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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%).
Related to the decline in...
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 Alessandra Galloni Named Reuters Editor-in-Chief Chinese Intel Warns of Foreign Hostility due to Coronavirus George Soros Tells Reuters: I'm Not Dead Yet
Thomson Reuters Journalists Reach Pay Deal, Call Off Strike
Thomson Reuters Journalists Authorize 48-Hour Strike
Reuters named Alwyn Scott financial editor for the Americas, effective January 2012. He previously served as managing editor for the Puget Sound Business Journal. James Smith to Replace Tom Glocer as Thomson Reuters CEO
-- June 2, 2011 -- Knut Engelmann is now Wall Street editor at Reuters. He was previously global company news editor there. May 24, 2011 -- May 11, 2011 -- Steven Schwartz is now global head of business development at Reuters. He was previously chief digital officer at Wenner. Syria Frees Reuters Photographer After Six Days
Reuters Correspondent and Photographer Missing in Syria
Reuters Journalist Killed in Iraq Attack
Two Reuters TV Journalists Missing in Syria
Reuters Investigates Code of Conduct Violations in Financial Reporting
-- October 4, 2010 -- Knut Engelmann is now global news editor at Reuters, effective in November. He was previously bureau chief at Reuters Deutschland, the company's Frankfurt, Germany, bureau. -- August 24, 2010 -- Kenneth Li is now editor, technology, media and telecoms, at Reuters. He was previously media correspondent at Financial Times. Journalist Deaths Hit Record Numbers In 2009
The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is now online and freely available to the public
Last of the Reuters Family Has Died
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-- 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.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, June 29, 2021
-- On April 19, 2021, Alessandra Galloni started work as the new editor-in-chief of the Reuters news agency. Galloni, 47, is the first woman to run the Reuters newsroom. She replaces Stephen J. Adler, who recently retired after a decade on the job.
Reuters wrote on April 13, 2021:
Reuters names Alessandra Galloni as its next editor-in-chief
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, April 22, 2021
-- On May 4, 2020, Reuters reported that China believes international anti-Chinese sentiment is at the highest level since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. A government-sponsored study indicated concern about possible retaliation against China led by the U.S.
The full story:
Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 4, 2020
-- April 25, 2013: On April 18, the Reuters News Agency published an obituary for billionaire investor George Soros. Problem is, the reports of the death of the 82 year-old were, as Mark Twain once wrote, "greatly exaggerated."
The Guardian newspaper of London reported that the story was published for a scant 30 minutes. It begins:
"George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and...
-- The U.K.'s National Union of Journalists and Thomson Reuters management released a joint statement announcing the agreement, which effectively cancels a planned 48-hour strike scheduled to begin the following day.
From the statement, issued February 8, 2012:
"We are pleased to announce that London members of the NUJ today voted to accept an enhanced pay deal and call off industrial action scheduled...
-- After receiving an offer that effectively pegs pay levels below inflation, journalists at Thomson Reuters agreed to stage a 48-hour strike, beginning at a minute past midnight on February 9, 2012.
It is the first strike authorized by Reuters journalists in 25 years.
"We tried very hard to reach a settlement with management bu the company's refusal to improve its below-inflation offer of 1.75...
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, December 16, 2011
-- David Thomson, chairman of Thomson Reuters, announced the news on December 1, 2011. Glocer had been the last top Reuters executive remaining with the company since the Thomson family, from Canada, acquired Reuters in 2008.
"Tom will be remembered as the individual who turned around Reuters ten years ago, led the company to growth and guided its sale to form Thomson Reuters," said Thomson.
Smith,...
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, June 3, 2011
-- Kenneth Li is now editor-in-charge and James Ledbetter op-ed editor at Reuters.com. Li previously headed up the technology team there, while Ledbetter was editor-in-charge.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, May 25, 2011
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, May 13, 2011
-- On April 3, 2011, the news agency reported on the release of Khaled al-Hariri:
"Hariri, 50, who has worked for Reuters for over 20 years in his native Syria, met colleagues in the capital after his release and told them he was well.
He was one of four Reuters journalists held over the last week in Syria, where protesters have been demanding change from President Bashar al-Assad.
The...
-- On March 30, 2011, the news service reported on the dual disappearance, occurring just days after the Syrian government released two other Reuters journalists:
"Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi, a Jordanian national based in Amman, had been detained by the Syrian authorities in Damascus on Tuesday.
Photographer Khaled al-Hariri, a Syrian based in...
-- Sabah al-Bazee, 30, had contributed to Reuters in Iraq since 2004, the news agency reported on March 29, 2011:
"He suffered shrapnel wounds in an explosion, said his cousin Mahmoud Salah, who confirmed his death.
Bazee was a native of Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad.
"On behalf of the entire team at Thomson Reuters, I wish to convey our sadness at the untimely death of...
-- Duo has been missing since the evening of March 26, the news agency reported on March 27, 2011:
"Beirut-based producer Ayat Basma and cameraman Ezzat Baltaji had been expected to cross into Lebanon by road at approximately 1830 GMT (2:30 p.m. ET) on Saturday, where they had arranged for a taxi to pick them up from the border.
The last known contact was at 1722 GMT (1:22 p.m. ET), when...
-- A note on the news agency's web site reads as follows:
"We have recently discovered a number of cases where journalists have written about securities without notifying their interest to their manager; or dealt in securities about which they had written recently or intended to write in the near future; or failed to make disclaimers of their financial interests to readers when their prior practice suggests it would...
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, October 4, 2010
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, August 25, 2010
-- That's according to a December 17, 2009 press release from Reuters:
"The number of journalists killed around the world in 2009 rose to a record 68 after a massacre in the Philippines, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday.
The press freedom group said the 2009 tally compared to 42 deaths in 2008 and surpassed the previous record of 67 deaths in 2007 -- when...
-- Dean Wright of Reuters announced on July 9, 2009:
"In between are 2,211 additional entries in the A-to-Z general style guide, part of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, which we are now making available online. Also included in the handbook are sections on standards and values; a guide to operations; a sports style guide and a section of specialized guidance on such issues as personal investments by journalists, dealing with...
-- On January 25, 2009, Reuters reported that Baroness Reuter, the last link to the Reuters news dynasty, has died:
"LONDON (Reuters) - Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, a European aristocrat from a bygone age and last survivor of the family that founded the international news agency, died on Sunday aged 96, friends said.
A patron of the arts, she was the widow of Oliver, 4th Baron...