "simplify and streamline" its business.
Reuters names executive editor for editorial strategy
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Reuters has promoted Asia regional editor Jean Yoon (photo) to a new strategic editorial role in New York.
No going back on Reuters staff cuts, says editor-in-chief
Sunday 12 October 2014
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler (photo) has warned staff that job cuts over the past year will not be reversed and that editorial numbers world-wide will remain for the foreseeable future at around 2,500, 500 down on the level before the reductions began.
Thomson Reuters revenue up on legal and tax business
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Thomson Reuters posted a two per cent rise in second-quarter revenue on Tuesday on the strength of its legal and tax and accounting businesses, and reaffirmed its forecast for 2013.
Disappearing headlines and other faults of flawed terminal
Monday 22 August 2011
Problems with Thomson Reuters' flawed new flagship desktop platform, part of a $1 billion technology upgrade, have been highlighted in an internal memo that acknowledges faults and goes some way to explaining why it has not been a runaway hit with financial professionals.
Fool asks: Have we seen the worst at Thomson Reuters?
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Thomson Reuters shares are still not cheap but the attractive dividend yield, solid cash flow and ongoing share buybacks should support the stock price, the Motley Fool said in an analysis of last week's 2013 Q4 results.
Thomson Reuters resilient in tough times - James Smith
Thursday 9 February 2012
Thomson Reuters' latest financial results " a steep quarterly loss following a $3 billion charge related to the falling value of its financial services division " once again demonstrated the resilience of the business in demanding times, chief executive James Smith said in a rallying call to staff on Thursday.
CNN fires ex-Reuters trainee for plagiarism
Friday 16 May 2014
CNN announced it fired a news editor in its London bureau - a former Reuters graduate trainee - for repeated plagiarism. Most of the plagiarised material came from Reuters.
Reuters CEO suggests US is still a question mark
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Reuters will continue to see growth in the United States but whether it can break through into a heartland dominated by the Associated Press and Bloomberg will be a big ask, Reuters chief executive Andrew Rashbass said in an indication the agency's focus there may have gone too far.
Thomson Reuters seeks new London base
Saturday 25 January 2014
Thomson Reuters is looking for a new London base and is in talks on two potential sites. It has instructed a property firm to find up to 700,000 square feet (65,000 square metres) of office space " one of the biggest requirements in the British capital since the downturn.
Changes make Thomson Reuters 'more unified internally' - James Smith
Monday 19 December 2011
Thomson Reuters' new chief executive James Smith, who takes over from Tom Glocer on 1 January, confirmed two top appointments on Monday and said that after a year of challenges and changes everyone would be relieved "to put this period of realignment behind us".
Thomson Reuters CEO James Smith charts a path to high growth
Wednesday 20 May 2015
Thomson Reuters has begun the third phase of an extensive plan to turn the business around and invest for high growth.
Storm-hit TR services 'almost completely restored'
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday that customer outages caused by Hurricane Sandy have been relatively few, and services are now almost completely restored.
How Thomson Reuters is creating a culture of innovation
Friday 3 October 2014
Innovation is now one of the hottest topics in Thomson Reuters says senior vice president Cary Burch (photo), who describes the innovation network as the most visited site on the company's intranet.
Tom Glocer sees great things ahead for news
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Many people at Thomson Reuters are tired of organisational change and the rumour mill is hyperactive, CEO Tom Glocer said on Tuesday, but many of the group's businesses are growing strongly and he sees great things ahead for news as a core distinguishing asset for the whole company.
Climate change brouhaha a non-story - Paul Ingrassia
Tuesday 27 August 2013
Reuters managing editor Paul Ingrassia, pictured, has dismissed controversy over reduced coverage of climate change as the claims of a disgruntled former employee and a non-story.
Reuters names global news editor
Thursday 16 July 2015
Reuters promoted a regional editor to be global news editor, a new position with a full-time focus on the global dimensions of stories it covers.
New desktop a 'fundamental shift' - Devin Wenig
Tuesday 14 September 2010
Eikon, Thomson Reuters' new flagship desktop launched on Tuesday, is a fundamental shift for the company and the industry, said markets chief Devin Wenig, pictured.
500-word edict cuts Reuters news file wordage
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Reuters' 500-word limit introduced four months ago for most stories in North and South America has reduced news file wordage by 16 per cent.
Reuters faces 'unprecedented identity crisis' - report
Wednesday 15 August 2012
The business founded by Paul Julius Reuter 161 years ago is facing an unprecedented identity crisis, with the relative value of breaking news diminishing, Reuters' financial customers retrenching and a string of operational mis-steps since the company was taken over five years ago by the Thomson group, The Independent said on Wednesday.
Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler 'could face axe' - report
Friday 20 September 2013
Reuters editor-in-chief and president Stephen Adler, pictured, could face the axe in new chief executive Andrew Rashbass's drive for profit, the New York Post said on Friday.
Thomson Reuters boosts its digital presence
Thursday 7 April 2011
Reuters has promoted its star journalist. Chrystia Freeland, global editor at large, has been named to the new position of editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, as the company puts more emphasis on Internet and mobile applications for its consumer news products.
Website revamp 'puts Reuters journalism at centre stage'
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Reuters unveiled a major overhaul of its story-level pages for Reuters.com including a new design that it said puts Reuters journalism at centre stage.
The new Reuters - ruled from New York
Thursday 6 June 2019
Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler added more detail to Reuters "newsroom of the future" initiative with a plan to increase centralisation and reduce regional autonomy.
Thomson Reuters turns to web for major product revamp
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Thomson Reuters is overhauling its markets division in the biggest technological change since the 2008 merger.
Reuters, still without a CEO, loses second top executive
Wednesday 16 September 2015
Five months after the departure of Andrew Rashbass, Reuters remains without a chief executive and now another top executive is leaving.
Top editor hits back over 'reduced' climate coverage charge
Friday 18 July 2014
Managing editor Paul Ingrassia (photo) responded to critics who said he was responsible for reduced reporting by Reuters of climate change news.
Stephen Adler spells it out: stick to Reuters standards
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Five days after Reuters published an inflammatory report that alleged billionaire financier George Soros was behind the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, editor-in-chief Stephen Adler on Tuesday spelled out to staff the need to stick to the agency's editorial standards.
Guardian to Reuters: Sorry for editing mistake
Friday 12 October 2012
In a case reminiscent of the legendary Fleet Street newspaper reporter's trick of filing such stories as "I stood among the battle-scarred ruins of (pick up agencies)", The Guardian has apologised to Reuters for an editing mistake that raised an allegation of plagiarism.
New Bloomberg terminal raises questions at Thomson Reuters
Monday 27 February 2012
Thomson Reuters staff prepared for client questions following its main rival's launch of a new flagship market data service. David Craig, who heads the financial & risk business that includes Reuters news agency, circulated a list of customer talking points following the announcement.
New website trumpets firsts and exclusives
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Reuters has launched a new website to showcase news firsts and exclusives. Reuters Firsts promotes market-moving coverage where Reuters was first or alone with the story.
Social media 'an amplification, a megaphone'
Wednesday 5 August 2009
Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter have transformed the news industry forever, a paper from the Reuters Institute of Journalism says.
Reuters to name its first female editor-in-chief
Monday 12 April 2021
Reuters is set to name one of its top editors, Alessandra Galloni (photo), as its next editor-in-chief. She will be the first woman to lead the agency in its 170-year history.
Majority stake in terminals and data business sold for $17 billion
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Thomson Reuters agreed to sell a controlling stake in its financial terminals and data business for $17 billion to US private equity group Blackstone.
Bloomberg to open new front in war with Thomson Reuters
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Bloomberg is set to launch a new front in its war with Thomson Reuters by offering a free and open software interface that aims to bypass RICs, the lucrative code for identifying securities on terminals.
Thomson Reuters to launch video news service in June
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Thomson Reuters will launch a video news service in June for financial professionals who use its terminals, part of a $1 billion plan to appeal to a new generation of customers.
Refinitiv blocks Reuters stories on Tiananmen
Monday 3 June 2019
Under pressure from China's government, Refinitiv has removed from its Eikon terminal Reuters news stories related to the 30th anniversary of the bloody suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Thomson Reuters begins search for successor to James Smith
Sunday 20 October 2019
Thomson Reuters is looking for a new chief executive to succeed James Smith (photo), the Financial Times reported.
'Orphan asset' Reuters 'not for sale'
Friday 1 November 2019
Thomson Reuters has rebuffed takeover interest in Reuters, the Financial Times reported on Friday, betting instead on the agency's new president to turn it round.
Reuters hires Harold Evans as editor-at-large
Sunday 12 June 2011
Reuters has hired veteran journalist Sir Harold Evans, 82, as editor-at-large in its latest attempt to widen the agency's reach and journalistic aspirations.
Bloomberg beats Thomson Reuters in revenue/headcount
Sunday 17 March 2013
Bloomberg outperforms Thomson Reuters by a wide margin in terms of revenue per employee, according to a US financial desktop product industry consultant.
Multi-media coverage was an Olympics win for Reuters
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Reuters rated its coverage of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro a landmark multi-media success and acknowledged there were lessons to be learned.
New Thomson Reuters desktop aims at Bloomberg
Monday 13 September 2010
Thomson Reuters' next generation desktop product for financial professionals (pictured above) incorporates social media features it hopes will help win customers from Bloomberg and others.
Reuters drops top sports editor from Olympics team
Thursday 5 April 2012
Reuters has dropped its award-winning global sports editor from the team covering this year's Olympic Games. Thomson Reuters sources said that after a dispute over staffing Paul Radford, pictured, a veteran of 15 Olympics, would play no part in coverage of the London event.
Reuters boosts support for staff with mental health issues
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Reuters has appointed a veteran journalist experienced in working in hostile environments to help colleagues affected by mental health issues.
Reuters rocks - US business magazine
Monday 3 August 2009
Reuters rocks, a US business magazine says. Long live Reuters and other news/press agencies that embrace the Internet and fair use.
Thomson Reuters aims to click with the Internet generation
Sunday 30 August 2009
Thomson Reuters is gearing up for what markets division chief Devin Wenig calls Reuters' first proper product launch - a new flagship platform for financial products for the Google, YouTube and Twitter generation.
2,500 job cuts at Thomson Reuters this year
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Thomson Reuters is slashing 2,500 jobs, about four per cent of its 60,000 workforce, this year as it cuts costs and tries to turn around its largest division. Severance will cost $100 million this quarter.
Reuters still 'adroit and adaptable' - CEO Andrew Rashbass
Friday 12 September 2014
The inaugural meeting of the Reuter Society of America on Wednesday drew around 35-40 people and in the process signed up the first tranche of members.
Thomson Reuters Q2 profit falls, sees Q3 revenue growth
Thursday 29 July 2010
Thomson Reuters reported lower quarterly profit and revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations on Thursday but said sales trends pointed to a return to revenue growth this quarter.
Top editor denies Reuters has abandoned accuracy for speed
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Is Reuters now too speedy for its own good? Has it abandoned the principle that it is better to be accurate than first with the news? Not so, despite recent examples where it republished stories by other news organisations that proved to be inaccurate, says Sean Maguire, a seasoned correspondent who now directs coverage of political and world affairs and ensures it meets Reuters' high quality standards.
Tom Glocer, proud of Reuters, says machines are taking over breaking news
Friday 15 May 2015
Professional journalists will remain important for the addition of context, analysis and insight but machines are taking over in breaking fast moving news, Tom Glocer (photo) says.
Eikon upgrade rolls out in bid to win back market share
Wednesday 30 January 2013
In an attempt to win back lost market share, Thomson Reuters has begun rolling out a big upgrade to Eikon, the flagship data and trading platform that struggled at its 2010 launch.
Foundation 'goes beyond the concept of giving grants'
Thursday 25 April 2013
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is unique, Thomson Reuters chief executive James Smith said on Wednesday on the 30th anniversary of the company's charitable arm.
Staff given job search tips
Monday 26 May 2008
Thomson Reuters staff have been sent guides on how to apply for internal jobs, UK Press Gazette magazine reported.
Thomson Reuters launches new corporate branding campaign
Monday 24 January 2011
Thomson Reuters on Monday launched a new corporate branding campaign designed to further enhance the meaning, understanding and relevance of the Thomson Reuters brand to professional customers and leading decision makers.
Reuters beats all but NYT as world leaders' top source on Twitter
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Reuters is second only to The New York Times as world leaders' favourite news source on Twitter.
Top Thomson Reuters executives set managers a new goal
Friday 25 January 2013
Thomson Reuters' executive committee headed by CEO James Smith has set a new job performance goal that will affect all of the group's 60,000 employees.
Search for Reuters CEO continues
Friday 12 February 2016
Thomson Reuters is still looking for a chief executive to run Reuters ten months after Andrew Rashbass quit the job.
Rebuked Reuters.com editor leaves for second time
Friday 13 December 2013
Kenneth Li, pictured, global editor of Reuters.com until he received a sharp management rebuke earlier this year, leaves the organisation today, the latest in a long line of Reuters people to go in its current round of five per cent headcount reduction. Many have been offered buyouts.
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund to honour fixers
Thursday 27 October 2016
A new award to recognise news fixers - "the unsung heroes of modern journalism" - was launched at the annual Kurt Schork Awards in London.
Refinitiv removes another Reuters story from screens in China
Friday 2 August 2019
Refinitiv has again bowed to Chinese pressure to remove a Reuters story from its Eikon terminals in China.
Reuters editor-in-chief to step down
Wednesday 6 January 2021
Stephen Adler (photo), editor-in-chief of Reuters for the past ten years, will retire in three months' time.
Reuters repositioning news for 21st century
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Reuters is investing to reposition its news for the 21st century in an effort to anticipate the future needs of clients who include the Google/YouTube generation, says Chris Cramer, global multimedia editor.
Reuters cans experimental e-mail and linkblog service
Monday 22 September 2014
Reuters has closed Counterparties, an e-mail and linkblog service for financial news and commentary that offered a curated look at the day's big business stories.
Trust Principles 'alive and well and kicking'
Wednesday 15 October 2014
The Trust Principles are alive and well and kicking, the chairman of their guardians, Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, said.
FT, after spurning Bloomberg offer, rumoured talking to Thomson Reuters
Friday 10 February 2012
Thomson Reuters as owner of the Financial Times? It's no more than a rumour, but one discussed publicly and at length by a media commentator after lunch with a senior Thomson Reuters executive.
Bloomberg in major London editorial expansion
Monday 16 May 2022
Reuters rival Bloomberg is doubling down on its growing consumer subscriptions business in the UK in a bid to become the country's main destination for business and financial news.
Light shines on Thomson Reuters de-risking service
Monday 3 August 2015
A spotlight has been shone on a secretive Thomson Reuters service that helps businesses to identify people and entities deemed a reputational risk because of alleged links to financial crime and terrorist organisations.
Police drop sources order
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Police dropped an attempt to force The Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories related to Britain's phone-hacking scandal. Leading newspaper editors earlier roundly condemned the bid at a Thomson Reuters event at which the regulation of the press was debated.
Reuters names former magazine editor as Americas editor
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Reuters has appointed a former editor of Time, Life and People magazines to oversee the work of all of its journalists in North America and Latin America.
Eikon sales improve, but still sluggish in the Americas
Friday 1 March 2013
Thomson Reuters' flagship desktop terminal Eikon, upgraded in January after disappointing sales since its launch in September 2010, has reached 50,000 installations ready for billing " but take-up in the Americas remains sluggish.
Covering Trump - the Reuters way
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler (photo) gave Reuters journalists a list of do's and don'ts on how to cover President Trump and told them to "keep the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles close at hand".
Reuters to provide news to Amazon for artificial intelligence applications
Friday 15 November 2019
Reuters is to provide access to news and data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. AWS Data Exchange is a new service that enables AWS customers to use third-party data.
News is vital to Thomson Reuters - James Smith
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Chief executive James Smith (photo) renewed Thomson Reuters' commitment to continuing to provide high quality journalism for years to come.
Thomson Reuters close to naming new CEO - Reuters
Thursday 20 February 2020
Thomson Reuters is close to naming former Nielsen president Steve Hasker (photo) as its next chief executive, succeeding James Smith, Reuters reported.
Tiffany Wu appointed Reuters Americas editor
Wednesday 8 November 2017
Reuters promoted Tiffany Wu (photo) to be editor, Americas. She takes up the job immediately in succession to Kevin Krolicki who is moving to Singapore as Asia editor.
Reuters Ukraine coverage drives record usage
Thursday 14 April 2022
Reuters extensive on the ground coverage from Ukraine has seen record-breaking use of its pictures and video content by publishers and TV stations around the world.
Thomson Reuters launches high-speed global network
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Thomson Reuters launched a global, high-speed network on Tuesday for financial firms to access real-time data as well as share information with each other directly.
Speed over accuracy: ex-correspondents raise concerns
Monday 26 October 2009
Former correspondents criticised Reuters' reporting standards, raising doubts about the primacy of speed over accuracy in an increasingly competitive market.
Online news: the Millennials take over
Wednesday 25 November 2015
At a seminar on online news organised in Oxford on 23 November by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the participants were the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Facebook.
Reuters president steps down
Monday 13 September 2021
Reuters president Michael Friedenberg (photo) today announced his departure in December after exactly three years in the job.
Brouhaha in the blogosphere over spiked story
Friday 8 January 2010
Editorial staff have questioned editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, pictured, over a story that was spiked after a hedge fund manager complained to a top Thomson Reuters executive.
Thomson Reuters clients urge more transparency on product price list
Saturday 4 October 2014
Thomson Reuters will raise prices for dozens of data products and services by up to 10 per cent on 1 January 2015. Legacy products and services and contracts agreed at a discount to the current list price are among those affected.
The Thomsons, Woodbridge and Reuters observed
Tuesday 4 December 2012
What can the Thomson family, majority owners of Thomson Reuters, do about Reuters? One view, aired on Forbes magazine's website, is this: "Stick it out and make cuts to get it profitable again".
The Fool asks: Is the Thomson Reuters turnaround story real?
Saturday 2 August 2014
Investors are starting to believe in the turnaround story at Thomson Reuters, investor website The Motley Fool said after this week's quarterly earnings report.
Thomson Reuters opens new HQ in Toronto
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Thomson Reuters has moved into new headquarters in Toronto (photo) which it says will serve as a major product innovation hub for the company.
Whistleblower says 16 big TR clients saw data early
Friday 6 September 2013
A whistleblower complaint has been filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission identifying 16 of the world's biggest banks and hedge funds as early recipients of key economic data supplied by Thomson Reuters, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Tom Glocer: We have a clear sense of mission
Thursday 7 April 2011
Three years after the merger, Tom Glocer says Thomson Reuters is achieving a better focus on where it plans to be.
Two senior editors to depart Reuters
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Two members of Reuters editorial leadership team are leaving for new opportunities, editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni announced.
Integrating Refinitiv: the LSE's challenge
Sunday 21 March 2021
Investors' worries about the Refinitiv takeover have increased over the scale of the London Stock Exchange's challenge to integrate the business, a Financial Times commentary said.
Reuters launches video app for people too busy to watch traditional TV news
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Reuters rolled out what it billed as the world's first mobile TV news service designed for "on-the-go, globally-minded consumers who don't watch traditional TV news".
Another PIP departure makes it 17 gone in US
Thursday 25 October 2012
Another veteran journalist has left Reuters, the 17th in the United States to depart after being targeted by performance improvement plans.
Thomson Reuters joins fight against human trafficking
Wednesday 17 June 2015
Thomson Reuters is linking up with two anti-slavery organisations to turn the power of data analytics onto corrupt labour brokers and people traffickers.
Thomson Reuters 'one of best firms for work-life balance'
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Thomson Reuters is one of the 25 best companies for work-life balance, according to a US rating.
Thomson Reuters closes upstate New York office
Friday 16 November 2018
Thomson Reuters is closing its office in Rochester, New York with the loss of about 425 jobs.
Thomson Reuters signs key Eikon deal with EU banks
Friday 8 March 2013
Thomson Reuters has scored a key win for its Eikon sales campaign " the company's flagship desktop terminal will roll out to the European Central Bank and 18 participating national central banks across Europe.
Reuters media chief outlines vision for future news network
Thursday 11 March 2010
Reuters has given a sneak preview of its vision for a future news network that aims to draw on the experience of online social networks.
Devin Wenig sees more media sector mergers
Friday 19 February 2010
Thomson Reuters is still integrating following the April 2008 acquisition and while merger activity has fallen off smaller deals will continue, Devin Wenig, pictured, said at a media conference on Friday.
Myanmar police searched Reuters reporter's home 'for news'
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Police searched the home of Reuters reporter Wa Lone looking for material "related to news" the night after he and colleague Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested, an officer told a court.
Reuters raps three editors over FBI visit
Monday 13 May 2013
Reuters has reprimanded three editors for failing to tell their superiors that the home of a colleague had been raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Talking Biz News said on Monday it had confirmed the reprimands from multiple sources.
Obituary: Susan Zeidler
Thursday 28 September 2017
Former Reuters journalist Susan Zeidler (photo) died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. She was 58.
Act legally and ethically, Thomson Reuters staff told
Friday 22 March 2013
Thomson Reuters employees have been reminded always to act legally and ethically in line with the company's Trust Principles and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
Reuters cuts 25 jobs in Paris - report
Thursday 28 February 2019
Reuters is cutting 25 of its 84 editorial jobs in Paris in a voluntary severance plan, Le Monde reported, saying the plan has yet to be negotiated with unions.
Reuters offers enhanced buyouts for New York-based journalists
Sunday 19 May 2019
Reuters is offering journalists in New York enhanced severance packages in a new buy-out scheme based around its "Newsroom of the Future" initiative.
Four Reuters.com staff depart on redundancy terms
Wednesday 23 October 2013
At least four people have decided to leave Reuters following the closure of its next-generation website Reuters Next, killed off last month as part of a cost-cutting programme.
Reuters is The Source - ad
Monday 27 September 2021
Reuters is launching a new global multi-media advertising campaign that pitches the agency as "The Source".
Banks blacklist ex-Reuters journalist jailed by China
Saturday 5 November 2016
Peter Humphrey (photo), former Reuters journalist turned private investigator who was jailed in China after GlaxoSmithKline's bribery scandal, has been blacklisted by banks on his return to the UK.
Foundation launches new focus on context
Thursday 29 September 2022
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has closed its news website and launched a replacement that concentrates on climate change, the impact of technology on society and the need for more inclusive economies.
Thomson Reuters 'working as strategic partner on BusinessWeek bid'
Friday 7 August 2009
Thomson Reuters is working as a strategic partner with a bidder for McGraw-Hill's ailing US magazine BusinessWeek, which has already attracted a bid from Bloomberg, the digital content website PaidContent said.
Reuters to include news by US 'upstart'
Monday 15 December 2008
Reuters is to incorporate US government and political news from an "upstart news source" into its newswire in a revenue-sharing deal to offer combined coverage to American newspapers and broadcasters.
Reuters wins big on the big stories - Flight 17 and Gaza
Monday 28 July 2014
Reuters coverage of the airliner shot down over Ukraine and fighting in Gaza won plaudits from clients that made editors proud.
Obituary: Peter Jackson
Friday 16 December 2016
Peter Jackson (photo) achieved distinction in two careers - as a Reuters correspondent and as a leading wildlife conservationist.
Asset manager looks to cut Bloomberg fees with cheaper terminals
Sunday 11 February 2024
Looking to slash costs, UK asset manager Abrdn is exploring cheaper alternatives to Bloomberg terminals, widely used in the investment industry, according to the Financial Times. As part of a drive to cut about £150 million, Abrdn was considering scaling back its Bloomberg terminal subscriptions and trialling an alternative from FactSet, the paper quoted two insiders as saying.
Thomson Reuters to review contracts, including data used to track immigrants
Saturday 30 April 2022
Thomson Reuters is to align with UN principles on business and human rights and conduct an independent, company-wide human rights impact assessment of its products and services, including contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
TR Q4 earnings down 68%, more revenue pain expected this year
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Thomson Reuters reported profit for the last quarter of 2009 down 68 per cent and signalled that financial customer losses would continue to hurt revenue in 2010.
David Schlesinger: What I want from the Pentagon
Wednesday 21 April 2010
David Schlesinger on Wednesday demanded justice for journalists killed covering war and called for acknowledgment, transparency and accountability from the Pentagon.
Reuters tops accuracy and impartiality scores - study
Monday 1 July 2019
Reuters has the highest "accuracy score" of all publications in a recent study and tracks almost dead centre on a "bias score", showing neither left- nor right-wing bias.
Reuters aims at 'nimbler' newsroom
Wednesday 15 February 2023
Reuters is changing its newsroom operations team with a "single goal" defined as "to better serve our journalists, our newsroom, and our journalism".
One year behind bars: thumbs up for jailed reporters
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Journalists in Reuters bureaus around the world gave the thumbs up sign on Wednesday as they remembered their two colleagues held in Myanmar on this day 12 months ago.
Reuters reduces carbon market coverage, journalists leave
Friday 7 November 2014
Reuters has discontinued its reports on the European Union carbon market and journalists who reported on the market have parted ways with the company.
Russian tie-up with Reuters sparks hostile comment
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Russia's largest news agency TASS has become a partner on Reuters "award-winning digital content marketplace", provoking a storm of hostile comment on social media.
News honcho champions 'link economy'
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Thomson Reuters' head news honcho has emerged as a champion of the link economy - welcoming the linkage of online news reports by bloggers and other third parties.
Obituary: Helen Alexander
Monday 7 August 2017
Dame Helen Alexander (photo), who died on Saturday aged 60, was chairman of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company which acts as guardian of the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Blackstone CEO sees 'all kinds of efficiencies' in financial data business
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Blackstone believes - and the Thomson family agrees - it can do a better job integrating Thomson Reuters' financial and risk division with "all kinds of efficiencies" when the private equity giant takes control of the business later this year.
Obituary: Harold Evans
Thursday 24 September 2020
Sir Harold Evans, who died in New York on Wednesday aged 92, was already a giant of journalism when he became Reuters editor-at-large in 2011.
Thomson Reuters suspends early release of key data
Monday 8 July 2013
Thomson Reuters on Sunday bowed to a New York attorney general request to suspend its early release of key market-moving data to an elite group of high-frequency traders who pay extra for the privilege.
Reuters offers multimedia news free to digital publishers
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Reuters for the first time will offer a subset of its text, pictures, video and multimedia news free to digital publishers for redistribution.
Thomson Reuters: good news, bad news
Friday 20 January 2023
Thomson Reuters has begun the new year "in a position of strength and confidence" but merit money will be about the same as last year - 1-3% and well below inflation.
Union accuses Thomson Reuters of illegal pay cuts and Twitter curbs
Friday 5 February 2010
A union filed a complaint against Thomson Reuters alleging it is illegally imposing pay cuts and restricting what employees can write on their Twitter accounts.
Obituary: Robert Eksuzyan
Saturday 24 September 2011
Robert Eksuzyan, pictured, who died in his homeland of Abkhazia on Saturday at the age of 81, served Reuters for more than 40 years as a translator and indefatigable fixer in Moscow bureau, from the Soviet period of Brezhnev, through Gorbachev's Perestroika, the chaos of Yeltsin's years to Putin's Russia of today. Over that period he became the bureau's historical memory.
Britain 'secretly funded Reuters' in 1960s and 1970s
Monday 13 January 2020
The British government secretly funded Reuters in the 1960s and 1970s at the behest of an anti-Soviet propaganda unit linked to British intelligence and concealed the funding by using the BBC to make the payments, declassified government documents show.
Discordant notes on the economic crisis
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Reuters has been indulging in navel-gazing over the global economic crisis to try to discover whether the media has been doing its job in reporting the story.
Hong Kong raider to target Refinitiv as a 'terminal acquisition' - report
Sunday 15 September 2019
Hong Kong's stock exchange will turn its fire on Refinitiv in an attempt to bear-hug the London Stock Exchange and win investor support for its hostile £32 billion takeover, The Sunday Times reported.
Reuter Society launches appeal for benevolent fund
Monday 24 June 2013
The Reuter Society on Monday launched an appeal for donations to help provide a lifeline for members who need emergency support.
UK pensioners tell Thomson Reuters they feel they are 'a costly irrelevance'
Thursday 3 June 2010
Retired UK staff feel they are marginalised and are regarded by Thomson Reuters as a costly irrelevance, pensioners have told chief executive Tom Glocer.
Obituary: Khaled al-Ramahi
Monday 2 December 2019
Khaled al-Ramahi (photo), a Reuters television veteran who won the respect and love of colleagues across the Middle East, died suddenly in Jordan on Friday.
CNN drops AP, resumes using Reuters
Monday 21 June 2010
CNN dropped The Associated Press on Monday and said it would use more of its own resources to cover breaking news and features, supplemented by Reuters.
Thomson Reuters names new CTO
Monday 21 July 2008
Thomson Reuters named James Powell as its chief technology officer. He replaces Michael Wilens who is leaving to head asset management at Fidelity Investments. At Thomson Reuters Wilens was executive vice president for strategy, technology and innovation.
Blackstone's F&R acquisition to miss closure target
Friday 4 May 2018
Blackstone will likely miss its 1 July target for completing its $20 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters' terminals and data business.
Alexa, where do you get your news? Reuters
Thursday 19 September 2019
Reuters has struck a deal with Amazon for the voice service Alexa to use its news stories to answer questions.
Peter Humphrey apologises to Chinese government
Tuesday 27 August 2013
Corporate fraud sleuth Peter Humphrey, a former Reuters journalist, sat handcuffed and wearing an orange vest over a t-shirt and shorts as he confessed in Shanghai that he sometimes used illegal means to obtain personal information, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday.
Reuters switches North American sports photo coverage
Sunday 25 August 2013
Reuters news pictures is changing the way it covers sports in North America. Starting mid-September, it will rely on a live feed of all sports photographs provided by USA Today Sports Images.
Thomson Reuters changes its forex Rule Book to promote closer surveillance
Monday 30 June 2014
Thomson Reuters revised its Rule Book, a code of conduct for foreign exchange trading standards, aimed at preventing potential violations of market conduct rules.
Reuters links with Adobe to extend use of its photo and video libraries
Thursday 3 November 2016
Reuters video and photography are to be made available to customers of a new editorial service offered by digital media company Adobe.
Three rival data firms vying to replace Thomson Reuters equities trading tool
Friday 21 November 2014
Three rival data firms are in the running to replace a European equities trading product that Thomson Reuters shut down this month after accuracy issues emerged.
Foundation rebuts LGBT+ reporting allegation
Monday 21 August 2023
The Thomson Reuters Foundation on Monday rebutted a published allegation that its CEO intervened to prevent an editor seeing an LGBT+ group on which it reports, thus calling impartiality into question.
Reuters boosts use of AI in financial news
Wednesday 31 August 2022
Thomson Reuters has acquired a small real time financial news service powered by artificial intelligence and will integrate it into Reuters News.
Obituary: Gilbert Sedbon
Sunday 26 June 2011
Gilbert Sedbon, pictured, who is believed to have been Reuters' longest-ever serving reporter, died in Paris on Saturday after a short illness. He was 94.
Thomson Reuters rumoured bidder for FT
Wednesday 14 November 2012
A joint venture between Thomson Reuters and Pearson has emerged as a possible outcome to talks on the sale of the Financial Times.
Change to Google mobile searches 'will hit Reuters'
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Reuters is one of the slowest news publishers for mobile searches and will be affected when Google changes the way it ranks page speeds, according to US media and marketing industry website Digiday.
Obituary: John Rettie
Wednesday 14 January 2009
John Rettie, the Reuters correspondent who broke the news of Nikita Khrushchev's world-shaking secret speech denouncing Josef Stalin in 1956, has died at the age of 82.
Obituary: Bob Taylor
Wednesday 14 June 2017
Bob (Robert) Taylor was an extraordinary man who during his 77 years was prodigiously generous to his family, to his friends, and to his work.
CPJ calls for Thai government action on slain TV cameraman
Thursday 29 July 2010
Lethal recklessness by security forces and protesters during political unrest in Bangkok led to the death of a Reuters cameraman shot whilst covering the violence, an investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.
$28 million traded on Thomson Reuters' early data release
Friday 7 June 2013
Faster than the blink of an eye, big market players traded stocks worth millions of dollars when Thomson Reuters accidentally leaked a key economic indicator ahead of the scheduled time.
Thomson Reuters bylines reporter who never was
Sunday 28 April 2013
Michelle Boatley is back. Her byline, absent for a few years from Thomson Reuters publication Australasian Legal Business, recently re-appeared. Don't try to contact her. She doesn't exist.
Reuters UK website gets 'gorgeous' new look
Friday 23 April 2010
Reuters' UK website has a gorgeous new look, in the words of editor-in-chief David Schlesinger. It follows the design of reuters.com which was re-launched in a new livery of red, white, black and blue in December.
Obituary: Victor Antonie
Thursday 11 March 2021
Victor Antonie (photo), whose career spanned the three big Reuters regions, died suddenly on 4 March, aged 59, in Johannesburg where he was chief producer for news and editorial in Africa for Reuters TV and Pictures.
Reuters extends search for new president, names stopgap
Thursday 9 December 2021
Reuters is still looking for a successor to president Michael Friedenberg and has appointed another senior executive to take on his duties while the search continues.
Obituary: Doris Frankel
Wednesday 19 January 2022
Doris Frankel (photo), who died this month in Chicago at age 75, left a strong impression on everyone she met, from colleagues to sources.
In the news: the art of expenses
Thursday 9 April 2009
Former correspondent John Morrison has been interviewed on radio about journalists' expenses following the humiliation of a British government minister over a claim for two pornographic films watched by her husband while she was away.
CPJ urges Iraq to probe threats against Reuters bureau chief
Tuesday 14 April 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Iraqi authorities to investigate death threats against Reuters' bureau chief in Baghdad and ensure that journalists are able to work in Iraq without fear of reprisal. Ned Parker was forced to flee Iraq following death threats.
Reuters website hacked in Syrian cyberwar attack
Saturday 4 August 2012
In the latest cyberattack to strike a news organisation covering Syria's civil war, a Reuters website was hacked on Friday and used to disseminate fake stories about the country's rebel movement.
Blackstone starts marketing big F&R buyout loan
Monday 25 June 2018
Private equity giant Blackstone has begun marketing debt financing equivalent to $8 billion in euros to large institutional investors backing its $20 billion acquisition of a 55 per cent stake in Thomson Reuters' terminals and data business, Reuters reported.
Obituary: Diane Stormont
Thursday 15 March 2012
Diane Stormont, who worked for Reuters in Asia from 1986 to 1997, died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong on 14 March, succumbing to cancer.
Thomson Reuters to bid to run new LIBOR
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Thomson Reuters, which has been responsible for the administration of LIBOR for many years, wants to run a toughened new system after being assured by UK regulators that it is not being investigated over attempts to rig global interest rates, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Thomson Reuters puts health unit back on the block
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Thomson Reuters has resumed an auction of its healthcare business, suspended in December due to tough market conditions. Reuters quoted sources familiar with the situation for its report and said Thomson Reuters declined to comment.
China frees Peter Humphrey from jail 'on health grounds'
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Peter Humphrey (photo), former Reuters correspondent held in China for two years, has been freed from prison and is in a Shanghai hospital having tests relating to cancer.
Editors choose finalists for 2015 Kurt Schork awards
Wednesday 1 July 2015
Finalists in the 2015 Kurt Schork Memorial Fund awards in international journalism have been selected from a dozen countries.
Thomson Reuters to buy back up to 10 million shares
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Thomson Reuters said it intends to purchase up to 10 million of its common shares through private agreements with four armʹs length third party sellers.
Promises to confidential sources sacrosanct, says Reuters, but stick to expenses policy
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Reuters reminded its senior journalists and editorial managers about rules for identifying sources in expenses claims.
Pensioners seek UK government help to restore cost of living increases
Wednesday 14 February 2024
Reuters pensioners are lobbying the British government over missed cost of living boosts to pensions. They need increases of almost 48% to make up for their pensions' loss in value over the last 20 years.
Thais call for new probe into Reuters TV cameraman's death
Saturday 17 September 2011
Thai authorities are seeking a new investigation into the death of Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto, pictured, and 12 other civilians killed during political unrest last year. Troops may have had a hand in the shootings, they said.
Irish mortgage lender may sue Reuters
Monday 8 September 2008
Irish Nationwide Building Society is considering legal action against Reuters over an inaccurate report that the home loan firm was holding talks with its lenders to avoid insolvency.
ICE used Thomson Reuters database to pursue immigration violations
Saturday 27 February 2021
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers tapped a Thomson Reuters database containing hundreds of millions of utility records while pursuing immigration violations, according to public documents uncovered by university researchers and shared with The Washington Post.
London Stock Exchange shareholders back $27 billion Refinitiv deal
Tuesday 26 November 2019
London Stock Exchange shareholders waved through its $27 billion takeover of Refinitiv in an overwhelming vote on Tuesday.
Obituary: Carl Mollins
Sunday 29 May 2016
Carl Mollins (photo), a Reuters journalist in London during the late 1950s, died in hospital on Saturday as the result of injuries sustained in a fall on his daily walk along Toronto's lakeshore. He was 84.
Thomson Reuters unveils second $1 billion shares buyback
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Thomson Reuters said it plans to repurchase up to an additional $1 billion of its shares by the end of next year.
Obituary: Gerald Ratzin
Sunday 13 January 2013
Gerald Ratzin, who as a correspondent scored what he remembered as a bittersweet scoop on the death of a United Nations secretary-general in Africa half a century ago, died at home in London on Sunday after a long illness. He was 79.
Thomson Reuters Twitter account hacked
Monday 29 July 2013
Thomson Reuters suspended its Twitter account on Monday after it became the latest victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group tweeted links to political cartoons supporting Syrian president Bashar Assad.
Pope urges press freedom, cites case of jailed Reuters reporters
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Pope Francis (photo) appealed for greater press freedom around the world, citing the case of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on accusations of possessing secret documents.
Thai investigators say army did not kill Reuters TV's Hiro Muramoto
Sunday 27 February 2011
Thailand's Department of Special Investigation has concluded that Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto, pictured covering political protests in Bangkok last year, was not killed by security forces.
Refinitiv doubts complicate LSE CEO's pay hike
Sunday 25 April 2021
The London Stock Exchange is scrambling to bolster support for its chief executive's pay rise as it prepares for a revolt at a shareholder meeting this week over problems with his $27 billion takeover of Refinitiv.
Obituary: Mel Morris
Wednesday 18 October 2023
Mel Morris (photo), a Canadian editor who served on Reuters North American Desk in London, died in a Toronto hospital last month. He was 93.
Thomson Reuters shares top five leading publishers
Thursday 16 September 2010
Thomson Reuters tops a list of the five leading companies in the publishing industry as measured by their shares' relative performance, the website SmarTrend said on Thursday.
UK ministries row over debt linked to Nazanin's release
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Two UK government departments are in disagreement over millions owed to Iran which, if paid, could help the release of Thomson Reuters Foundation manager Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (photo), The Guardian reported.
LSE offers no concessions to avert deeper EU probe of Refinitiv deal
Monday 15 June 2020
The London Stock Exchange will not offer concessions to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its bid for Refinitiv, Reuters reported two people familiar with the matter saying.
'Don't drag out case against Reuters reporters' - embassy
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Myanmar was urged on Wednesday not to drag out legal proceedings against two Reuters journalists, as they appeared in court for the tenth time since their arrest three months ago on charges of possessing secret government papers.
Reuters shares in £2.5 million insider dealing case
Thursday 22 April 2010
Reuters shares traded in the run-up to the 2008 takeover by Thomson were among those involved in a £2.5 million insider dealing investigation, Britain's largest, a London court heard on Thursday.
Reuters bureau chief leaves Iraq after threats
Sunday 12 April 2015
Reuters Baghdad bureau chief Ned Parker has left Iraq after being threatened on Facebook and denounced by a Shi'ite paramilitary group's satellite news channel in reaction to a report last week that detailed lynching and looting in the city of Tikrit.
Thomson Reuters to buy back shares in private deals
Friday 23 September 2016
Thomson Reuters said it would buy up to 6.5 million of its shares in private deals.
Obituary: Claude Salhani
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Claude Salhani (photo), an Arab-American photo-journalist who has died at home in Paris aged 70 after a prolonged illness, was inside a news media building in Beirut in 1981 when an Israeli heavy artillery shell struck. He escaped with a sprained ankle.
Nazanin faces fresh trial on Monday
Wednesday 28 October 2020
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (photo) has been told she will stand trial in Iran on fresh charges next Monday.
Thomson Reuters mulls sale of stake in Reuters HQ
Tuesday 6 October 2020
Thomson Reuters is considering selling its 50 per cent stake in the New York skyscraper that serves as Reuters News headquarters, Bloomberg reported.
Obituary: Penny Watson
Tuesday 11 May 2021
Penny Watson (photo), formerly a bi-lingual secretary at Reuters for ten years, died aged 71 on 15 April after a short illness.
China TV violated UK law in airing ex-Reuters man's forced confession - Ofcom
Monday 6 July 2020
Broadcast regulator Ofcom said China's state television is responsible for serious violations of UK broadcasting rules by airing the forced confession of former Reuters correspondent Peter Humphrey (photo).
Thomson Reuters wins India trade mark - seven years after asking
Monday 29 September 2014
Thomson Reuters has been formally granted the right to use the name Thomson Reuters as a trade mark in India six years after the merger that formed the company and nearly seven years after filing its application.
Paul Iredale - 'polymath with a pint'
Saturday 11 March 2017
The family and friends of Paul Iredale (photo) paid their last respects on Friday to a man widely admired for his courage and integrity who lived life to the full, Ian Jones writes.
Obituary: Irina Demchenko
Wednesday 3 May 2023
Irina Demchenko (photo), former head of Reuters Russian language service in Moscow, died on 1 May in London aged 66.
Reuters journalist expelled by Algeria
Sunday 31 March 2019
Algerian authorities expelled Reuters journalist Tarek Amara on Sunday after he was arrested for covering a protest against president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Obituary: Peter 'Cal' Ebert
Thursday 26 March 2015
Peter "Cal" Ebert, for 25 years a stalwart of four Reuters editing desks around the world, has died suddenly in Thailand at the age of 74.
Events
The Baron's Briefing on Iran: Harvey Morris, former Reuters correspondent in Tehran
Wednesday 15 February 2023 – Wednesday 15 February 2023
Almost half a century after the fall of the Shah, Iran could be facing another slow-burning revolution. As before, it won't be a straightforward clash between nationalists and Islamists but rather a conflict between rival visions of the nation. Baron's Briefings take place on Zoom. For joining instructions email baronsbriefing@gmail.com stating your connection to Reuters or Thomson Reuters.