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How Reliable is Reuters News Service?

hank
edited June 2019 in Off-Topic
(The following is comprised of extended excerpts from linked source.)


Reuters News Service: Detailed Report: / Factual Reporting: VERY HIGH / Country: United Kingdom

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.”

Funded by / Ownership: “In April 2008, British company Reuters Group was acquired by Thomson Corporation and formed Thomson Reuters. Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, which is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals and is owned by The Woodbridge Company Limited, which owns approximately 62.35% of common shares and is the principal and controlling shareholder of Thomson Reuters ... The Woodbridge Company Limited is based in Toronto, Canada. The chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters is James (Jim) C. Smith, and the chairman is David Thomson, who is also a Chairman of Woodbridge.

Analysis / Bias: “In 2018, Reuters was named the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes on international reporting for exposing the methods of police killing squads in Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and for feature photography documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh ... In reporting, Reuters uses minimally biased emotional language in their headlines ... In most cases Reuters journalists are the primary source of stories and consistently report with minimal bias, covering both sides of issues“.

“A factual search reveals that Reuters has an excellent track record with fact checkers.”

“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.“

The Study (cited above): https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/

Reuters (website): https://www.reuters.com/

Comments

  • davfordavfor
    That evaluation makes sense to me. Reuters is one of about a half dozen general news sites I visit most days in an attempt to obtain a variety of perspectives concerning current events. They provide the most neutral/fact based coverage.
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