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Reuters (via U.S. News & World Report)

international center

Owned byReuters is a division of Thomson Reuters Corporation, whose controlling shareholder is the Woodbridge Company — the private holding vehicle of the Canadian Thomson family, which owned approximately 71% of Thomson Reuters shares as of April 2026. U.S. News & World Report is a separate private company owned by real estate and media developer Mortimer B. (Mort) Zuckerman, with Eric Gertler serving as executive chairman and CEO.
FundingReuters earns revenue primarily through subscription and licensing fees paid by news organizations, financial institutions, and corporations worldwide — not through advertising. U.S. News & World Report, which publishes Reuters wire content alongside its own work, is funded through digital advertising, paid subscriptions, and licensing of its college, hospital, and other consumer rankings products.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur, founded the Reuters news agency in London in 1851, initially using telegraph lines and carrier pigeons to transmit financial data to banks and businesses. Reuters expanded rapidly — reaching Asia by 1872 and South America by 1874 — and became one of the world's three dominant wire services alongside the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. It was the first service to report Abraham Lincoln's assassination to European audiences in 1865. In 2008, the Thomson Corporation of Canada acquired Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters; the Thomson family's Woodbridge Company has remained the majority shareholder ever since. U.S. News & World Report was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence as United States News and merged with World Report magazine in 1948 to take its current name; real estate developer Mort Zuckerman purchased it in 1984 and it has been privately held since. Both outlets have shifted heavily to digital platforms in recent years, with U.S. News leaning into rankings, data, and consumer-advice content that now generates much of its traffic. Reuters drew notable internal controversy in 2024–2025 when a group of current and former staff accused management of slanting coverage of the Israel-Hamas war; independent ratings organizations continued to classify Reuters as center or minimally biased through that period.

Sources

  1. Reuters – Wikipedia
  2. Thomson Reuters – Wikipedia
  3. Reuters – Bias and Credibility, Media Bias/Fact Check
  4. Reuters Media Bias | AllSides
  5. Reuters Bias and Reliability | Ad Fontes Media
  6. U.S. News & World Report – Wikipedia
  7. Who Owns Thomson Reuters? – MatrixBCG.com
  8. Eric Gertler – Executive Chairman & CEO, U.S. News & World Report

Profile compiled 2026-06-26; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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