# Reuters

> Reuters is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in United Kingdom. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** reuters.com
- **Website:** https://www.reuters.com
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Region:** Europe
- **Language:** English (with multilingual wire services)
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 1851

## About

The paradox of Reuters is that the world's most-quoted news agency is also the one most readers cannot name, because its style is engineered to disappear into other newspapers' pages. Founded in 1851 and now run as the news arm of Thomson Reuters, the agency publishes more text per day than any general-interest newspaper. The discipline is codified: the Reuters Trust Principles, first set out in 1941, still set the operating frame.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** News arm of Thomson Reuters Corporation; Thomson Reuters' largest shareholder is The Woodbridge Company (Thomson family)
- **Funding:** Wire-service subscriptions to media, financial, and corporate clients; advertising and direct subscriptions on Reuters.com
- **Focus areas:** Breaking news, markets and finance, world politics and conflict, economic and corporate reporting, video and photography wire


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-05-10. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 9 (4 themes).

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