Reuters
International news agency based in London
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2024 | Reuters staff won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses, and the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Gaza war. |
December 2024 | Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site globally, achieving over 105 million monthly readers, highlighting its significant global reach and influence in digital news media. |
March 2024 | Gannett signed an agreement with Reuters to use its global content after cancelling its contract with the Associated Press. |
October 13 2023 | Issam Abdallah, a Lebanese journalist, was killed by Israeli troops in Lebanon |
February 2023 | A team of Reuters journalists won the Selden Ring Award for an investigation exposing human-rights abuses by the Nigerian military. |
March 23 2022 | Reuters removed TASS from its 'content marketplace'. Matthew Keen, interim CEO of Reuters, stated that having TASS content available was not aligned with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, following scrutiny related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
April 2021 | Reuters announced its website would go behind a paywall. |
June 9 2020 | Reuters journalists Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter, and Christopher Bing published an exclusive story incorrectly using an Indian herbal medicine entrepreneur's image in a cybercrime report, leading to the entrepreneur being interrogated by police for nine hours. |
June 1 2020 | Reuters announced that Russian news agency TASS joined its 'Reuters Connect' programme, with Reuters president Michael Friedenberg expressing delight in building upon their partnership. |
March 15 2020 | Steve Hasker was appointed president and CEO of Thomson Reuters. |
November 2019 | UK Foreign Office released archive documents confirming government funding to Reuters during the 1960s and 1970s for expanding Middle East coverage through an agreement with the Information Research Department (IRD). |
March 7 2019 | Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed after 511 days in prison, receiving a presidential pardon. |
2018 | Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were convicted in Myanmar of obtaining state secrets while investigating a Rohingya village massacre. |
2018 | Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo received the Foreign Press Association Media Award and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and were named part of Time Person of the Year. |
November 2016 | Thomson Reuters Corp. eliminated 2,000 jobs worldwide out of its estimated 50,000 employees. |
October 2016 | Thomson Reuters announced expansions and relocations to Toronto. |
July 2016 | Thomson Reuters agreed to sell its intellectual property and science operation for $3.55 billion to private equity firms. |
May 2016 | The Ukrainian website Myrotvorets published personal data of 4,508 journalists, including Reuters reporters, from regions in eastern Ukraine. |
2012 | Jim Smith was appointed CEO of Thomson Reuters. |
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