Reuters

Paul Julius Reuter opened an office near the Royal Exchange in London to transmit news and stock prices to clients. The newly laid Dover–Calais submarine cable made it possible to send information between London and Paris.⁠[1]

Reuters used ship transfers and a telegraph line along the Irish coast to bring news of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to London. Its anniversary history cites this transatlantic report as a representative case of early news transmission.⁠[2]

During the Second World War, Reuters and its shareholders at the time established the Trust Principles, which require preserving the organization’s independence, the integrity of its news, and freedom from bias. These principles later continued to apply to Thomson Reuters.⁠[3]

When Reuters went public, it set up the Reuters Founders Share Company, which uses a special founders share and its attached rights to uphold the Trust Principles. The mechanism sets protections against major changes of control and disposals of the news business.⁠[3]

Reuters moved its London office from Fleet Street to Canary Wharf, ending its long period of working from Fleet Street.⁠[1]

Reuters began offering news products that computers can process directly, for financial information uses such as automated trading.⁠[1]

The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC combined to form Thomson Reuters. The Reuters news business then became part of Thomson Reuters.⁠[1]

Reuters launched the Reuters Connect content platform, offering news material and partner content to professional clients.⁠[1]

Thomson Reuters completed the sale of a 55% interest in its Financial & Risk business, which then operated under the name Refinitiv. Reuters News remained a reporting segment of Thomson Reuters and began a 30-year news and editorial content supply agreement with Refinitiv, with an initial minimum annual payment of $325 million.⁠[4]

Alessandra Galloni became editor-in-chief of Reuters, the first woman to hold the post in the organization’s 170-year history, overseeing text, video, photo, and graphics coverage.⁠[5]

Paul Bascobert joined Reuters as president of Reuters News, responsible for commercial and operational work. He was previously chief executive of Gannett.⁠[5]

Reuters published a feature marking the 175th anniversary of its founding, tracing its development from telegraph and ship-borne messages to modern multimedia reporting. The feature says its reporting network has about 2,600 journalists covering 165 countries.⁠[2]

In the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes, Reuters’ Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham won the prize for Beat Reporting, and a Reuters team won the prize for National Reporting, with Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler, and Mike Spector named in the citation. Its illustrated reporting and commentary and its breaking news photography were also finalists in the respective categories.⁠[6]

Reuters provides text, photos, video, graphics, and verified user-generated content to media, technology companies, governments, and other organizations, delivered through channels such as Reuters Connect and application programming interfaces. Its public news website offers coverage to general readers.⁠[7]

Official website: https://reutersagency.com/ (opens in a new window). Reader news website: https://www.reuters.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

X (Reuters Agency): https://x.com/ReutersAgency (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

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