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Reuters

Britain's biggest news agency
Reuters (LSE: RTR, NASDAQ: RTRSY) is one of the world's oldest news agencies and the largest news agency in the United Kingdom and the West Four major news agencies One of them. Reuters is one of the top three multimedia companies in the world News wire service It provides all kinds of news and financial data and operates in 128 countries.
Reuters provides news reports to newspapers, television stations and other media, and has a reputation for speed and accuracy. Reuters, on the other hand, provides tools and platforms such as stock prices and Foreign exchange rate , let Trader Can analyze financial data and manage Transaction risk ; And the Reuters system allows customers to buy and sell over the Internet, instead of the telephone or New York Stock Exchange The sales hall and other manual Transaction mode , of its Electronic transaction Services connect the financial community.
Reuters by the Germans Paul Julius Reuter Paul Julius Reuter in Germany in 1850 Aachen It was founded and moved to England the following year London . In 1865, Reuters expanded its private news agency into a large corporation. In 1916 it was reorganized as Reuter Limited. It is known for being fast News report It is widely used in newspapers all over the world.
In November 2014, Reuters announced that the news comment feature of its website would be turned off and readers would be able to access it in the future Social media Or comment on online forums News story . On April 16, 2018, local time in the United States, Reuters was awarded the 2018 year Pulitzer Prize Award for feature photography. [1]
Chinese name
Reuters
Foreign name
Reuters
Home country
Britain
Type of company
Listed company
Establishment time
1851
Head office
London, United Kingdom
president
Neo Fitzgerald
Executive director
Tom Grosser
Chief OPERATING OFFICER
Dwenwei Wenig
Chief financial officer
David Gleason
Editor in chief
David Schlesinger
property
News wire service
product
News, financial market data and analysis
turnover
£2.49 billion (2005)
Number of employees
16,800 people
subsidiary
Instinet
Official website
http://reuters.com/

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The main target of Reuters news coverage is abroad, and its international news is closely aligned with the diplomatic activities of the British government Sports news Also attaches great importance to. Its economic news is mainly business reports for large British and Western companies.
Reuters is Reuters group Part of the Reuters business accounts for 5% of the Reuters Group. It is known for its fast news reports which are widely used by newspapers all over the world. Its shares belong to the representative London Published by a national newspaper Report to owners association (the newspaper publishers association), the pressassociation representing county newspapers, Australia The australian associatedpress and New Zealand Press Association (new zealand press association). All four shareholders are represented on the Reuters board of directors, and between them there is an agreement to ensure what Reuters calls "independence" and "integrity" in news reporting. Trust agreement ".
Reuters news generally has three kinds of urgent express, urgent and ordinary telecommunications. The timeliness of the three messages is decreasing in order, and the length is increasing in order. Express messages are mainly for business users, and express messages are mainly for government agencies and Electronic media Ordinary telecommunications mainly serves subscribers of other news media. [2]

Development history

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Reuters Times Square
Born in Kassel, Germany, in 1849 Paul Julius Reuter Paul Julius Reuter began using carrier pigeons in Achen, Germany, and Belgium Brussels A year later, as a new telegraph line was completed, messages were transmitted by telegraph, and Reuters also took advantage of the newly opened Berlin - Hahn Telegraph lines in these two Between cities Deliver the message.
In October 1851, Reuters established the Telegraph Line Office in the United Kingdom London Stock Exchange Sign a contract, offer Continental Europe the Stock market quotation In exchange for access to UK stock market information. In November of the same year, between Dover, England and Calais, France Submarine cable When this was done, Reuters provided data on the British stock market to France via an undersea cable Paris the Trader .
The popularity of Reuters gradually increased, especially when it was first reported in Europe in 1865 Abraham Lincoln After the news of the assassination. The service content provided by Reuters has also gradually increased to include general and global Financial news In 1923, he established a precedent for the use of radio to disseminate news internationally. Reuter himself became a British citizen in 1857. Reuters has operations in 200 cities in 94 countries and 197 news bureaus around the world, providing news in 19 languages, almost all of the major newspapers News media All subscribe to Reuters news.
In the 1980s, Reuters began to grow rapidly and expand Product range . In 1984, Reuters wrote in London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Go public To become a publicly traded company. A series of acquisitions were made, including Visnews (later renamed Reuters TV) in 1985, Instinet in 1986, and Reuters Television in 1994 TIBCO (later changed to Teknekron) and Quotron.
In the late 1980s, the management of Reuters was in disarray, Information service There are frequent delays. To this end, the company began to improve its information services in early 1992. old Computer system It was replaced by a newer system specifically designed to adapt to the new procedures and earned the company a new reputation. On May 17, 1999, Reuters and the U.S. Dow Jones Company decided to form the Dow Jones Reuters Interactive Business Company to provide information from the Internet in more than 20 languages. Wall Street Journal ", the Dow Jones Company and Reuters News Network, and more than 7,000 business news and information sources around the world.
In 1995, Reuters set up the Greenhouse Fund to make small investments in fledgling technology companies in the United States. Reuters and held in July 1999 Nasdaq The IPO of TIBCO Software and majority shares of Instinet, which also went public in May 2001 in Nasdaq.
In October 2001, Reuters completed the largest acquisition in its history, buying most of the assets of Bridge Information Systems.
On May 15, 2007, Thomson group and Reuters group Issued a statement agreeing on the merger. Reuters shareholders will receive 3.525 pounds in cash and 0.16 Thomson shares for each Reuters share they hold.
On November 9, 2014, Reuters announced that its news commentary feature would be shut down. [3]

honor

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On April 16, 2018, local time in the United States, Reuters was awarded the 2018 year Pulitzer Prize Award for feature photography. [1]

address

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Reuters building
In October 1851, Reuters was in England London Set up an office.
In 1939, the office moved to the famous Fleet Street 39 Fleet Street became the new headquarters.
In 2005, the headquarters moved to a larger building, which is located in Canary Wharf The vacant space in front of the Reuters building was also renamed Reuters Plaza.
Reuter's America Headquartered in the United States New York The Times Square, completed in 2001, is located in 42nd Street At the corner of 7th Avenue is a 30-story building. Asia The headquarters is located in Singapore the Science park , Europe, The Middle East and Africa Headquarters are in... Switzerland .

service

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Reuters' services are divided into four divisions: Buying and Selling, Research and Trading Asset management , corporate and media, where more than 90% of revenue comes from Financial services business : For stocks, Foreign exchange rate , and the analysis, processing and transmission of information such as bonds, and Related products The development of...

Message classification

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Urgent news
It's a form of news broadcast by Reuters. It can interrupt normal broadcast priority. Reuters continues to focus on the needs of its subscribers in choosing what kind of news to send out an urgent telegram. On account of Economic circles With a large proportion of subscribers, the Reuters newsletter is not limited to particularly important international events, but also includes everything that may occur on all types of trading markets Significant impact The news of...
Urgent telegram
In time and importance, it is used for reporting more important news events. All kinds of urgent messages News element More complete, but still relatively simple, just covering the news itself, okay Background material Or scene description.
Common telecommunications
That is, the news that is broadcast under normal circumstances. So as to Guaranteed prescription Reuters's articles are generally short, usually only one article reports a dynamic, and only comprehensive articles are compiled for major events.

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The board of directors consists of 1 chairman and 3 members Managing director (executive directors) and eight non-executive directors (Non-executive Directors). The board of directors holds a meeting every six months, and the directors take turns to preside over the meeting to discuss financial and financial issues Operation and management The problem of... The day-to-day administration is the responsibility of the executive committee. The Executive Committee consists of the general manager, two deputy general managers, two assistant deputy general managers and six chief editors. The general manager is appointed by the Board of directors, and the news business is presided over by the Editor-in-Chief.
Reuters is nominally private Business owner All, effectively controlled by the government, is the official mouthpiece of the United Kingdom. Reuters News report Its main target is abroad, and its international news is closely aligned with the diplomatic activities of the British government Sports news Also attaches great importance to. its Economic news mainly Business condition Reports for big business in the UK and the West.
By 1980, there were 2,595 employees, of whom more than 1,000 were domestic. There are 532 journalists and 551 technical staff. It has a total of 122 bureaus in 75 foreign countries Country and region dispatched Resident correspondent About 370. Where there are no bureaus, Reuters employs more than 1,000 locals as its part-time reporters or reporters. It has 183 of its own bureaus and adjunct reporters. It has also established operational links with more than 120 national or private news agencies to expand its sources of information. It has links with some 1,500 foreign newspapers.
Reuters daily Contribution agreement 700,000 words. In addition to general news, economic news and Sports news Account for a large proportion. 24 hours a day, through electrons computer Control by TV, telex And mimeograph form, to the world famous banks, brokers and Industrial and commercial enterprise Provide economic and financial information. reuters economic services has a place in the world. Of its total revenue, 85 percent comes from selling economic news and 15 percent from domestic revenue.

Press team

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Every year, Reuters recruits dozens of new people from local newspaper reporters, editors and university journalism graduates for a trial period of six months, and the qualified ones are formally hired and continued training. Reuters has a team of thousands of journalists who cover major stories around the world, sometimes at the cost of their lives.
In the late 1960s, Anthony Grey became one of the first modern political hostages when he was imprisoned in Beijing for reporting on the Cultural Revolution Red Guard He was released after two years and two months in prison. In May 2000, an American journalist, Kurt Schork, was killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone. In April and August 2003, news photographers Taras Protsyuk and Mazen Dana were shot and killed by U.S. troops in Iraq. In 2004, photographers Adlan Khasanov and Dhia Najim, respectively Chechen Republic and Iraq Die. August 28, 2005, television Sound engineer Walid Khaled was in the You.s. Army in Iraq checkpoint He was shot and killed by the American troops, and a photographer, Cadham, was also shot and wounded. After the incident, he was detained for questioning by US forces.
On August 7, 2006, one Lebanon Journalist Adnan Hajj was implicated in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict News photo Haji's computer manipulated the smoke to make it darker and larger, but he denied altering the photos, saying he only wanted to remove dust from the photos. Reuters news editor Paul Holmes said: "The company believes that removing the dust from the image will not cause the image to look like this." After the discovery of the incident, Reuters announced the withdrawal of 920 copies of the commercial News picture And released the journalist.

Technology center

Reuters and Associated Press are housed in the same building (85 Fleet Street), and there is a division of Labour between them, with Reuters focusing on international news and Associated Press on international news National news . International news from Reuters is sent directly to national newspapers published in London, and is recompiled by the Associated Press for distribution to local newspapers. Most of the Reuters reports on events in Britain were provided by the Associated Press, which selectively reedited them for publication. The mutual contribution between them is also a commercial transaction and needs to be paid Payment for an article written by an author . Because of this relationship, Reuters only operates in the country outside of London Manchester There is one branch, if there is a major event in other places, the head office will temporarily send reporters to cover it. The Associated Press is from Reuters Substantial shareholder One, there are no journalists abroad.

Data center

In order to ensure Reuters News in World market The position which has been occupied, especially in order to secure it a highly profitable economy
News can be delivered in a timely manner in any situation, and Reuters has built a technical center in London, which was opened in late 1979. The center transmits news to subscribers around the world through 60 electronic computers and 5,000 lines. Another technology center of the same size is located Geneva . Reuters took it all Communication equipment They were replaced with two sets of devices, so that even if one set of devices fails, the other set of devices can be automatically activated.

Branch office

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Head Office United Kingdom

Reuters web interface
Reuters Limited
85 Fleet Street
Iondon, EC4P 4 AJ
United Kingdom
Telephone 071 250 1122

Main branch

America
Reuters America Inc
1700 Broadway
New York , NY 10019
United States
Telephone 212 603 3300
Japan
Reuters Japan Limited
5th Floor, Shuwa Kamiyacho
Building
4-3-13 Toranomon
Minato-ku
Tokyo 105
Japan
Telephone 3 3432 4141
Asia other
Reuters Asia Limited
5th Floor, Gloucester Tower
11 Pedder Street, Central
Hong Kong
Telephone 852 843 6363
Europe
Reuters ( Europe ) SA
1 Rue de Jargonnant
1207 Geneva
Switzerland
Telephone 22 718 2828
The Middle East
Reuters Building
Reuters Middte East Limited
George and Thelma Paraske-
vaides
Foundation Building
36 Grivas Dighenis Avenue
Nicosia
Cyprus
Telephone 2 365087
Instinet
Instinet Corporation
757 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
United States
Telephone 212 310 9500
Reuters Television
Cumberland Avenue
Park Royal
London, NW10 7EH
United Kingdom

Group merger

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Thomson and Reuters group The merger (April 18, 2008) was officially completed and the shares of the new company will begin trading in London, Toronto And the New York market Listed transaction . The financial information giant, called Thomson Reuters, is said to be the main rival to Bloomberg News, both Market share Both are about a third.
Thomson is paying about $16 billion in cash and stock Reuters group After the merger Company headquarters Will be based in New York, the two companies announced the merger 11 months ago. Glocer, CEO of the new company, said the new company will focus on consolidating overlapping operations and personnel in the United States, especially in New York.
Glocer reiterated that the company expects to achieve annual savings of $500 million in three years. He added that Reuters' business was relatively unscathed Credit crunch The impact of...

Activity communication

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President of Reuters, September 11, 2019 Mike Friedenberg Visited Xinhua News Agency and discussed with Xinhua News Agency President CAI Mingzhao on further deepening and expanding cooperation between the two agencies Technological progress In-depth exchange of views on the importance of media development. Friedenberg and his delegation visited New China Media Creative workshop watched Media brain Live cloud and AI synthetic anchor Demo, listen about omnimedia Introduction to the system of collecting, editing, publishing and contributing. Reuters wants to expand with Xinhua Strategic cooperation Further strengthen exchanges and cooperation in space, especially in new technologies such as video and media artificial intelligence. [4]

Related event

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Related event
On the evening of November 18, 2021, Reuters forwarded an "exclusive report" on the social platform claiming that "Chinese professors at top European universities collaborated with a Chinese military laboratory to study the brains of monkeys by exposing them to extreme altitude conditions to develop a new drug to prevent brain damage." The post was accompanied by a photo of a PLA soldier taking oxygen indoors. [5]
November 20, 2021, given by Reuters Global Times Sent an email saying they had seen an incident about an incorrect caption used by Reuters in a story Chinese netizens Reports of public outrage. Reuters said in an email that it "immediately" deleted the post and corrected it as soon as it became aware of the error, adding that "we apologize for any offense this has caused." [5]