Organizations

Reuters

ROY-terz

News Agency

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Reuters." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/organizations/reuters.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Reuters. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/organizations/reuters

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-reuters,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Reuters},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/organizations/reuters},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The international news agency founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier used carrier pigeons to bridge a gap in the telegraph line. Selling fast, factual dispatches to newspapers everywhere, Reuters helped invent the wire service model on which the world's press still runs.

Facts

Founding Year

1851 1

Headquarters

London 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Newspapers

The wire services grew up serving newspapers and now serve every news medium.

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source

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