Reuters

LEAST BIASED
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- Overall, we rate Reuters Least Biased based on objective reporting and Very High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information with minimal bias and a clean fact check record.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating:
LEAST BIASED
Factual Reporting:
VERY HIGH
Country:
United Kingdom
Press Freedom Rank:
MOSTLY FREE
Media Type:
News Agency
Traffic/Popularity:
High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating:
HIGH CREDIBILITY
History
Founded in 1851,
Reuters is the world’s leading international multimedia news agency. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Reuters was founded by
Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born immigrant who moved to London and opened an office that transmitted stock market quotations between London and Paris via the new Calais-Dover cable. He had previously used pigeons to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, which was also common to dispatch news. However, the
Agence Havas (the predecessor of today’s
AFP) was the first to start using the Morse telegraph. According to an article titled
”CHRONOLOGY: Reuters, from pigeons to multimedia merger,” overland telegraph and undersea cables enabled Reuters to expand its service beyond Europe to the Far East in 1872 and South America by 1874.
During both World Wars, Reuters came under pressure from the British government to serve British interests. In 1941 Reuters avoided this pressure by restructuring itself as a private company.
Stephen J. Adler is the President and Editor-in-Chief of Reuters.
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