Reuters

Some of the key events about Reuters

• 1851

  Founded as a news agency in London to transmit stock market quotations between London and Paris
• 1865

  Established the first transatlantic telegraph cable connection
• 1923

  Introduced the use of radio to transmit news internationally
• 1941

  Developed the first automated system for transmitting financial data
• 1941

  Accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany during World War II
• 1964

  Launched the Stockmaster, an electronic quotation system for the American Stock Exchange
• 1973

  Became the first news organization to set up a real-time foreign exchange rate quotation service
• 1977

  Criticized for biased reporting during the Lebanese Civil War
• 1981

  Introduced Reuters Monitor Dealing Service, the first electronic foreign exchange trading system
• 1984

  Became a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
• 2000

  Faced allegations of manipulating foreign exchange rates
• 2003

  Criticized for inaccurate reporting on the Iraq War
• 2005

  Accused of publishing digitally altered photographs from the Lebanon-Israel conflict
• 2007

  Faced controversy over misreporting North Korean nuclear program details
• 2008

  Launched Reuters Insider, a financial video news service
• 2010

  Criticized for delayed reporting on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
• 2012

  Accused of publishing misleading photos during the Syrian Civil War
• 2015

  Faced criticism for biased coverage of the Greek debt crisis
• 2019

  Criticized for inadequate fact-checking in climate change reporting
• 2021

  Introduced an AI-powered tool called Lynx Insight to assist journalists in identifying newsworthy data patterns

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