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A former executive who led the integration of Reuters following its takeover by the Thomson organisation in 2008 on Monday denied "unconscionable" allegations in a "cyberstalking campaign".

The Tokyo Olympics before the time of corona

Thursday 16 April 2020

My Concorde inaugural flight - kind of

Saturday 6 December 2014

Roy Gutman collects another honour

Tuesday 7 August 2018

Reuters must keep core values to keep traditional clients

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Remembering Bill Stringer and other members of the 'Greatest Generation'

Tuesday 7 August 2018

Reuters technical development chronology 1985-1989

Monday 27 July 2015

Toiling in the Afghan vineyard

The story I couldn't quite let go

Sunday 7 April 2019

Media and ethics - challenges in the 21st century

Friday 4 March 2022

Reuters technical development: Glossary

Monday 10 August 2015

Suing for Silence: Thiel v. Gawker

Thursday 2 June 2016

Memorial plaque honours Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk

Friday 19 January 2018

Saigon office nameplate survives in Hong Kong, thanks to Dinh

Sunday 28 April 2024

Poor footballers, a world away from today's rich and famous

Thursday 31 May 2018

Reuters technical development chronology 1995-1998

Wednesday 26 April 2017

Brian Williams: impactful, gutsy, gracious

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Reuters technical development chronology 1991-1994

Wednesday 26 April 2017

Reassured I'm fit, I'm running again

Thursday 14 August 2014

Peter Sharrock, 'Indiana Jones', finds historic relic in Cambodia

Saturday 7 November 2009

Irreplaceable, unforgettable Digger

Sunday 8 February 2015

Origin of Reuters stock identification codes

Wednesday 19 August 2015

How Google has downgraded importance of news websites in search results

Ali Mehravari and I were contemporaries in Tehran

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Reuters steps up search for the next generation of photojournalists with latest round of its grant program

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Reuters orders cut-backs to save costs

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Reuters has imposed immediate controls to cope with higher than expected costs due to staff expansion, coverage of the war in Ukraine and historically low attrition.

Obituary: Ian MacKenzie

Sunday 30 April 2023

Ian MacKenzie (photo), who has died at the age of 81, had a passion for reporting and an eye for a big story as a correspondent and editor in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thomson Reuters names analyst as next head of investor relations

Tuesday 4 January 2022

Thomson Reuters announced its next head of investor relations in succession to Frank Golden who is retiring in July after 18 years in the role.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reuters launches new safeguards for initiative journalism

Friday 3 February 2012

Reuters is instituting a new system of story proposals for initiative journalism. Reporters must tell editors in advance of writing what kinds of sources and statistics or data will be used and whether the story will need to be read for legal reasons or potential risk to the organisation's reputation.

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.

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.

Editorial automation set to advance

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Automatically-generated financial news and data is set to increase, freeing up journalists to develop exclusives or write analyses.

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.

Senate scrutiny for Thomson Reuters data deal

Tuesday 16 July 2013

A senior US senator has launched an investigation into the early release of market-moving consumer sentiment data compiled by the University of Michigan to a select group of investors by Thomson Reuters.

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.

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.

Reuters' climate change coverage halved under new editor

Tuesday 23 July 2013

Reuters' climate change coverage declined by nearly half after managing editor Paul Ingrassia, pictured, a climate change sceptic, joined the agency, a US study of the Reuters file showed on Tuesday.

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.

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 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".

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.

Too soon, Reuters kills off financier George Soros

Thursday 18 April 2013

Reuters accidentally killed off billionaire financier George Soros on Thursday when it published an obituary prematurely.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Earnings up, Thomson Reuters forecasts higher revenue this year

Thursday 10 February 2011

Thomson Reuters' 2010 Q4 profit jumped 27 per cent higher than a year ago and the company said it expects revenue to rise this year by a "mid-single-digit" percentage. Analysts on average expect that figure to be about four per cent.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reuters re-thinks its editorial training

Sunday 21 December 2014

Reuters is changing the way it trains journalists to give more importance to on-the-job learning and reduce emphasis on the agency's stand-alone training operation. Starting on 1 January, the training team will be smaller.

Robo-journalism could replace hundreds of jobs at Thomson Reuters - study

Sunday 5 March 2017

Artificial intelligence technology is to be rolled out more widely in media organisations and has the potential to replace "hundreds" of journalists at Thomson Reuters alone, according to an academic study.

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.

Thomson Reuters names new editor-in-chief

Monday 7 February 2011

Thomson Reuters appointed a new editor-in-chief on Monday to oversee the entire group's news strategy and operations.

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.

David Schlesinger: all a-twitter and scooping Reuters

Friday 30 January 2009

Editor-in-chief David Schlesinger has started a debate over his twitterings.

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.

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 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.

Reuters names new Americas editor

Thursday 5 December 2013

Reuters on Thursday appointed Asia editor Dayan Candappa, pictured, to run editorial operations in the Americas. He succeeds Jim Gaines as US-based Americas editor. Gaines becomes global editor at large responsible for editorial training, internship, diversity and coaching initiatives and reporting directly to editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, who said Candappa would report to Paul Ingrassia, London-based managing editor.

Reuters editorial desk shake-up in drive for quality

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Reuters editorial's global desk structure is being re-organised with the aim of "becoming the world's leading provider of news and insight".

Richard Nixon's role in creating Thomson Reuters

Monday 3 November 2008

The former Bretton Woods agreement is a topical subject in these uncertain economic times. But when UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a new Bretton Woods agreement at our Canary Wharf office in London recently, he would have been unaware of the pivotal role of the original agreement - or, rather, its ending in 1971 by President Nixon - in the creation of Thomson Reuters.

Thomson Reuters Q1 profit misses analysts' forecasts

Wednesday 29 April 2015

Thomson Reuters' adjusted profits narrowly missed Wall Street expectations as a stronger US dollar weighed on first-quarter results.

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.

Tom Glocer on news and newspapers

Wednesday 25 February 2009

The Reuters journalist who reported Thomson Reuters' Q4 results on Tuesday has added something that was not included in the wire story: the public thoughts of CEO Tom Glocer on news and newspapers.

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.

Refinitiv vision: the Netflix of data

Thursday 25 October 2018

Refinitiv aims to become the Netflix of data in the battle for the multi-billion dollar global financial data market, says chief executive David Craig (photo).

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.

Reuters drops TV app fee, aims for wider audience

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Reuters video news app for people too busy to watch television is now free.

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.

Coders: Thomson Reuters offers $20,000 for Eikon filter

Tuesday 15 July 2014

Thomson Reuters is offering $20,000 for help to improve Eikon, its flagship desktop data terminal.

Reuters rolls out 'studio in a suitcase'

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Reuters is kitting out journalists with a portable multimedia suite that has been dubbed "studio in a suitcase".

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 instructs staff concerned about travel under Trump ban

Monday 30 January 2017

Reuters issued instructions to its journalists and other staff on what to do about changes to US border controls and practices ordered by President Donald Trump.

Reuters cracks down on reader comment

Monday 27 September 2010

Reuters is installing a new system aimed at blocking inappropriate comments filed by readers of stories on its website.

Reuters shuffles senior Middle East roles

Tuesday 6 March 2018

Reuters announced senior editorial appointments in the Middle East "to win across the file, from the fastest snaps to the deepest enterprise" and counter aggressive competition from arch-rival Bloomberg.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 improves brand ranking

Thursday 16 September 2010

Thomson Reuters edged higher in a survey of the world's 100 best global brands, rising to 39th place from 40th last year and 44th in 2008.

Thomson Reuters deploys information as a weapon to fight slavery

Friday 27 November 2015

Thomson Reuters has unveiled a potential new weapon in the fight against modern day slavery - information.

Obituary: Mohsin Ali

Friday 18 December 2015

Mohsin Ali (photo), Reuters' diplomatic correspondent and editor until he retired in 1980, died on Wednesday. He was 92.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Court to rule next week on whether to charge jailed Reuters reporters

Monday 2 July 2018

A Myanmar court will rule next week on whether to charge two Reuters reporters accused of obtaining secret documents, after prosecutors and defence lawyers delivered final arguments on Monday in the pre-trial phase of the landmark case.

'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.

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.

Reuters journalists charged, trial begins next Monday

Monday 9 July 2018

Two Reuters journalists held in Myanmar since December were formally charged on Monday under the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act.

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.

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.

Obituary: Michael Black

Monday 25 February 2019

One hundred and twenty-five years after Paul Julius Reuter set up his office in London, a stone bust of him was unveiled close to where he founded his news agency.

Union pledges $500,000 for 'fair contract' campaign at Thomson Reuters

Thursday 22 May 2014

The Newspaper Guild of New York said it would commit $500,000 if necessary for its campaign for a fair contract at Thomson Reuters.

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.

Judge rejects request for dismissal of jailed Reuters reporters case

Wednesday 11 April 2018

A judge on Wednesday rejected a request for dismissal of a case against two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar.

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.

Detained reporter: 'I am trying to be strong'

Wednesday 21 February 2018

The first civilian to testify in the case of two Reuters reporters accused of violating Myanmar's Official Secrets Act contradicted police and prosecutors on Wednesday about where the pair were arrested, the journalists' lawyer said.

Obituary: Juda Ngwenya

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Juda Ngwenya (photo), one of Reuters' star photographers, died on Wednesday in a hospital in South Africa after suffering a severe stroke five days earlier.

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.

Gilbert Sedbon laid to rest in Paris

Thursday 30 June 2011

Former correspondent Gilbert Sedbon, who served Reuters for 48 years, was buried near Paris on Thursday in the presence of former colleagues who together represented an aggregate of several centuries' service to Reuters. Some had been managers for entire continents; others had stayed in the Paris bureau throughout their careers as invaluable office assistants, Bernard Edinger writes. All were linked equally by their affection for their former colleague, who died on Saturday aged 94.

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