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Reuters is a leading international multimedia news agency, providing coverage of the day's most important topics including breaking news, business, finance, politics, sports, entertainment and technology. Reuters says its news coverage reaches more than one billion people every day. It delivers news to media organizations around the world and to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops.
The service was founded in October 1851 by Paul Reuter, a German national who emigrated to Britain to start what would be called a 'wire service' because it used a telegraph to distribute news. Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters in 2008, after which the company was renamed Thomson Reuters.
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China Spreads Propaganda via Fake Local News Websites
-- A Beijing public relations firm is using over 100 fake local news websites to spread pro-China content according to the Toronto-based digital watchdog Citizen Lab. The content includes attacks on critics of Beijing and conspiracy theories about the origin of Covid-19. A major source of the disinformation is a press release service called Times Newswire, which contains flattering Chinese state media...
Reuters Report: Only 1 in 4 Americans Trust the News
-- The latest Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford is definitely not good news for the business of journalism.
The global report shows that under half (42%) of people say they trust most news most of the time. By country, trust in the news is highest in Finland (69%) and lowest in the United States (26%).
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America's Diabetes Crisis Spirals Out of Control Greenland Sees Huge One-Day Ice Melt as Temperatures Rise Just 29% of Americans Say They Trust US News Write a Reuters review. Log in now if you are a Mondo Times member. If you are not a member, register for a free Mondo Times basic membership.
-- One in ten Americans - 34 million people - have diabetes and millions are struggling to get the kind of care they need to prevent serious health problems or death. Sedentary living during Covid has made the situation much worse.
Chad Terhune, Robin Respaut and Deborah J. Nelson wrote at Reuters on August 12, 2021:
Out of Control: America's losing battle against diabetes
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, August 16, 2021
-- A total of 22 billion tons of ice melted in Greenland on July 28, 2021 due to warm air trapped over the Arctic island. It is the third-largest one-day loss of ice there since 1950 -- the other two record melts occurred in 2012 and 2019.
Kate Abnett wrote at Reuters on July 30, 2021:
Greenland experienced 'massive' ice melt this week, scientists say
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, July 30, 2021
-- The United States ranks at the very bottom in a new survey of 46 countries with only 29% of American respondents saying they trust most news most of the time. The countries with the highest levels of trust are Finland (65%), Portugal (61%) and Kenya (also 61%). The findings come from the 2021 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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