Thomson Reuters
Canadian multinational information conglomerate
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| February 25 2025 | Thomson Reuters commenced trading as a Nasdaq-listed security. |
| February 25 2025 | Commenced trading as a Nasdaq-listed security. |
| February 24 2025 | Ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange at market close. |
| February 13 2025 | Announced plan to switch US stock listing from NYSE to Nasdaq Global Select Market. |
| January 2025 | Thomson Reuters acquired SafeSend, a U.S. tax filing software for $600M. |
| 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. |
| October 2024 | Announced selling its FindLaw business to Internet Brands. |
| 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 |
| June 2023 | Agreed to acquire Casetext, a provider of AI technology for legal professionals, in an all-cash deal worth $650 million, with the acquisition completed in August 2023. |
| February 2023 | A team of Reuters journalists won the Selden Ring Award for an investigation exposing human-rights abuses by the Nigerian military. |
| January 3 2023 | Acquired SurePrep, a US-based leader in 1040 tax automation software and services. |
| June 30 2022 | Francisco Partners completed the acquisition of Watson Health and launched a new healthcare data company named Merative. |
| April 2022 | Acquired Gestta Technology Ltda, an accounting automation software. |
| 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. |
| 2020 | Three Reuters investigative journalists (Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing, and Jack Stubbs) mistakenly photographed and reported on Kumar, an Indian herbal businessman, in connection with an investigation about a hack-for-hire company. This led to Kumar being questioned by police, suffering reputation damage and business loss, and ultimately relocating to a small town. Reuters later admitted to the error of mistaken identity. |
| 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. |
| February 2020 | A group of Thomson Reuters shareholders criticized the company's involvement with ICE for immigrant tracking. |
| 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). |
| November 2019 | Legal scholars and human rights activists called on Thomson Reuters to stop providing access to CLEAR database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Palantir Technologies, citing concerns about immigrant deportations. |
| March 7 2019 | Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed after 511 days in prison, receiving a presidential pardon. |
| 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. |
| 2018 | Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were convicted in Myanmar of obtaining state secrets while investigating a Rohingya village massacre. |
| 2018 | Thomson Reuters restructured its organizational structure, consolidating operations into four primary divisions: Legal, Reuters News Agency, Tax & Accounting, and Government. |
| January 2018 | Announced divestment of its financial and risk unit to Blackstone Group, retaining 45% ownership and creating a joint venture branded as Refinitiv. |
| 2016 | Thomson Reuters completed a $3.55 billion deal to spin off its Intellectual Property and Science division as an independent company, selling it to private-equity firms Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia. |
| 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. |
| February 18 2016 | IBM Corporation acquired Truven Health Analytics and merged it with IBM's Watson Health unit. |
| October 2013 | Thomson Reuters announced an additional job cut of 3,000 positions, primarily in the legal, financial, and risk divisions. |
| February 2013 | Thomson Reuters announced plans to cut 2,500 jobs in its legal, financial, and risk divisions to reduce costs. |
| January 3 2013 | Announced acquisition of Practical Law Company, a London-based provider of legal workflow tools with over 750 employees. |
| 2012 | Jim Smith was appointed CEO of Thomson Reuters. |
| 2012 | Thomson Reuters sold its Healthcare division to Veritas Capital, who subsequently renamed the business Truven Health Analytics. |
| December 2012 | European Commission adopted a decision making legally binding Thomson Reuters' commitments to create a new license allowing customers to use Reuters Instrument Codes with alternative datafeed competitors. |
| January 2012 | Acquired Dr Tax, Canada's largest independently owned developer of income tax software. |
| December 8 2011 | Acquired Emochila, a website development firm, to integrate its CS suite of products onto a cloud-based platform. |
| August 2011 | Thomson Reuters acquired GFMS. |
| August 2011 | Acquired GFMS. |
| July 18 2011 | Acquired Manatron from Thoma Bravo. |
| June 20 2011 | Acquired CorpSmart from Deloitte. |
| 2010 | Thomson Reuters was ranked first in Interbrand's ranking of Canadian corporate brands. |
| November 22 2010 | Acquired the legal process outsourcing provider Pangea3, Highline Financial, and GeneGo, a supplier of systems biology databases, software and services. |
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