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
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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