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Reuters

international news agency
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Summary

Reuters is a news agency[1]. Reuters ranks in the top 0.59% of news agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,569 views/month, #1 of 169).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom[3]
  • Instance of: business[4]
  • Founder: Paul Reuter[5]
  • Owned by: Thomson Reuters[6]
  • Named after: Paul Reuter[7]
  • Headquarters location: London[8]
  • Chief executive officer: Stephen J. Adler[9]
  • Child organization or unit: Reuters TV[10]
  • Commons category: Reuters[11]
  • Industry: telecommunications[12]
  • Inception: October 1, 1851[13]
  • Parent organization or unit: Thomson Reuters[14]
  • Official website: https://www.reuters.com/[15], https://jp.reuters.com/[16], https://uk.reuters.com/[17], https://fr.reuters.com/[18], https://ru.reuters.com/[19], https://in.reuters.com/[20], https://cn.reuters.com/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Reuters[22]
  • Employees: 2500[23]
  • Floruit: January 1, 1998[24], June 1, 1996[25]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[26], Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Perennial sources[27], The Encyclopedia Americana[28]
  • Participant in: The Daphne Project[29]
  • Legal form: private company limited by shares[30], kabushiki gaisha[31]
  • Native label: Reuters[32]
  • Owner of: Effix[33]
  • Different from: Reuters Group[34], Ruters[35]
  • Language used: English[36]

Why It Matters

Reuters has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Reuters is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Reuters is credited with the discovery of CumEx-Files[39], a scandal[40].

FAQs

What did Reuters discover?

Reuters is credited as discoverer of CumEx-Files[39].

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Perennial sources, The Encyclopedia Americana
    Country → —
    Child organization or unit → Reuters TV
    Official website → https://www.reuters.com/, https://jp.reuters.com/, https://uk.reuters.com/ +4
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