Reuters Editors
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Day One of the new Reuters News
This is Day One of the new Reuters News, a news organization that is part of Thomson Reuters, the company formed when two great leaders of news and information came together.
As Editor-in-Chief, I want to assure you that the Reuters News you will see will maintain its commitment to independent, trustworthy, useful news; news that is free from bias and filled with the insight you need.
That’s the excellence that saw us recently win, among other awards, a Pulitzer Prize for spot photography and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for commentary.
Over the next weeks and months, we will combine the best from the old Reuters news and from Thomson Financial news; we’ll be bringing together people and services. Most of the difference will be seen immediately on our desktop products for financial professionals, but over time I’m sure you’ll see new bylines and data on our Reuters Media consumer-facing sites as well.
My commitment is for Reuters News to be the global, insightful and innovative powerhouse you want to serve your news needs in words, pictures and video. There are more than two and a half thousand professional journalists around the world backing up my words with their actions every minute of every day of the year. David Schlesinger is Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News, Thomson Reuters
Count me among the skeptics as well. Reuters seems to have relaxed its editorial quality standards over the years in the name of “innovation” that mainly consists of recycling news from “content partners” that has not been independently checked. This is particularly true of international coverage from stringers that seem to operate without any adult supervision. Its coverage of the Kenyan elections was particularly shameful and inept. The company’s record on labor relations and safety is disturbing, as are the promiscuous relations between the company and the “philanthropreneurial” projects of the Reuters Foundation, which seems to be a perfect example of Naomi Klein’s apt thesis on “disaster capitalism.” I am not a fan, or a regular reader, obviously. Maintaining the old standards is not going to be sufficient to get me to start paying attention again.