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