On Thursday photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen 22 and driver Saeed Chmagh 40 of the Reuters Baghdad bureau were killed in the eastern part of the city. This brings to six the number of Reuters journalists and staffers that have been killed since the beginning of the war in Iraq – all too often as a result Read More

The ground rule for all sessions at the Allen Conference in Sun Valley is that all discussions are off the record. Reuters has always honored our sources so I will not repeat what Mayor Bloomberg and former Prime Minister Blair discussed. However I can hazard the guess that if the 250 or so attendees could Read More

It is time once again for the annual (25th Annual) Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference. Many of the sessions seem like sequels to prior year blockbusters: Meg Whitman of eBay interviews Warren Buffet Barry Diller (IAC) and Howard Stringer (Sony) interview each other and Bill Gates tells us about the Digital Revolution. What is Read More

I am just back from a week in China (Beijing Shanghai and Hong Kong). I have grown accustomed over the years to see the incredible pace of construction and westernization taking place in Shanghai. Hong Kong is of course a familiar and well established First World city. However what really impressed me this trip is Read More

As part of a long-standing series of lectures by statesmen and other prominent speakers called Reuters Newsmakers Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke at Reuters this past week on “Leadership in the Media Age.” See Photo in Gallery. The Prime Minister said little of controversy other than politely pointing out that it had become very difficult Read More

I was watching TV this evening when an ad for Nationwide a loan society in the UK caught my eye. In the ad which highlights the fees other banks charge their customers for using their credit cards abroad Nationwide proclaims the great benefit of having "No Shareholders". They are apparently so proud of this that Read More

A lot has been written lately in the wake of the Thomson-Reuters deal and Rupert Murdoch’s proposal to acquire Dow Jones about the value of financial news. It is said this is the only category of news that people are prepared to pay for and that therefore these companies merit a premium. Well far be Read More

I hope you will all excuse my silence over the past few weeks as I was busy reaching our historic agreement with Thomson Corp. and at least in my little world nothing else seemed as important to comment upon. Now that the basic information is out I just want to say how excited I am Read More

For generations Brazil has been known as the "country of the future" quickly followed by the less complimentary view that "it would always be the country of the future." More recently Brazil has been included in the high potential "BRIC" group of emerging markets. My trip last week to Brazil suggest that the long wait Read More

We are doing a lot of work at Reuters these days to understand and then adapt our services to the increasingly different requirements of human and machine users. Reuters has a 155-year history of serving the information needs of human beings around the world but Reuters was also early to recognize that in the financial Read More

This questioned was raised recently by a group who blog at http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/thenewmarketing/archive/2007/03/01/813.aspx You can find my answer posted there as well. More recursive loops …

Here’s a speech I gave last week to the London Chamber of Commerce’s Anuual Trade Dinner. In it I address the links between free trade social welfare and protecting the environment. My basic point is that we need free trade to make the pie bigger for everyone and we need social policies that protect those Read More

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In the 1980s in my C++ computer class at University I learned a powerful coding technique called recursive algorithms. The concept was simple: a given function keeps calling itself and repeating the same instructions until the result is produced. The technique finally seems to have caught on in Davos. Everyone is blogging about what is Read More

I had the pleasure of reviewing the operations of Reuters in South Africa this week and beyond the satisfaction of seeing a strongly growing unit I was proud to witness the commitment of the management to achieve full compliance with the Black Economic Empowerment initiative. One can argue about the pros and cons of affirmative Read More

Here is a speech I made at the Globes Media Conference in Tel Aviv on Monday 11 December 2006. It’s about trust in media today taking into account the growing popularity of blogging and all other types of citizen journalism. Ladies and Gentlemen good afternoon. I would like to thank Globes for inviting me to Read More

For the past week Reuters employees around the world have been holding events to raise awareness on what we can do to save Earth’s environment. Like many dutiful employees I wore a green article of clothing to work today in Bangalore but I cannot say that my green tie raised my or any of my Read More

After a short stay in Delhi I spent the last two days in Bangalore India – home to over 1600 Reuters employees. This is always an exhilarating visit for me because of the talent and enthusiasm of our staff. This trip was especially memorable for them and me as we were joined for a "town Read More

I was asked to speak to a lunch gathering of the AEBA on the topic of globalization – something we at Reuters know a lot about. After a review of Reuters credentials on this topic (operations in almost 200 cities across 130 countries and publication in 19 languages etc.) I tackled the more sensitive issue Read More

I am very happy about yesterday’s announcement that Susan Taylor-Martin will head Reuters UKI front-line unit. Susan has worked with me directly as Global Head of Strategy since the retirement of her predecessor David Ure in 2004. During this time Susan has show herself to be super bright hard working customer focused and possessing a Read More

Here is the Reuters TV Commercial / Before it’s news it’s Reuters: The larger version of this video can be downloaded here:Reuters TV Commercial / Before it’ news it’s Reuters (AVI 00:40) and the full Brand Video / The Time of our Lives can be downloaded here:Reuters Brand Video / The Time of our Lives Read More

Here’s an appearance I put in on the Charlie Rose Show in which I talk a lot about Reuters and cover issues such as the alteration of photos and the future of media. You can see the video on google in low resolution at the Google URL below. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1780754924182174542&q=tvshow%3ACharlie_Rose&pr=goog-sl There is also a high resolution Read More

I’ve just got back from an invigorating two days at the University of Michigan home to the Reuters Leading Edge management development program. These days we hold two sessions per year and no matter where I am in the Reuters world I always make sure I get to Ann Arbor for at least a day. Read More

A few weeks ago we launched a virtual bureau in Second Life adding a whole new dimension to Reuters reporting. Over the course of a few weeks Adam ‘Reuters’ Pasick developed the idea of the virtual bureau sharing our enthusiasm for technology and the Internet. Here is what Reuters reporters had to say about the Read More

This post is taken from an email I sent to a Reuters employee who mentioned that folks were concerned that we sold Instinet too cheaply (because it has been re-sold 18 months after our agreement at a high price) and that we bailed pit of Factiva too early. Here’s my response… Thanks for your note. Read More