Thomson Reuters U.S. LLC history

Of Jewish parentage, he became a Christian in 1844 and adopted the name of Reuter.

The agency was established by Paul Julius Reuter, a former bank clerk who in 1847 became a partner in Reuter and Stargardt, a Berlin book-publishing firm.

The firm distributed radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848, which may have brought official scrutiny on Reuter.

In 1851 Reuter opened an office with the help of an 11 year-old office boy at 1 Royal Exchange Building in London's financial centre, located close to the main telegraph offices.

The agency expanded steadily, and in 1858 its first newspaper client, the London Morning Advertiser, subscribed.

The value of Reuters to newspapers lay not only in the financial news it provided but in its ability to be the first to report on stories of international importance, as in 1865 when the service broke the news of the assassination of United States Pres.

Reuter was created a baron by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1871 and later was given the privileges of this rank in England.

West Publishing is founded The company is founded by John B. West and his brother Horatio in 1872 in St Paul, Minnesota.

He retired as managing director of Reuters in 1878.

25, 1899, Nice, France), German-born founder of one of the first news agencies, which still bears his name.

The Press Association (PA), an organization representing the provincial press of Great Britain, acquired a majority interest in Reuters in 1925 and full ownership some years later.

The Reuters Trust Principles are born Reuters restructures itself so that it is owned by the British National and Provincial Press, together with (in 1947) the Press Associations of Australia and New Zealand.

Reuters had also been first with the news of it being built in 1961.

The agency subsequently afforded the capacity to make electronic transactions over its network (1981) and went on to develop a wide array of electronic trading and brokerage services.

FindLaw began in Silicon Valley in 1995, when our founders compiled a list of attorney resources for a group of law librarians in Northern California.

The sale of Bell Globemedia, including the Corporation’s interest in The Globe and Mail, is the culmination of the Thomson strategy to exit the newspaper business undertaken in February 2000.

Thomson sells DBM (Drake Beam Morin), which was acquired along with other Harcourt assets in 2001, to Compass Partners International Limited.

The unified company withdrew from both the LSE and the NASDAQ in 2009 and became listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

Thomson Reuters is named to Ethisphere’s 2012 “World’s Most Ethical Companies List” and as one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies, both for the fourth consecutive years.