Independence, integrity, and freedom from bias.
About Reuters
Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. This information is trusted and drives decision making around the globe. Reuters has a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.
Although Reuters is best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, we derive more than 90% of our revenue from our financial services business. Some 330,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reuters products. They rely on Reuters services to provide them with the information and tools they need to help them be more productive.
Reuters' core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities needed by financial professionals. The company's open technology, based on industry standards, enables customers to search, store and integrate our information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters provides financial institutions with specially designed tools to help them reduce risk and distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data. Reuters electronic trading services connect financial communities, helping them to gain access to the best prices and to trade efficiently and effectively.
Reuters supplies news - text, graphics, video and pictures - to media organizations worldwide. Reuters also provides news to businesses outside financial services as well as directly to consumers.
Key Facts
- Founded in London in 1851
- Around 370,000 professional users
- Approximately 16,900 staff in 94 countries
- World's largest international multimedia news agency-2,400 editorial staff, journalists, photographers and camera operators in 196 bureaus serving approximately 131 countries
- In 2006 Reuters filed over two and a half million news items, including 656,500 alerts, from 209 countries around the world, published in 18 languages
- Real-time updates provided on 5.5 million financial records
- More than 200 million data records maintained and updated containing over 3,000 billion discrete data points (or record fields)
- Information on 35,000 companies worldwide
- Financial information from over 300 exchanges and OTC markets
- Financial data updated over 8,000 times per second, and more than 23,000 times per second at peak times
- More than 4,000 clients contribute prices, opinions and analysis
- Listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ exchanges: RTR and RTRSY (respectively)
- Reuters is dedicated to preserving its independence, integrity and freedom from bias in the gathering and dissemination of news and information
The Reuters Trust Principles
Reuters is dedicated to preserving its independence, integrity and freedom from bias in the gathering and dissemination of news and information.
Under the constitution of the Reuters Founders Share Company, the directors of Reuters Founders Share Company are required to act generally in accordance with the Reuters Trust Principles, and to endeavor to ensure, as far as they are able by the proper exercise of the powers vested in them, that the Reuters Trust Principles are complied with.
The constitution of Reuters Group PLC requires Reuters directors, in the performance of their functions, to have due regard to the Reuters Trust Principles insofar as, by the proper exercise of their powers and in accordance with their other duties as directors, those principles are capable of being observed.
The Reuters Trust Principles are:
- That Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group or faction.
- That the integrity, independence and freedom from bias of Reuters shall at all times be fully preserved.
- That Reuters shall supply unbiased and reliable news services to newspapers, news agencies, broadcasters and other media subscribers and to businesses, governments, institutions, individuals and others with whom Reuters has or may have contracts.
- That Reuters shall pay due regard to the many interests which it serves in addition to those of the media.
- That no effort shall be spared to expand, develop and adapt the news and other services and products of Reuters so as to maintain its leading position in the international news and information business.