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  • 2022-03-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Reuters Russian-Owned? (en)
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  • As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, news agencies like Reuters have been at the forefront of coverage of the conflict. We received queries from our readers asking if Reuters is a Russian-owned news organization. This is false, as we will demonstrate below. Reuters is part of the Canadian multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters. It was founded in 1851 in Great Britain, according to Britannica: Thomson Reuters describes Paul Julius Reuter's beginnings as the following: In 2008, Reuters merged with Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corporation to become Thomson Reuters. The company’s shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Russia does not own Thomson Reuters. However, a Russian-owned media outlet did join Reuters Connect, a service described by Reuters as a content marketplace featuring all of Reuters multimedia content, as well as a diverse array of content from other leading media organizations around the world. In 2020, TASS, a Russian news agency, joined around 17 other news agencies from around the world to share content on Reuters. According to a news release from Reuters, the partnership with TASS brings media customers access to breaking news and exclusive video; videos on the Kremlin and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as well as feature videos and general news. This, however, does not mean that Russia owns Reuters. We thus rate this claim as False. (en)
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