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Reuters

Global wire service; center, straight-news style

Owned byOwned by Thomson Reuters Corporation, a publicly traded company (Toronto and New York). The Thomson family's holding company, The Woodbridge Company, controls about 72% of its shares. The Reuters Founders Share Company holds a special share intended to protect the Reuters Trust Principles.
FundingMostly licensing fees from news subscribers, including media outlets, businesses, and governments. Reuters news is one part of Thomson Reuters, which earns most of its revenue from professional software and information services for legal, tax, and corporate customers. Thomson Reuters reported about $7.5 billion in revenue for 2025.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Paul Julius Reuter founded the agency in London in 1851, first sending financial and news telegrams. In 1941 its owners adopted the Reuters Trust Principles, which commit it to independence, integrity, and freedom from bias. The Founders Share Company was set up to guard those principles. Reuters went public in 1984 and merged with Canada's Thomson Corporation in 2008 to form Thomson Reuters, and the Thomson family has controlled it since. Its main business is now financial data and professional information, and the news agency is a smaller part of the group. Reuters has a reputation for restrained, fact-first reporting, and many outlets worldwide republish its copy. It has also drawn criticism, including over its handling of Myanmar-related stories (its two reporters jailed there in 2017–18 won a Pulitzer), and past critics have accused it of a Western-centric view or of cautious language on contested topics. In 2026 its reporters Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Meta. Under the second Trump administration, it has covered policy and the White House's disputes with the press in a mostly straight-news manner, not in an openly partisan one. Its investigations, such as those into government and corporate conduct, are sometimes read as critical, but the agency does not take editorial positions.

Sources

  1. Reuters – Wikipedia
  2. Reuters Group – Wikipedia
  3. Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company Limited
  4. 2026 Pulitzer Prize – Wikipedia
  5. White House launches 'Trump TV' after ban on major news outlets – NPR

Profile compiled 2026-10-13; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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