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Reuters. Reuters is…. Financial market data provider Provides reports from around the world 200 cities 94 countries 20 languages . Reuters started…. Paul Julius Reuter October 1851 Submarine Telegraph Contract with LSE. Ownership structure. Compromising objectivity
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Reuters is… • Financial market data provider • Provides reports from around the world • 200 cities • 94 countries • 20 languages
Reuters started… • Paul Julius Reuter • October 1851 • Submarine Telegraph • Contract with LSE
Ownership structure • Compromisingobjectivity • 15% limit (late 80`s) • Rupert Murdoch´s NewsCorporation
TheReutersFoundersShareCompany • to protect the integrity • Able to outvote all share-holders
ExpansionofReuters • Rapid growth in 1980s • Bigger range of business products • Bigger global reporting network for media
Thomson Reuters • 15.5.2007- The Thomson Corporation (TC) merged with Reutes • TC holds 53% of new Thomson Reuters • 15% rule waived
Chairman of Reuters Founders Share Company Pehr Gyllenhammar said: “The future of Reuters takes precedece over the principals. If Reuters were not strong enough to continue on its own, the principales would have no meaning”
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