Reuters

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Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen,{{Cite book|last=Wynter|first=Andrew|year=1861|title=Our social bees; or, Pictures of town & country life, and other papers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9zACAAAAQAAJ&dq=reuter+telegraph+pigeons&pg=PA298|publisher=R. Hardwicke|location=United Kingdom|access-date= 14 August 2023|page=298}} in what today is Aachen's Reuters House.

Reuter moved to London in 1851 and established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange. Headquartered in London, Reuter's company initially covered commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and business firms.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/500259/Reuters|title=Reuters (news agency)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=26 March 2010|access-date=3 November 2012}} The first newspaper client to subscribe was the London Morning Advertiser in 1858, and more began to subscribe soon after.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2d12iZkgOwC&pg=PA1366|title=Merriam Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia|first=Mark A. | last=Stevens|publisher=Merriam-Webster|pages=1,366|isbn=978-0877790174|year=2001}} According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "the value of Reuters to newspapers lay not only in the financial news it provided but in its ability to be the first to report on stories of international importance." It was the first to report Abraham Lincoln's assassination in Europe, for instance, in 1865.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/04/reuters.pressandpublishing|title=Reuters: a brief history|last=Allen|first=Katie|date=4 May 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=19 February 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011004608/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/04/reuters.pressandpublishing|archive-date=11 October 2017}}

In 1865, Reuter incorporated his private business, under the name Reuter's Telegram Company Limited; Reuter was appointed managing director of the company.{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/reuters-group-plc-history/|title=History of Reuters Group PLC|website=Funding Universe|access-date=8 May 2019}}

In 1870 the press agencies French Havas (founded in 1835), British Reuter's (founded in 1851) and German Wolff (founded in 1849) signed an agreement (known as the Ring Combination) that set 'reserved territories' for the three agencies. Each agency made its own separate contracts with national agencies or other subscribers within its territory. In practice, Reuters, who came up with the idea, tended to dominate the Ring Combination. Its influence was greatest because its reserved territories were larger or of greater news importance than most others. It also had more staff and stringers throughout the world and thus contributed more original news to the pool. British control of cable lines made London itself an unrivalled centre for world news, further enhanced by Britain's wide-ranging commercial, financial and imperial activities.{{cite web |url=https://www.masscommunicationtalk.com/the-era-of-news-agencies.html |title=The Era of News Agencies |work=masscommunicationtalk.com |date=7 November 2020 |access-date=7 March 2022}}

In 1872, Reuter's expanded into the Far East, followed by South America in 1874. Both expansions were made possible by advances in overland telegraphs and undersea cables. In 1878, Reuter retired as managing director, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Herbert de Reuter. In 1883, Reuter's began transmitting messages electrically to London newspapers.

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Reuter's son Herbert de Reuter continued as general manager until his death by suicide in 1915. The company returned to private ownership in 1916, when all shares were purchased by Roderick Jones and Mark Napier; they renamed the company "Reuters Limited" and dropped the apostrophe. In 1919, a number of Reuters reports falsely described the anti-colonial March 1st Movement protests in Korea as violent Bolshevik uprisings. South Korean researchers found that a number of the reports were cited in a number of international newspapers and possibly negatively influenced international opinion on Korea.{{Cite web |last=박 |first=대한 |date=2019-02-20 |title=[외신속 3·1 운동] ⑨ '영일동맹' 허울에 英언론 日 '받아쓰기' 그쳐 |url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20190212161500085 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Yonhap News Agency |language=ko}} In 1923, Reuters began using radio to transmit news internationally, a pioneering act. In 1925, the Press Association (PA) of Great Britain acquired a majority interest in Reuters, and full ownership some years later.

During the world wars, The Manchester Guardian reported that Reuters: "came under pressure from the British government to serve national interests. In 1941, Reuters deflected the pressure by restructuring itself as a private company." In 1941, the PA sold half of Reuters to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, and co-ownership was expanded in 1947 to associations that represented daily newspapers in New Zealand and Australia. The new owners formed the Reuters Trust. The Reuters Trust Principles were put in place to maintain the company's independence.{{cite web |url=http://thomsonreuters.com/about-us/company-history/ |title=Company History |publisher=Thomson Reuters |date=13 December 2013 |access-date=7 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503234856/http://thomsonreuters.com/about-us/company-history/ |archive-date=3 May 2014 |url-status=dead }} At that point, Reuters had become "one of the world's major news agencies, supplying both text and images to newspapers, other news agencies, and radio and television broadcasters." Also at that point, it directly or through national news agencies provided service to most countries, reaching virtually all the world's leading newspapers and many thousands of smaller ones, according to Britannica.

In 1961, Reuters scooped news of the erection of the Berlin Wall. Reuters was one of the first news agencies to transmit financial data over oceans via computers in the 1960s. In 1973, Reuters "began making computer-terminal displays of foreign-exchange rates available to clients." In 1981, Reuters began supporting electronic transactions on its computer network and afterwards developed a number of electronic brokerage and trading services. Reuters was floated as a public company in 1984, when Reuters Trust was listed on stock exchanges including the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and NASDAQ. Reuters later published the first story of the Berlin Wall being breached in 1989.{{Cite book|title=The Power of News: The History of Reuters|last=Read|first=Donald|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0198207689|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207689.001.0001}}

Reuters was the dominant news service on the Internet in the 1990s. It earned this position by developing a partnership with ClariNet and PointCast, two early Internet-based news providers.{{Cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Carl|last2=Varian |first2=Hal R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aE_J4Iv_PVEC&pg=PA32|title=Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy |date=1999 |publisher=Harvard Business Press |isbn=978-0-87584-863-1 |page=29 |language=en}}

Reuters' share price grew during the dotcom boom, then fell after the banking troubles in 2001. In 2002, Britannica wrote that most news throughout the world came from three major agencies: the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/news-agency#ref203528|title=News agency|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=23 August 2002|access-date=18 February 2017}}

Until 2008, the Reuters news agency formed part of an independent company, Reuters Group plc. Reuters was acquired by Thomson Corporation in Canada in 2008, forming Thomson Reuters. In 2009, Thomson Reuters withdrew from the LSE and the NASDAQ, instead listing its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The last surviving member of the Reuters family founders, Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, died at age 96 on 25 January 2009.{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-26/baroness-de-reuter-last-link-to-news-dynasty-dies/2586782|title=Baroness de Reuter, last link to news dynasty, dies|date=26 January 2009|work=ABC News|access-date=21 February 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627034038/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-26/baroness-de-reuter-last-link-to-news-dynasty-dies/2586782|archive-date=27 June 2018|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|agency=Reuters}} The parent company Thomson Reuters is headquartered in Toronto, and provides financial information to clients while also maintaining its traditional news-agency business.

In 2012, Thomson Reuters appointed Jim Smith as CEO. In July 2016, Thomson Reuters agreed to sell its intellectual property and science operation for $3.55 billion to private equity firms. In October 2016, Thomson Reuters announced expansions and relocations to Toronto. As part of cuts and restructuring, in November 2016, Thomson Reuters Corp. eliminated 2,000 jobs worldwide out of its estimated 50,000 employees.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/thomson-reuters-earnings-top-estimates-on-growth-in-americas|title=Thomson Reuters Cuts 2,000 Jobs Worldwide in Restructuring|last=Smith|first=Gerry|date=1 November 2016|access-date=6 February 2018|agency=Bloomberg News|url-access=limited}} On 15 March 2020, Steve Hasker was appointed president and CEO.{{cite web |url=https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/board-of-directors.html |title=Board of directors |publisher=Thomson Reuters |access-date=14 January 2022 }}

In April 2021, Reuters announced that its website would go behind a paywall, following rivals who have done the same.{{Cite news|last=Li|first=Kenneth|date=15 April 2021|title=Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomson-reuters-professional-website-idUSKBN2C21QU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415144920/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomson-reuters-professional-website-idUSKBN2C21QU|archive-date=15 April 2021|url-status=dead|access-date=15 April 2021}}{{cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |title=Reuters puts its website behind a paywall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/business/reuters-website-paywall.html |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 2021}}

In March 2024, Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, signed an agreement with Reuters to use the wire service's global content after cancelling its contract with the Associated Press.{{Cite web |last=Bauder |first=David |date=19 March 2024 |title=Gannett news chain says it will stop using AP content for first time in a century |url=https://apnews.com/article/gannett-associated-press-contract-97405e4715c9a25d21477b992028db2a |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}

In 2024, Reuters staff won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses, including SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Gaza war.{{Cite news |last=Ax |first=Joseph |date=May 6, 2024 |title=Reuters wins two Pulitzers, ProPublica takes coveted public service award |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/lookout-santa-cruz-wins-pulitzer-prize-breaking-news-2024-05-06/ |access-date=May 6, 2024 |work=Reuters}}

Reuters employs some 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists{{Cite web|title=Pictures|url=https://www.reutersagency.com/en/content-types/pictures/|access-date=17 December 2020|website=Reuters News Agency}} in about 200 locations worldwide.{{Cite web|title=Home – Reuters News – The Real World in Real Time|url=https://www.reutersagency.com/en/|access-date=13 December 2020|website=Reuters News Agency|language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.tv/careers|title=Careers|website=www.reuters.tv|access-date=14 January 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202001145/http://www.reuters.tv/careers|url-status=dead}} Reuters journalists use the Standards and Values as a guide for fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests, to "maintain the values of integrity and freedom upon which their reputation for reliability, accuracy, speed and exclusivity relies."{{cite web|url=https://www.reutersagency.com/en/about/standards-values/ |title=Standards and Values|publisher=Reuters|date=23 September 2014 |access-date=17 November 2021}}{{cite web|title=Social Media Guide lines|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/mar/11/reuters-sets-up-social-media-guidelines|work=The Guardian|date=11 March 2010|access-date=5 November 2021}}

In May 2000, Kurt Schork, an American reporter, was killed in an ambush while on assignment in Sierra Leone. In April and August 2003, news cameramen Taras Protsyuk and Mazen Dana were killed in separate incidents by U.S. troops in Iraq. In July 2007, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed when they were struck by fire from a U.S. military Apache helicopter in Baghdad.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad.html|title=Video Shows U.S. Killing of Reuters Employees|last=Bumiller|first=Elisabeth|date=5 April 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=24 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909073632/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad.html?_r=1|archive-date=9 September 2012|author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/5rXPrfnU3G0 |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq |via=YouTube |date=3 April 2010 |access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cbignore}} During 2004, cameramen Adlan Khasanov was killed by Chechen separatists, and Dhia Najim was killed in Iraq. In April 2008, cameraman Fadel Shana was killed in the Gaza Strip after being hit by an Israeli tank.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-israel-gaza-reuters-idUSL1632826120080416|title=Reuters cameraman killed in Gaza|last=Al-Mughrabi|first=Nidal|date=16 April 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704041552/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-israel-gaza-reuters-idUSL1632826120080416|archive-date=4 July 2018|work=Reuters}}{{cite web|title=Reuters cameraman 'killed by Israeli tank'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/17/middleeastthemedia.television?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews|work=The Guardian|last=Mark Sweney|date=17 April 2008|access-date=5 November 2021}}

While covering China's Cultural Revolution in Peking in the late 1960s for Reuters, journalist Anthony Grey was detained by the Chinese government in response to the jailing of several Chinese journalists by the colonial British government of Hong Kong.{{cite news|url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844706,00.html|title=Foreign Correspondents: The Tiny World of Anthony Grey|date=20 December 1968|magazine=Time|access-date=22 May 2010|url-access=subscription|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806203224/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844706,00.html|url-status=dead}} He was released after being imprisoned for 27 months from 1967 to 1969 and was awarded an OBE by the British Government. After his release, he went on to become a best-selling historical novelist.{{cite web|title=The Cultural Revolution|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion|work=The Guardian|last=Tom Phillips|date=11 May 2016|access-date=5 November 2021}}

In May 2016, the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets published the names and personal data of 4,508 journalists, including Reuters reporters, and other media staff from all over the world, who were accredited by the self-proclaimed authorities in the separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-hackers-journalist-donbas-current-time/27728765.html|title=Ukrainian Hackers Leak Personal Data Of Thousands Of Journalists Who Worked In Donbas|last=Shamanska|first=Anna|date=11 May 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191014060900/https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-hackers-journalist-donbas-current-time/27728765.html|archive-date=14 October 2019|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}

In 2018, two Reuters journalists were convicted in Myanmar of obtaining state secrets while investigating a massacre in a Rohingya village.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-trial.html|title=Case Against Reuters Journalists in Myanmar Moves to Trial|last=Ives|first=Mike|date=9 July 2018|work=The New York Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190824114626/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-trial.html|archive-date=24 August 2019}} The arrest and convictions were widely condemned as an attack on press freedom. The journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, received several awards, including the Foreign Press Association Media Award and the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and were named as part of the Time Person of the Year for 2018 along with other persecuted journalists.{{cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/wa-lone-kyaw-soe-oo-appeal-year-sentence-181224012706486.html|title=Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to appeal seven-year sentence|date=23 December 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427164532/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/wa-lone-kyaw-soe-oo-appeal-year-sentence-181224012706486.html|archive-date=27 April 2019|publisher=Al-Jazeera}}{{cite press release|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-fpamediaaward/reuters-journalists-wa-lone-and-kyaw-soe-oo-win-journalist-of-the-year-at-foreign-press-association-media-awards-idUSKCN1NW1T8|title=Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo win Journalist of the Year at Foreign Press Association Media Awards|date=27 November 2018|publisher=Reuters Press Blog|url-status=live|archive-date=7 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507114518/https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-fpamediaaward/reuters-journalists-wa-lone-and-kyaw-soe-oo-win-journalist-of-the-year-at-foreign-press-association-media-awards-idUSKCN1NW1T8}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/business/media/pulitzer-prize-winners.html|title=Pulitzer Prize: 2019 Winners List|date=15 April 2019|work=The New York Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530230716/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/business/media/pulitzer-prize-winners.html|archive-date=30 May 2019}} After 511 days in prison, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on 7 March 2019 after receiving a presidential pardon.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48182712|title=Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo: Reuters journalists freed in Myanmar|date=7 May 2019|work=BBC News|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824201809/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48182712|archive-date=24 August 2019}}

In February 2023, a team of Reuters journalists won the Selden Ring Award for their investigation that exposed human-rights abuses by the Nigerian military.{{Cite web |title=Reuters wins Selden Ring Award for investigation of Nigerian military |url=https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-wins-selden-ring-award-204523961.html |access-date=16 February 2023 |website=Yahoo News |date=15 February 2023 |language=en-US}}

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In 1977, Rolling Stone and The New York Times said that according to information from CIA officials, Reuters cooperated with the CIA.{{Cite magazine|date=24 June 2010|title=Rolling Stone's Biggest Scoops, Exposés and Controversies|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/rolling-stones-biggest-scoops-exposes-and-controversies-10596/journalists-exposed-as-secret-cia-operatives-30558/|access-date=13 December 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone}}{{Cite web|last=Bernstein|first=Carl|title=The CIA and the Media|url=http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408030842/http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php|archive-date=8 April 2020|access-date=15 November 2020|website=www.carlbernstein.com}}{{Cite news|date=26 December 1977|title=Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html|access-date=13 December 2020|issn=0362-4331}} In response to that, Reuters' then-managing director, Gerald Long, had asked for evidence of the charges, but none was provided, according to Reuters' then-managing editor for North America, Desmond Maberly.{{Cite news|agency=Reuters|date=17 November 1988|title=the media business; Reuters Editor Plans to Retire|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/17/business/the-media-business-reuters-editor-plans-to-retire.html|access-date=13 December 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=Comments from two worldwide news agencies Wednesday following the...|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/06/03/Comments-from-two-worldwide-news-agencies-Wednesday-following-the/9224391924800/|access-date=13 December 2021|website=UPI|language=en}}

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Reuters has a policy of taking a "value-neutral approach," which extends to not using the word terrorist in its stories. The practice attracted criticism following the September 11 attacks.{{Cite book|last=Moeller|first=Susan D.|title=Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=978-0415339988|editor-last=Allan|editor-first=Stuart|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reportingwarjour0000unse/page/68 68]|chapter=A Moral Imagination: The Media's Response to the War on Terrorism|editor-last2=Zelizer|editor-first2=Barbie|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/reportingwarjour0000unse/page/68}}{{dead link|date=September 2024}} Reuters' editorial policy states: "Reuters may refer without attribution to terrorism and counterterrorism in general, but do not refer to specific events as terrorism. Nor does Reuters use the word terrorist without attribution to qualify specific individuals, groups or events."The Reuters Style Guide {{cite web|title=Terrorism, terrorist - Handbook of Journalism|url=http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=T#terrorism.2C_terrorist|access-date=21 May 2019|publisher=Reuters}}. By contrast, the Associated Press uses the term terrorist in reference to non-governmental organizations that carry out attacks on civilian populations. In 2004, Reuters asked CanWest Global Communications, a Canadian newspaper chain, to remove Reuters' bylines, as the chain had edited Reuters articles to insert the word terrorist. A spokesman for Reuters stated: "My goal is to protect my reporters and protect our editorial integrity."{{cite news|last=Austen|first=Ian|date=20 September 2004|title=Reuters Asks a Chain to Remove Its Bylines|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/business/media/reuters-asks-a-chain-to-remove-its-bylines.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191014063424/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/business/media/reuters-asks-a-chain-to-remove-its-bylines.html|archive-date=14 October 2019}}

In July 2013, David Fogarty, former Reuters climate change correspondent in Asia, resigned after a career of almost 20 years with the company and wrote that "progressively, getting any climate change-themed story published got harder" after comments from then-deputy editor-in-chief Paul Ingrassia that he was a "climate change sceptic." In his comments, Fogarty stated:{{cite news|last=Kroh|first=Kiley|date=16 July 2013|title=Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile to Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science|website=ThinkProgress|url=https://thinkprogress.org/reuters-exposed-publication-openly-hostile-to-climate-coverage-top-editor-doubts-climate-science-c58788de7966/|url-status=live|access-date=17 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510045029/http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/16/2307291/reuters-exposed-publication-openly-hostile-to-climate-coverage-top-editor-doubts-climate-science/|archive-date=10 May 2015}}{{cite news|last=Lazare|first=Sarah|date=17 July 2013|title=Climate Change 'Climate of Fear': Reporter Blows Whistle on Reuters|work=Common Dreams|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/17-1|url-status=live|access-date=17 June 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150220204142/http://www.commondreams.org/news/2013/07/17/climate-change-climate-fear-reporter-blows-whistle-reuters|archive-date=20 February 2015}}{{Cite news|last=Goldenberg|first=Suzanne|author-link=Suzanne Goldenberg|date=26 July 2013|title=Reuters' climate-change coverage 'fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor'|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/26/reuters-climate-change-scepticism-coverage|url-status=live|access-date=14 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019221128/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/26/reuters-climate-change-scepticism-coverage|archive-date=19 October 2017}}

{{Blockquote|text=By mid-October, I was informed that climate change just wasn't a big story for the present, but that it would be if there was a significant shift in global policy, such as the US introducing an emissions cap-and-trade system. Very soon after that conversation I was told my climate change role was abolished.|author=|title=|source=}}

Ingrassia, formerly Reuters' managing editor, previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones for 31 years.{{Cite web|last=Goller|first=Howard|date=16 September 2019|title=Paul Ingrassia, one of the top business reporters of his era|url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/paul-ingrassia-obituary/|access-date=13 December 2020|website=Reuters}}{{cite web|author=Chris O'Shea|date=16 April 2013|title=Reuters Sends Paul Ingrassia to London | FishbowlNY|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/reuters-sends-paul-ingrassia-to-london_b80658|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031150349/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/reuters-sends-paul-ingrassia-to-london_b80658|archive-date=31 October 2014|access-date=17 June 2015|publisher=Mediabistro.com}} Reuters responded to Fogarty's piece by stating: "Reuters has a number of staff dedicated to covering this story, including a team of specialist reporters at Point Carbon and a columnist. There has been no change in our editorial policy."{{cite web|last=Roush|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Roush|date=16 July 2013|title=Ex-Reuters journalist: Wire service not interested in climate change stories|url=https://talkingbiznews.com/they-talk-biz-news/ex-reuters-journalist-wire-service-not-interested-in-climate-change-stories/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015032852/https://talkingbiznews.com/they-talk-biz-news/ex-reuters-journalist-wire-service-not-interested-in-climate-change-stories/|archive-date=15 October 2019|access-date=17 June 2015|website=Talking Biz News}}

Subsequently, climate blogger Joe Romm cited a Reuters article on climate as having a "false balance" and quoted Stefan Rahmstorf, co-{{not a typo|chair}} of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute that "[s]imply, a lot of unrelated climate sceptics nonsense has been added to this Reuters piece. In the words of the late Steve Schneider, this is like adding some nonsense from the Flat Earth Society to a report about the latest generation of telecommunication satellites. It is absurd." Romm opined: "We can't know for certain who insisted on cramming this absurd and non-germane 'climate sceptics nonsense' into the piece, but we have a strong clue. If it had been part of the reporter's original reporting, you would have expected direct quotes from actual sceptics, because that is journalism 101. The fact that the blather was all inserted without attribution suggests it was added at the insistence of an editor."{{cite news|last=Romm|first=Joe|date=21 July 2013|title=False Balance Lives At Reuters: Climatologist Slams 'Absurd' Use of 'Unrelated Climate Skeptics Nonsense'|work=ThinkProgress|url=https://thinkprogress.org/false-balance-lives-at-reuters-climatologist-slams-absurd-use-of-unrelated-climate-skeptics-nonsense-1974f293eb77/|url-status=live|access-date=17 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618073048/https://thinkprogress.org/false-balance-lives-at-reuters-climatologist-slams-absurd-use-of-unrelated-climate-skeptics-nonsense-1974f293eb77/|archive-date=18 June 2019}}

According to Ynetnews, Reuters was accused of bias against Israel in its coverage of the 2006 Israel–Lebanon conflict after the wire service used two doctored photos by a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj.{{cite news|last=Lappin|first=Yaakov|date=6 August 2006|title=Reuters admits altering Beirut photo|publisher=Ynetnews|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322144849/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html|archive-date=22 March 2019}} In August 2006, Reuters announced it had severed all ties with Hajj and said his photographs would be removed from its database.{{cite news|date=7 January 2007|title=Reuters toughens rules after altered photo affair Photos|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL18678707|url-status=live|access-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125013009/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL18678707|archive-date=25 January 2016}}{{cite web|title=Reuters drops photographer over 'doctored' image|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/07/reuters.pressandpublishing|work=The Guardian|last=Julia Day|date=7 August 2006|access-date=5 November 2021}}

In 2010, Reuters was criticised again by Haaretz for "anti-Israeli" bias when it cropped the edges of photos, removing commandos' knives held by activists and a naval commando's blood from photographs taken aboard the Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid, a raid that left nine Turkish activists dead. It has been alleged that in two separate photographs, knives held by the activists were cropped out of the versions of the pictures published by Reuters.{{cite news|last=Mozgovaya|first=Natasha|date=8 June 2010|title=Reuters under fire for removing weapons, blood from images of Gaza flotilla|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5130826|url-status=live|access-date=8 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615183040/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5130826|archive-date=15 June 2018}} Reuters said it is standard operating procedure to crop photos at the margins, and replaced the cropped images with the original ones after it was brought to the agency's attention.

On 9 June 2020, three Reuters journalists (Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing) incorrectly used the image of an Indian herbal medicine entrepreneur in an exclusive story titled "Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide."{{Cite web |last=Mihindukulasuriya |first=Regina |date=29 June 2020 |title=Reuters goofs up, shows innocent Delhi man as wanted Indian hacker behind global spy racket |url=https://theprint.in/india/reuters-goofs-up-shows-innocent-delhi-man-as-wanted-indian-hacker-behind-global-spy-racket/450999/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}} Indian local media picked up the report, and the man whose image was wrongly used was invited and interrogated for nine hours by Indian police. Reuters admitted to the error, but Raphael Satter claimed that it had mistaken the man for the suspected hacker Sumit Gupta because both men share the same business address. A check by local media, however, showed that both men were in different buildings and not as claimed by Raphael Satter.{{Cite news |date=9 June 2020 |title=Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyber-mercenaries-exclusive-idINKBN23G1GQ |access-date=9 November 2022|first1=Jack|last1=Stubbs|first2=Raphael|last2=Satter|first3=Christopher|last3=Bing}}{{Cite web |last=Hucks |first=Marleny |date=30 November 2022 |title=How Reuters Deliberately Attempted to Report a Piece of News Impacted an Innocent Man |url=https://myrtlebeachsc.com/how-reuters-deliberately-attempted-to-report-a-piece-of-news-impacted-an-innocent-man/ |access-date=12 January 2023 |website=MyrtleBeachSC news |language=en-US}} As the report of the inaccurate reporting trickled out to the public, Reuters' senior director of communication Heather Carpenter contacted media outlets to ask them to take down their posts.

In March 2015, the Brazilian affiliate of Reuters released an excerpt from an interview with Brazilian ex-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso about Operation Car Wash ({{langx|pt|Operação Lava Jato}}). In 2014, several politicians from Brazil were found to be involved in corruption, by accepting bribes from different corporations in exchange for government contracts. After the scandal, the excerpt from Brazil's president Fernando Henrique's interview was released. One paragraph by a former Petrobras manager mentioned a comment in which he suggested corruption in the company may date back to Cardoso's presidency. Attached, was a comment between parenthesis: "{{lang|pt|Podemos tirar se achar melhor}}" ("we can take it out if 'you' think better"),{{cite news|date=25 March 2015|title=Para blindar FHC, 'Reuters' propõe em matéria: 'podemos tirar se achar melhor'|language=pt|trans-title=To protect FHC, 'Reuters' proposes in matter: 'we can take it off if you think it's better'.|work=Jornal do Brasil|url=http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2015/03/24/para-blindar-fhc-reuters-propoe-em-materia-podemos-tirar-se-achar-melhor/|url-status=dead|access-date=25 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011132452/http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2015/03/24/para-blindar-fhc-reuters-propoe-em-materia-podemos-tirar-se-achar-melhor/|archive-date=11 October 2017}} which was removed from the current version of the text.{{cite news|last1=Winter|first1=Brian|date=23 March 2015|title=Entrevista-FHC diz que Lula tem mais responsabilidade política em caso Petrobras do que Dilma|language=pt|trans-title=ENTREVISTA-FHC says Lula has more political responsibility in Petrobras case than Dilma|agency=Reuters Brasil|url=https://br.reuters.com/article/topNews/idBRKBN0MJ2B120150323|url-status=dead|access-date=25 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106150147/http://br.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idBRKBN0MJ2B120150323|archive-date=6 November 2018}} This had the effect of confusing readers, and suggests that the former president was involved in corruption and the comment was attributed to him. Reuters later confirmed the error, and explained that the comment, originating from one of the local editors, was actually intended for the journalist who wrote the original text in English, and that it should not have been published.{{cite news|date=24 March 2015|title=Podemos tirar, se achar melhor|language=pt|trans-title="We can take it off, if you think it's better"|work=CartaCapital|publisher=Editora Confiança|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/midiatico/podemos-tirar-se-achar-melhor-podemos-2154/|url-status=live|access-date=24 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619213112/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/midiatico/podemos-tirar-se-achar-melhor-podemos-2154/|archive-date=19 June 2019}}

In November 2019, the UK Foreign Office released archive documents confirming that it had provided funding to Reuters during the 1960s and 1970s so that Reuters could expand its coverage in the Middle East. An agreement was made between the Information Research Department (IRD) and Reuters for the UK Treasury to provide £350,000 over four years to fund Reuters' expansion. The UK government had already been funding the Latin American department of Reuters through a shell company, but that method was discounted for the Middle East operation since the accounting of the shell company looked suspicious, and the IRD stated that the company "already looks queer to anyone who might wish to investigate why such an inactive and unprofitable company continues to run."{{cite news|last=Rosenbaum|first=Martin|date=13 January 2020|title=How the UK secretly funded a Middle East news agency|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50637200|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114084803/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50637200|archive-date=14 January 2020}} Instead, the BBC was used to fund the project by paying for enhanced subscriptions to the news organisation for which the Treasury would reimburse the BBC at a later date. The IRD acknowledged that this agreement would not give them editorial control over Reuters, although the IRD believed it would give them political influence over Reuters' work, stating "this influence would flow, at the top level, from Reuters' willingness to consult and to listen to views expressed on the results of its work."{{cite news |last=Faulconbridge|first=Guy |date=13 January 2020|title=Britain secretly funded Reuters in 1960s and 1970s - documents |publisher=Reuters |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-media/britain-secretly-funded-reuters-in-1960s-and-1970s-documents-idUKKBN1ZC20F|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114124853/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-media/britain-secretly-funded-reuters-in-1960s-and-1970s-documents-idUKKBN1ZC20F|archive-date=14 January 2020}}

On 1 June 2020, Reuters announced that Russian news agency TASS had joined its "Reuters Connect" programme, comprising a then-total of 18 partner agencies. Reuters president Michael Friedenberg said he was "delighted that TASS and Reuters are building upon our valued partnership."{{cite web |title=TASS News Agency joins Reuters Connect |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-tass-connect/tass-news-agency-joins-reuters-connect-idUSKBN2381UQ |publisher=Reuters |access-date=21 March 2022 |date=1 June 2020}} Two years later, TASS's membership in Reuters Connect came under scrutiny in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; Politico reported that Reuters staff members were "frustrated and embarrassed" that their agency had not suspended its partnership with TASS.{{cite web |last1=Tani |first1=Max |title=Reuters staff raise alarms over partnership with Russian-owned wire service |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/20/reuters-staff-partnership-russian-wire-service-00018779 |work=Politico |access-date=21 March 2022 |date=20 March 2022}}

On 23 March 2022, Reuters removed TASS from its "content marketplace." Matthew Keen, interim CEO of Reuters said "we believe making TASS content available on Reuters Connect is not aligned with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles."{{cite web |title=Reuters removed TASS from its content marketplace |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-removes-tass-russian-news-agency-its-content-marketplace-2022-03-23/ |publisher=Reuters |date=23 March 2022 |access-date=23 March 2022}}

An investigation by The Intercept, The Nation, and DeSmog found that Reuters is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry.{{cite news|date=December 5, 2023|first1=Amy|last1=Westervelt|first2=Matthew|last2=Green|url=https://theintercept.com/2023/12/05/fossil-fuel-industry-media-company-advertising/|title=Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry's Greenwashing|publisher=The Intercept|access-date=September 1, 2024}} Journalists who cover climate change for Reuters are concerned that conflicts of interest with the companies and industries that caused climate change and obstructed action will reduce the credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to downplay the climate crisis.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100605053548/http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/18/reuters-on-blogtronix Reuters Interactive launches on BTX Enterprise as Reuters Interactive community site]
• Editorials on Reuters' use of 'terrorist': [https://web.archive.org/web/20051109143213/http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001205#reuter The Wall Street Journal{{'}}s James Taranto], [https://archive.today/20020222070239/http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/terrorists.html Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy/U.S. columnist]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070517210424/http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007660 Criticism of references to the Holocaust] from OpinionJournal.com, 9 December 2005
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