Reuters
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Reuters
International news agency based in London
This article is about the Reuters news agency. For the current parent company, see Thomson Reuters. For the former parent company prior to its 2008 acquisition by The Thomson Corporation, see Reuters Group.
Reuters (ROY-tə(r)z) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.[4][5] It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages.[6] Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.[7][8]
The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German baronPaul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada in 2008, which merged to form the Thomson Reuters Corporation.[8]
In December 2024, Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site in the world, with over 105 million monthly readers.[9]
History
19th century
Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the
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Biography
Local politicians in the “age of extremes”
Anyone who studies Ernst Reuter will encounter a talented and versatile politician who was exceptionally committed to the concerns of the people in his city. But it would do him a disservice to reduce his life merely to these aspects. Beyond local politics, the major turning points of the last century were concentrated within his biography, reflecting not only the fate of Berlin but also the “age of extremes” (Eric Hobsbawm). Reuter came to understand the nature of totalitarian regimes as well as the value of liberal Western democracy. The extent to which the twists and turns of the early twentieth century were intertwined with Reuter’s life is illustrated by the fact that he knew Lenin and Stalin personally, and later met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the White House as a spokesman for “free Berlin”.
While Ernst Reuter initially found his way into the Social Democratic Party of Germany (the SPD) as a young man, his experience of the Russian revolution in 1917 led to his political radicalization. After a period as a
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Berlin, Germany
Cambridge, England
Biography
Harry Reuter was always known by this name but he published under the name G E H Reuter. He was the son of Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (1889-1953) and Charlotte Gertrud Herta Scholz (1901-1977). Ernst Reuter, the son of Karl Georg Wilhelm Reuter and his wife Auguste Elise Wilhelmine Karoline, married Charlotte Gertrud Herta Scholz on 7 January 1920, the day she became nineteen years old. Charlotte was the daughter of Oskar Scholz and his wife Klara Friederike Dorothee. When Ernst and Charlotte's two children were born Ernst was First Secretary of the Berlin section of the German Communist Party. The children were Hella, born 1920, and HarrCopyright ©hubdebt.pages.dev 2025