Centre
estimate · not a score
Reuters
🇺🇸US ·
wire · independent
· reuters.com
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| Founded | October 1851 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us |
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom (editorial headquarters at Canary Wharf); Reuters News has no single corporate headquarters — its President is based in New York no source on file |
| Funding | Reuters News is a business division of the publicly traded Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE/TSX: TRI), commercially funded via media subscriptions and the corporation's consolidated revenue; no state ownership or state subsidy was identified. |
| In its own words | Describes itself as: "Operates under the 'Trust Principles', which the parent company states commit that 'Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group, or faction' and that 'the integrity, independence and freedom from bias of Thomson Reuters shall at all times be fully preserved.'." |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Actor named
The attacker is the subject of an active verb for both the deaths and the damage — in 1 article
Actor named
No actor named for who cancelled the flights — in 1 article
Agreement stated flat, source in a tail
attribution moved after the dash — in 1 article
Announcement written as settled
A social-media post becomes a future indicative: the conversion will happen — in 1 article
From 13380 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
1 false8 misleading10 disputed69 unverified44 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomson Reuters Corporation | company | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company Limited | company | not disclosed | yes | voting trust | — | link |
| Thomson Investments Limited and affiliated Thomson-family entities (joint filers with Woodbridge) | company | 70.56% | yes | equity | — | link |
| The Woodbridge Company Limited | company | 67.91% | yes | equity | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
Appointed Reuters Editor-in-Chief in 2021, the first woman to hold the role in the organization's history; previously a Reuters and Wall Street Journal correspondent.
President, Reuters
Named President of Reuters effective September 2022, overseeing news and media business operations, with the Editor-in-Chief reporting to him; previously CEO of Gannett Co.
Journalists
Reporter/Editor, Enterprise Journalism Team, Reuters · data journalism · investigations
Reuters enterprise/investigative reporter and former head of the Reuters data-journalism team and Reuters polling; part of the team awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Chief Politics & General News Correspondent, China, Reuters · China politics
Reuters China correspondent based in Beijing since 2023; previously Reuters Myanmar bureau chief, where his team won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Correspondent, Reuters (based in Mexico) · Latin America · immigration
Reuters correspondent covering Mexico and Latin America; part of the Reuters team awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the 'Fentanyl Express' series.
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Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Vance refuses the word "war". Seven of our nine reports use it anyway
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Fox says Bartiromo is out. Her lawyer says she is still employed
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Big Bend: both reports carry the pause, neither reports the other's measure of it
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Four outlets, one injunction, two names for the order it blocked
— we have never been able to read this outlet
One diesel record, three framings: the Iran war, Trump's holdings, and a price only one outlet prints
— we have never been able to read this outlet
The Hill says Canada taxed $27.6 billion of US goods; the Washington Post says $20 billion
— read, nothing on this event
Fox News says 15 shot, Breitbart says 38 — one counted a park, the other a city
— read, nothing on this event
NPR says the UK accused settlers of 'ethnic cleansing'; the Times says only that Israel 'turned a blind eye'
— read, nothing on this event
The Washington Post says "disputed account", Newsom says "lying", New York Magazine says "weird lie"
— read, nothing on this event