Reuters
Reuters is a company supplying global financial markets and news media with a range of information products and transactional solutions, including real-time and historical market data, research and analytics, financial trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photographs.The company was founded by Paul Reuter, a pioneer of telegraphy services. In 1940, there was Hollywood a film about Paul Reuter: A Dispatch from Reuters. Edward G. Robinson played the German-Jewish immigrant to London who as early as 1851 began transmitting stock-market quotes between Paris and London via the new Calais-Dover Trans-Atlantic cable.
Reuter's agency built a reputation in Europe for being the first to report scoops from abroad, like the news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Today, almost every major news outlet in the world subscribes to Reuters. It operates in 200 cities in 94 countries. Reuters supplies text in 19 languages.
In the mid-1990s the company had a brief foray into the radio sector with London Radio's two stations, London News 97.3 FM and London News Talk 1152 AM, which replaced LBC in 1994. A Reuters Radio News service was also set up to compete with Independent Radio News.
On September 28 2001, the Group acquired certain businesses and assets of Bridge Information Systems Inc. Also during the year, the Group acquired 100% of Diagram fip SA and 92% of ProTrader Group LP. In October 2001, the Group disposed of its majority stake in VentureOne Corp.
As with all media companies, accusations fly about Reuters's neutrality; The Wall Street Journal 's James Taranto, for example, commonly expresses his opinion that the organization is biased toward left-wing politicians and causes. Critics like Taranto point to such passages as "Bush, who avoided combat in Vietnam while serving as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard, calls himself a war president for his re-election campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran" [1] as evidence that Reuters does not bother reserving its opinions for the editorial page. Stephen Jukes, Reuters’s global head of news, banned the use of the word "terrorist" to describe the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Some supporters of Israel, such as Catholic Exchange and Honest Reporting, feel that Reuters's reporting on the Israel-Palestinian conflict has an unfair bias against Israel (see links below).
Overall the consensus is that Reuters sticks pretty closely to the Reuters Trust principles supported by the Reuters Foundation shareholding, namely:
that the integrity, independence and freedom from bias of Reuters shall at all times be fully preserved;
that Reuters shall supply unbiased and reliable news services to newspapers, news agencies, broadcasters and other media subscribers and to businesses, governments, institutions, individuals and others with whom Reuters has or may have contracts;
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