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The news, with the spin made visible.
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Reuters (via affiliate reprint)

international center

Owned byThomson Reuters Corporation, majority-owned (~72%) by The Woodbridge Company Limited, the private holding company of the Thomson family of Canada; remaining shares are publicly traded on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange
FundingPrimarily B2B wire-service subscriptions (media companies, financial firms, governments); supplemented by advertising and, since October 2024, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription ($1/week) for its 45–50 million monthly website visitors
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Reuters was founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur who recognized that the electric telegraph could move financial news faster than horses or ships. Reuter built an early reputation for speed and accuracy — his agency was first to bring Abraham Lincoln's assassination to European audiences. The agency merged with the British Press Association in 1925 to form Reuters Limited and expanded into a global cooperative owned by British and Commonwealth news publishers. In 2008, the Canadian Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters Group for approximately $17 billion, creating Thomson Reuters Corporation, which is now a major provider of legal, financial, and news information services with annual revenues around $7.5 billion. Reuters News — the journalism division — operates under the Reuters Trust Principles, first adopted in 1941, which formally commit the organization to independence, integrity, and freedom from bias. Independent bias trackers including AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check consistently rate Reuters as center or least-biased, though an April 2026 AllSides blind survey found Republican respondents perceive it as leaning left, particularly on immigration coverage. Reuters has won multiple Pulitzer Prizes and is counted among the top five globally trusted news brands in annual surveys by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Sources

  1. Reuters Media Bias | AllSides
  2. AllSides Blind Bias Survey — Bloomberg, Bulwark, Telegraph, Reuters, CBN (March/April 2026)
  3. Reuters – Bias and Credibility | Media Bias/Fact Check
  4. Reuters – Wikipedia
  5. Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
  6. Who Owns Reuters? | Quantumrun
  7. Reuters Goes Direct To Consumer in Diversification Bid | A Media Operator
  8. Trump Administration's 'Media Bias' List Raises Alarm | CPJ
  9. Thomson Reuters Corp — Form 40-F FY2025 | SEC

Profile compiled 2026-07-11; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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