ReutersFounded by the german paul julius reuter in 1850 in achen, germany, and moved to london in 1851. Reuters was reorganized into a limited company in 1919, away from a purely family business model. The founder, reuter, was taken over by his son, herbert reuter, who committed suicide in 1915. His successor, roderick jones, promoted institutional reform by introducing shareholders such as australia and the new zealand press association. During his tenure, jones made major institutional changes, selling shares to local newspapers, forming the union of british press and newspaper owners and including australian new zealand associated press as shareholders, making reuters a corporate enterprise。
Reuters's logo has undergone several changes. The original logo was painted by a medieval knight wearing armor and tsarx, symbolizing speed and message. In the 1960s, the introduction of black dot-letters inspired by the tele-information piercing system was introduced. In 2024, reuters launched the same orange dot as the parent company townsend。
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Reuters has 197 branches in 91 countries worldwide, with over 14,000 employees (including 2,500 news practitioners). Reuters application since 2016Artificial intelligenceTechnology, using natural language processing and machine learning to generate first drafts of financial, sports-type news, and the development of data visualization tools and virtual facilitators in collaboration with companies such as grampiq and syndhesia。
In 2024, reuters launched the new logo, which is synchronized with the parent company townsend, and is designed with an orange dot. This continues the brand tradition of using dots as a core element of identification since the 1960s. Reuters's original logo was a medieval knight with a choreography, reflecting its name and its quest for rapid and accurate news dissemination. In the 1960s, reuters began to use black dot-letters inspired by the tele-information poking system。
On 4 june 2026, a senior director of the ningde era indicated to reuters that the company expected that by 2030, storage operations would account for half of its global sales. Reuters reported in june 2026 that chinese photovoltaic companies such as crystal energy, crystal austrotech, lungi green, trina and others were also accelerating access to storage energy。
In the same month, reuters reported on the first mutual attack between iran and israel since 8 april, when the united states and israel agreed to a ceasefire, and stated that trump had been pressuring israel to cease its military operations in lebanon in order to create space for an agreement to end the conflict with iran。
In addition, reuters reported in june 2026 on the abduction of 39 civilians by armed groups in zamfara state, nigeria, and noted that these armed elements posed a major security threat to northern nigeria, and that zamfara state was a heavily affected security area。
In the same month, reuters followed china's export data in may, arguing that the global artificial intelligence (ai) boom had driven china's export growth over expectations。
In june 2026, reuters also reported on a poll conducted in collaboration with impso, which showed that half of americans were concerned that ai might cause them or their families to lose their jobs。
In the same month, reuters also reported a prognosis by the united states advertising impact corporation, which indicated that the projected expenditure for mid-term election advertising in the united states in 2026, amounting to $11. 6 billion, would update the record of federal election cycle advertising expenditures; the report states that the surge in spending was partly attributable to the selection of key states, such as ohio and alaska, and that it was expected that august to november would be the month of highest advertising spending。
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Reuters's original logo had the image of the knight of the horse, which reflected the meaning of “persons on horseback” and symbolized speed, strength and ability to deliver information. In the 1960s, reuters began to use black dot-letters inspired by the tele-information poking system. In the subsequent logo update, the dot becomes its core identifier. Reuters launched a new logo in may 2024 using the same orange dot design as the parent company townsend。
