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.
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The wire services grew up serving newspapers and now serve every news medium.
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Reuters supplies news photography alongside text and video.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Reuters ( ROY-tərz) is a British news agency wholly owned by Thomson Reuters, a multinational information conglomerate.
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Reuters is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters.
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