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17 unusual facts about Reuters


A Dispatch from Reuter's

-- It's spelled "Reuter's", not "Reuters", in the opening credits, despite the poster and lobby card. !--> is a 1940 biographical film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name.

Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven

After 23 April 1945, when Hitler's communications staff began to desert, he had to improvise and he based his intelligence reports on information he was able to gather from the Allied news agencies Reuters and the BBC.

Casa Santa Museum

On international television, it was covered by two news agencies, Reuters and Associated Press.

Communications Korea

It was established in Seoul, Korea, by Kyong Hae Kim, called as 'Father of Public Relations in Korea,' who is also a former Reuters Correspondent and Senior Editor at the Korea Herald, in 1987.

Erotic Dream

The 2012 convention was the subject of a report by Reuters regarding the Greek economic crisis.

Farah City District

"Khake-e Sefid district fell into Taliban hands without any resistance from Afghan forces," Qadir Daqiq, a Farah provincial council member at the time told Reuters.

Georgian swimming

Georgian records were set for TV reporting purchases by Reuters and the Associated Press.

Manuello Paganelli

As he began a freelance career, his regular clients included the Washington Post, USA Today, and Reuters.

Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

In January 2005, the authority caused a minor stir when it sent a letter to 41,000 people with a number purported to be a customer service line but, according to Reuters, callers "found themselves calling a sex line where they could speak with 'exciting people', such as lonely housewives, students and fantasy girls for $US2.99 a minute."

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The first Reuters journalist to be taken hostage in action was Anthony Grey.

In July 2013, David Fogarty, former Reuters climate change correspondent in Asia, resigned after a career of almost 20 years with the company and wrote about a "climate of fear" which resulted in "progressively, getting any climate change-themed story published got harder" following comments from then deputy editor-in-chief Paul Ingrassia that he was a "climate change sceptic."

Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode

Reuters, the organization that floated the first draft of SCSU, is believed to use SCSU internally.

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

Vidas Opostas

Reuters and the Wall Street Journal even reported the fact, suggesting that the show has attained considerable success because of violent scenes, unlike most other Brazilian soap operas.

Wilkins Sound

On 20 January 2009, Reuters reported that the ice shelf could collapse into the ocean within "weeks or months".

Williams FW27

BMW Williams went into 2005 season with renewed major sponsorships such as Allianz, FedEx, HP, Reuters, ORIS, Hamleys, Budweiser, Petrobras and Castrol.

Williams FW29

The FW29 continues the blue and white colour scheme set by previous Williams cars with a number of sponsors, such as RBS and Reuters, being retained for the 2007 season along with a number of new sponsors, including the team's new title sponsors AT&T as well as Lenovo, a computer manufacturer from China.


3 News

3 News uses the international and domestic news sources of ITV News, Sky News, Channel 4 (UK), CBS News, Reuters, Seven News and Sky News New Zealand.

5th Battle of Gao

A correspondent for Reuters claims to have seen in the city four jihadists, including two armed with Kalashnikovs, a third with a grenade launcher RPG-7 and one dressed last in a bomb belt.

Baghdad Bulletin

The newspaper had a full-time reporting pool of Iraqis and Westerners, many of whom were young Oxbridge graduates who had previously written for Associated Press, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters and the Evening Standard.

Bradley Burston

Burston worked for Reuters in the 1990s, reporting on the Arab–Israeli peace process and Israeli politics.

Cellulosic ethanol

"The production of cellulosic ethanol represents not only a step toward true energy diversity for the country, but a very cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels. It is advanced weaponry in the war on oil," said Vinod Khosla, managing partner of Khosla Ventures, who recently told a Reuters Global Biofuels Summit that he could see cellulosic fuel prices sinking to $1 per gallon within ten years.

Elliott wave principle

Finance professor Roy Batchelor and researcher Richard Ramyar, a former Director of the United Kingdom Society of Technical Analysts and formerly Global Head of Research at Lipper and Thomson Reuters Wealth Management, studied whether Fibonacci ratios appear non-randomly in the stock market, as Elliott's model predicts.

European Press Prize

The jury will be chaired by Harry Evans, editor-at-large of Thomson Reuters and the former editor of the Sunday Times, and the other members of the jury are Sylvie Kauffmann, former editor-in-chief of Le Monde and also board member of the Global Editors Network and Yevgenia Albats, editor-in-chief of the Russian New Times.

Evans Wadongo

Evans Wadongo and his story have been featured on CNN, BBC, AFP, The New Yorker, China Central Television, Reuters, France 24, Discovery Channel, MBC South Korea, Deutsche Welle, German Radio, Russian State TV, Huffington Post among other international media channels.

Graham Perkin

It also led him into senior roles in the newspaper industry, as a director (from 1966) of Australian Associated Press, its chairman in 1970-72, and a director of Reuters Ltd, London, in 1971-74.

Guglielmo Stefani

Agenzia Stefani (Agenzia Telegrafica Stefani) was founded by Stefani in Turin, Italy in 1854, at a time when news agencies were also being established in other major European cities: Charles-Louis Havas established the Havas agency in Paris in 1836, Dr. Bernard Wolff established an agency in Berlin in 1849, and Paul Reuter established Reuters in London in 1858 (relocating from Aachen, where it had been established in 1851).

IPTC Information Interchange Model

Other speakers included photographers such as David Riecks and Peter Krogh, photo and news agencies such as Reuters; representatives of standards bodies such as PLUS, IPTC, and IFRA; as well as spokespersons from the photo metadata implementers side, such as Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Canon Inc., FotoWare AS, Hasselblad, and Microsoft.

Jack Atley

Atley began shooting professionally at the age of 18 (beginning at The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper) and he has worked for international picture agencies (Getty Images, Bloomberg, Reuters and AP).

Lado Gurgenidze

Prior to Putnam Lovell, Gurgenidze served as Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and held other positions at ABN Amro advising such clients as Swift, Reuters, Moneyline Telerate, Wirtualna Polska, Marconi, Andrew Corporation, Merloni Elettrodomestici, News Corp, Global One, Golden Telecom and UPC.

Matthias Rath

In 2005, according to Reuters, Rath's foundation distributed tens of thousands of pamphlets in poor black South African townships, such as Khayelitsha, claiming that HIV medication was "poison" and urging HIV-positive people instead to use vitamins such as those Rath sells to treat HIV/AIDS.

Mazen Dana

Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer described the death as "hard to bear" and issued a statement "personally calling upon the highest levels of the U.S. government for a full and comprehensive investigation into this terrible tragedy".

Meutya Hafid

Other finalists in the same category were Avian Tumengkol (William Angliss Institute), a special vice presidential of foreign affairs, Wishnutama Kusubandio (Kooralbyn International School) a Director of Trans 7, Mohammad Sobary (Monash University) an Executive Director of Kemitraan; and Rahmad Nasution (University of Queensland), Jakarta chief bureau of Reuters.

Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora

Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora and Reuters Correspondent Kurt Schork were shot to death in an ambush to a Sierra Leone Army (SLA) convoy by the fighters of the Revolutionary United Front on May 24, 2000.

Mixx

Mixx partnered with an online publishing outlets including CNN.com, USA Today, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The Weather Channel.

Mongolian legislative election, 2012

The MPRP campaigned on a platform of "resource nationalism." Reuters suggested its participation in government could impact the mining sector, including the Tavan Tolgoi coal project, which the MPRP wants controlled by Mongolians.

Monique Villa

In 2008, Villa was appointed CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, after the acquisition of Reuters Group by The Thomson Corporation.

Names of Burma

In spite of the usage by the US government, American news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and CNN, and US-based international news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters have adopted the name "Myanmar".

Netocracy

The concept was later picked up by the Swedish philosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist for their book Netocracy — The New Power Elite and Life After Capitalism (originally published in Swedish in 2000 as Nätokraterna - boken om det elektroniska klassamhället, published in English by Reuters/Pearsall UK in 2002).

On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

Shortly after conclusion of the speech, reports of its having taken place and its general content were conveyed to the West by Reuters journalist John Rettie, who had been informed of the event a few hours before he was due to leave for Stockholm; it was therefore reported in the Western media in early March.

Oren Etzioni

Etzioni is an entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded several business ventures, including MetaCrawler (bought by Infospace), Netbot (bought by Excite), and Clearforest (bought by Reuters).

Peter Högl

On the evening of 28 April, the BBC broadcast a Reuters news report about Himmler's attempted negotiations with the western Allies via Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden.

Philippe Quint

His live performances and interviews have been broadcast on CBS, CNN, ABC, BBC, NBC, Reuters, Bloomberg TV, NPR, WNYC and WQXR.

Pregnancy after a loss

Along with working for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Reuters, and Vatican Radio in Italy she received her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas, planning on specializing in public health research.

Reuters Market Data System

The latest version of RMDS, version 6, includes Reuters Wire Format (RWF) as a major improvement to Marketfeed (MF) used in RMDS version 5 and prior technologies like Triarch, TIB.

Richard Streeton

He remained at Reuters for over a decade, where his assignments included the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City; England cricket tours to Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies; and the Monte Carlo Rally.

Romani people in France

Reuters reported that a charter plane flew 240 Romani, including children, back to Bucharest, Romania, from Lyon.

Sandy Gall

In 1972 he was arrested with his Reuters colleague Nicholas Moore in Uganda and held for three days in the Makindye police camp.

Stuart Mitchell

In 2005, the Mitchell's received media coverage from Reuters, ITN, BBC, and CNN/Fox News when they claimed to have deciphered a musical code carved into the ceiling design of Rosslyn Chapel.

United Nations Operation in Somalia II

The journalists were Hansi Krauss of Associated Press and Dan Eldon, Hos Maina and Anthony Macharia, all of Reuters.

United World College of the Adriatic

Chrystia Freeland (born 1968), Member of the Canadian Parliament and former Thomson Reuters managing director.