Outlet profile

Reuters (via Yahoo Finance)

international center / wire service

Owned byThomson Reuters Corporation; majority-controlled by the Thomson family of Canada through their private holding company, The Woodbridge Company Limited (approximately 72% of shares outstanding)

FundingB2B subscriptions — news and data feeds sold to media companies, financial institutions, and law firms; content licensing including AI training-data deals; advertising on reuters.com; parent company Thomson Reuters derives its dominant revenues from legal research (Westlaw), tax, and financial data platforms, which dwarf news revenue

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Reuters was founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur who used telegraph cables and carrier pigeons to deliver commercial and financial news across Europe, quickly earning a reputation for speed and accuracy. It grew into one of the world's premier international wire agencies, supplying news to thousands of outlets worldwide rather than publishing primarily for a general consumer audience. The Reuters Trust Principles were codified in 1941 to guarantee editorial independence and prevent any single political or commercial interest from gaining control of the agency. Reuters traded publicly as Reuters Group PLC for decades before the Canadian Thomson Corporation acquired it in 2008, creating Thomson Reuters Corporation. The Thomson family has retained majority ownership through Woodbridge ever since, and Thomson Reuters reported approximately $7.5 billion in revenue for 2025, with Reuters News representing only a fraction of that alongside much larger legal, tax, and financial data divisions. Yahoo Finance and thousands of other digital platforms republish Reuters articles under standard wire-service licensing arrangements, making Reuters content widely visible without a dedicated Reuters audience. AllSides rated Reuters 'Center' after a March/April 2026 Blind Bias Survey, though respondents identifying as right-leaning or Republican tended to perceive it as slightly left of center; the White House added Reuters to its 'media bias' page in 2025, reflecting the administration's view of its coverage as unfavorable.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-06-30; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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