UK / Global · Bias: Wire service
Thomson Reuters Corporation
Paul Reuter founded this news service in London in 1851 using, among other things, carrier pigeons to relay stock prices between Brussels and Aachen faster than the mail — before switching to telegraph cables once the lines caught up. Today it runs about 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists across 200 locations in 165 countries, one of the largest reporting operations on the planet. Because Reuters sells its raw wire copy to thousands of other news outlets rather than chasing its own mass audience, it has far less incentive to spin a headline than almost anyone else in this guide — which makes it a genuinely useful baseline: read the plain Reuters version of any story, then see how much "flavor" your favorite outlet added on top.
Reuters sends its journalists into the exact places most news organizations pull back from — and pays for it in the most literal way possible. In October 2023, Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah, a veteran of conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, was killed by Israeli shelling while covering clashes on the Lebanon border. In 2025, Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri was among several journalists killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital. The purpose behind putting reporters in that much danger is the entire Reuters business model: raw, first-hand, wire-service facts from the actual front line, not a studio thousands of miles away. Israel has killed more journalists than any government on record since the Committee to Protect Journalists began counting in 1992, making the current conflict the deadliest era for war correspondents in modern history — Reuters staff included.
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