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Reuters
(
ROY
-terz
) is a
British
news agency
owned by
Thomson Reuters Corporation
.
[1]
[2]
It
employs
around 2,500
journalists
and 600
photojournalists
in about 200 locations
worldwide
.
[3]
[4]
Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.
[5]
[6]
The agency was
established
in
London
in 1851 by the
German
-born
Paul Reuter
. It was bought by the
Thomson Corporation
of
Canada
in 2008.
[6]
Paul Reuter
worked at a book-
publishing
firm in
Berlin
. He gave out radical
pamphlets
at the beginning of the
Revolutions in 1848
. In 1850, Reuter developed a news service in
Aachen
using
homing pigeons
and electric
telegraphy
from 1851 on.
[7]
Reuter moved to
London
in 1851 and established a
news wire agency
at the
London Royal Exchange
. Reuter's company covered topics like
commercial
news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and
business
firms.
[8]
Reuter's company started becoming famous for reporting on important topics first many times.
[9]
For example, it was the first in
Europe
to report
Abraham Lincoln
's
assassination
in 1865.
[10]
[11]
In 1872, Reuter's expanded into the
Far East
, followed by
South America
in 1874.
[12]
In 1878, Reuter
retired
as
managing director
. He was replaced by his eldest son,
Herbert de Reuter
.
[13]
In 1883, Reuter's began transmitting messages electrically to London
newspapers
.
[12]
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 and the company was renamed to "Reuters Limited", removing the
apostrophe
.
[14]
In 1925, the
Press Association
(PA) of
Great Britain
became very interested in Reuters and some years later got full ownership.
[15]
In 1945, Reuters was the first broadcasting company to broadcast news of
Heinrich Himmler
's attempts to
negotiate
with the western allies through
Count Bernadotte
, a
Swedish
nobleman
.
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