Reuters is making its news content available on AI app
Reuters said Wednesday it is making its news content dating back to 1987 available on the Snowflake Marketplace artificial intelligence application. Business and consumers using Snowflake can access and integrate Reuters journalism across five languages directly within their AI workflows. This enables customers to build AI applications that can track evolving events, analyze companies and […]
Reuters journalists protest intimidation
Unionized journalists at Reuters emptied newsrooms across the country for an hour on Monday to protest company executives’ attempts to chill their participation in federally-protected collective action. Management held “investigatory meetings” with journalists who leafleted in New York about Reuters President Paul Basacobert receiving $10 million in salary over three years while refusing to agree […]
Reuters parent reports higher earnings
Thomson Reuters, the parent of the Reuters news service, reported a 9% rise in second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, boosted by its three biggest business segments — legal, corporates and tax and accounting, reports Kenneth Li of Reuters. Li reports, “Thomson Reuters said its second-quarter revenue rose to $1.95 billion, edging past estimates of about $1.9 billion. It […]
How Reuters is using artificial intelligence
Erik Bucy and Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi write for Nieman Lab about how Reuters is using artificial intelligence to speed up its finance news. Bucy and Ebrahimi write, “Its coverage of financial markets and other fast-moving sectors, such as foreign exchange trading and corporate earnings, means that even a 30-second delay in reporting a central bank decision or a market-moving […]
Reuters hires Wilkinson as editor in Europe
Reuters has hired Peter Wilkinson as Europe breaking and daily news editor. He has worked at CNN for more than a quarter of a century, most recently as senior editor for global breaking news and also as a weekend editor in London. Wilkinson previously worked for Reuters in 1999 and 2000 and was also a journalist at […]
How Reuters is using AI to help its reporting
Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni delivered the Andrew Olle Media Lecture in Sydney, hosted by the Australian Broadcasting Corp., and spoke about the values and importance of journalism, and how the news service is using artificial intelligence. Here is an excerpt: AI can be a powerful tool — a force multiplier — in this crucial endeavour. […]
Union files another complaint against Reuters
Top-level editors at Reuters – including editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni – have repeatedly big-footed unionized journalists by cherry-picking stories, taking bylines and doing reporting and writing instead of managing their staff, all in violation of labor law, the NewsGuild of New York said on Tuesday. The union took legal action on Monday, filing an Unfair Labor […]
Reuters names Shanghai bureau chief, China chief tech correspondent
Kevin Krolicki and Kenneth Li of Reuters sent out the following on Tuesday: Dear colleagues, We’re pleased to announce two important leadership appointments within our China team. Casey Hall has been promoted to Bureau Chief and Senior Companies Correspondent in Shanghai, and Eduardo Baptista has taken on a new role as Greater China Chief Technology Correspondent. Casey, who eased into her new role back in […]
Thomson Reuters is cutting some jobs
Thomson Reuters on Monday said it is cutting “a small number of roles” in engineering, as the Canadian content and technology company aggressively deploys artificial intelligence across its businesses, a Reuters story reports. Reuters reports, “The layoffs affect the global staff and were announced during a technology staff meeting earlier in the day, an employee […]
Reuters seeks a pharma and health care reporter
U.S. Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Reporter (Level 1 Journalist) (Washington, DC) Provide breaking news coverage by monitoring agency announcements, tracking regulatory decisions, and filing fast, accurate reports on healthcare policy and industry shifts. About The Role In this opportunity as a U.S. Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Reporter (Level 1 Journalist), you will: Write and publish reports using […]
