Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest and most trusted news agencies in the world.
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Some of the key events about Reuters

  • 1851
    Founded as a news agency in London to transmit stock market quotations between London and Paris
  • 1865
    Established the first transatlantic telegraph cable connection
  • 1923
    Introduced the use of radio to transmit news internationally
  • 1941
    Developed the first automated system for transmitting financial data
  • 1941
    Accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany during World War II
  • 1964
    Launched the Stockmaster, an electronic quotation system for the American Stock Exchange
  • 1973
    Became the first news organization to set up a real-time foreign exchange rate quotation service
  • 1977
    Criticized for biased reporting during the Lebanese Civil War
  • 1981
    Introduced Reuters Monitor Dealing Service, the first electronic foreign exchange trading system
  • 1984
    Became a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
  • 2000
    Faced allegations of manipulating foreign exchange rates
  • 2003
    Criticized for inaccurate reporting on the Iraq War
  • 2005
    Accused of publishing digitally altered photographs from the Lebanon-Israel conflict
  • 2007
    Faced controversy over misreporting North Korean nuclear program details
  • 2008
    Launched Reuters Insider, a financial video news service
  • 2010
    Criticized for delayed reporting on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
  • 2012
    Accused of publishing misleading photos during the Syrian Civil War
  • 2015
    Faced criticism for biased coverage of the Greek debt crisis
  • 2019
    Criticized for inadequate fact-checking in climate change reporting
  • 2021
    Introduced an AI-powered tool called Lynx Insight to assist journalists in identifying newsworthy data patterns

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