Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer Is Out; COO James Smith Replaces Him
Tom Glocer is stepping down as the CEO of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), and is getting replaced by James C. Smith, the business media company…
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Tom Glocer is stepping down as the CEO of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), and is getting replaced by James C. Smith, the business media company…
Dan Colarusso, who has held top editorial posts at the NY Post, Condé Nast’s Portfolio and briefly at Business Insider, is leaving his post…
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Less than two years after Reuters.com got a major overhaul to make it more “consumer-facing”, the site is getting another revamp that reflec…
Although Thomson Reuters’ main business currently rests on subscriptions for its desktop financial data products, it will become more relian…
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Over the past few years, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has sought to balance its main financial news and data services business with a more consumer-f…
A little over a year after joining Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) as SVP and editorial director of the news service’s Professional division, ex…
Alisa Bowen, who has worked on overhauling Reuters’ consumer business, is heading to Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) to run the company’s digital busi…
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has acquired Highline Financial, a site that provides analytics about banking industry trends. The news service has made…
With the dust from the global financial meltdown two years settled, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) posted positive earnings and revenue gains,…
As part of its continuing efforts to build out its multimedia strategy, Reuters.com is developing a series of online video programming for i…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is doubling down in its patent fight against Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and is hitting Nokia a little closer to home by expanding…
Arguing that all the current desktop data and news offerings available to financial companies are inadequate, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is…
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping to step up its battle against Bloomberg by handing over responsibility for credit news reporting to it…
Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has promoted three media execs this week to reflect the constant changes and challenges for news organizations in the di…
So, CEOs will be wandering around, toting iPads with critical business info on, right? Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) think so…
I chatted wi…
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is shuffling two of it senior editors after moving one to focus on multimedia output alongside Chris Cramer.
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After spending much of the past year focusing its multimedia products at consumers, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will introduce an on-demand,…
Four months after redesigning its .com consumer website with a cleaner, more advertiser-friendly look, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will get around t…
The app announcements have been rolling out all morning in anticipation of tomorrow’s iPad release. Among the initial iPad apps now in Apple…
As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return and ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to s…
Reuters has issued new social-media policies, but the wire service has made the same mistakes other mainstream media have: assuming the worst, and trying to control something that can’t be controlled, instead of trusting their staff and focusing on the benefits of using social media.
The media segment in Thomson Reuters’ Q4 results can be seen as a microcosm of the segment’s performance for the overall year. Both full-yea…
While most media companies are exploring ways to build subscription revenues to replace ad dollars, Reuters is looking in the opposite direc…
At DLD earlier this week, Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), gave the rest of the world a peek into what we know he really is:…
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has acquired scientific analytics software provider Discovery Logic as the company looks to expand its content a…
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is laying off 240 staffers at its legal publishing division, Dow Jones reported. The company’s legal division in…
Stephen J. Adler, who resigned his post as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek shortly after the magazine’s sale to Bloomberg, is joining Thoms…
Updated: It’s hard not to see the symmetry: two deals announced within 24 hours of each other, closed on the same day. McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MH…
Sales in Thomson Reuters’ media operations were dented, as the group saw top-line operating profit tumble 32 percent to $378 million on four…
Updated: Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is buying business commentary service Breakingviews.com, as part of its expansion into financial comme…
After a few months of testing, Reuters is pulling the plug on the Americas Dealzone chatroom on Reuters Messaging, the company confirmed. In…
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) has bought London-based tax software provider Abacus Enterprise (via FT.com) in a sign the company still highly…
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is finally reaping some big benefits from its long-running merger: the news and professional information publis…
Another acquisition by Thomson Reuters: it has acquired private equity backed Indlaw Communications, a Delhi-based legal information company…
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) has acquired the Toronto-based webcasting software firm Streamlogics, for an undisclosed sum. Streamlogics, fou…
His own newswire service has filed nearly 160 stories on the topic in the last week, but Reuters Media president Chris Ahearn made his own v…
Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger has warned the International Olympics Committee Press Commission its media accreditation rules are…
A year after the Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) merger, the data and news company has realized its dual-listing structure is way too complicat…
Reuters lags news-service rivals AP and Bloomberg in releasing mobile apps, but the company plans to spend heavily to make up for any lost t…
Last year’s merger helped propel Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) to a strong Q1, despite the economy’s pressure on the media business and on it…
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) CEO Tom Glocer ventured over to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood last night and wondered if the NYT could do bette…
About a month after consolidating its global multimedia groups, Reuters has created the new post of global editor for online and has tapped…
As competitors like Bloomberg and Associated Press have become more aggressive on the digital and video front, Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN)…
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China has settled a dispute that will allow media companies like Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN), Bloomberg and *Dow Jones* to provide financ…
The nation is currently abuzz with rumors about what kind of dog the Obama family will be getting upon their arrival at…
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is expanding its mobile news service for farmers in to another part of India. Reuters Market Light offers dat…
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons: Reuters has become the first news organisation to build a presence on news prediction web startup Hubdub. Hubdub, wh…
Reuters’ mobile journalism project, which is no longer using the catchy “MoJo” moniker, is reprising its Davos roving-reporter experiment at…
This has been brought up many times before, and Reuters has even said it that it wants to expand its TV/video activities, though it has deni…
— Dow Jones: Former Incisive Media MD Tony Gibson is joining DJ as its European consumer media deputy MD, MediaWeek says. He’ll be charged…
Dialog, one of the oldest electronic/online informations businesses, is being disposed of by the newly merged Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN)…
The past year has see Reuters launch an India specific website, a service targeting farmers called Reuters Market Light in Maharashtra, and…
A clearer picture has emerged of senior-level changes in Reuters’ Media division, as the unit retains its name but undergoes some shake-ups…
Staff of the new Thomson-Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) are forbidden from using blogs for internal communications and for liaising with co-workers.…
Thomson (NYSE: TOC) will change its name and ticker symbols once its $16.2 billion acquisition of Reuters Group (NSDQ: RTRSY) closes on Apri…
Stephen Smyth, the GM and SVP of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Media in U.S., is leaving the company this summer, we have learned, and confirmed fro…
A fortnight ahead of the April 17 Thomson-Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) merger becoming official, Reuters chairman Niall Fitzgerald yesterday sold h…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has acquired a minority stake in ChinaWeb, the parent company of Chinese financial information portal Hexun. Founded i…
Reuters’ (NSDQ: RTRSY) 2007 full-year pre-tax profit fell 13 percent to £273 million – attributed to less income from disposals than last y…
An era will come to an end on April 17th, when Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) takeover of Reuters Group (NSDQ: RTRSY) is expected to close. The two c…
On schedule, the European Commission has approved the merger of Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) (technically the former is buy…
Guardian, which has a big chunk of its website traffic coming from U.S. but has always had a hard time building out a sales infrastructure h…
Thomson (NYSE: TOC), which is in the process of buying info giant Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY), has done a rethink on using the Reuters branding fo…
In his keynote to the SIIA conference, Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) CEO Tom Glocer promised he wasn’t just there to deliver a commercial for the pl…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) speaks to Reuters CEO on the looming recession, and its effect on Reuters, and the merger with Thomson (NYSE: TOC) (vi…
Well, the rumor has been around for a while now – I first heard about it in December, but was unable to confirm it; “Why break off a success…
Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Thomson issued a joint statement today saying the $17 billion merger deal should receive regulatory clearance early…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) and Thomson (NYSE: TOC) seem confident they have been given the go-ahead to merge in the next couple of months on both…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will next year roll out more branded news partnerships like that it recently hit upon with the International Herald Tr…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has relaunched its mobile web site and given Nokia
The merger of Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) is on track, but for now, Thomson is a standalone entity, so the Thomson busines…
The merger of Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) is on track, but for now, Thomson is a standalone entity, so the Thomson busines…
The murmurs started late summer: if Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) is affected by credit crisis in Europe and the U.S., then Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) al…
A Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) reporter will this week embark on an experiment to report the arrival of Tesco in the US with little more than a Nok…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) COO Devin Wenig, the proposed CEO of the Reuters media businesses following the pending Thomson-Reuters merger, shared…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) COO Devin Wenig, the proposed CEO of the Reuters media businesses following the pending Thomson-Reuters merger, shared…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) COO Devin Wenig, the proposed CEO of the Reuters businesses following the pending Thomson-Reuters merger, shared some…
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) saw underlying growth rise 7.6 percent to £646 million in the three months to September 30 and now expects EU and US…
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— Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) deal: Nokia’…
Wedding and lifestyle site and company The Knot has named Janet Scardino as president and CMO…Scardino was previously the EVP and MD of Re…
Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) takeover of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will no be undergoing a deeper regulatory look by the European Commission, the compa…
Thomson (NYSE: TOC), which is in the process of buying Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY), had its investor day today, and it filed the presentation deck…
A new report from media investment bank Jordan, Edmiston Group pegs the total value of media M&A during the third quarter at $95 billion, up…
We’ve written about the Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Market Light (RML) before. Now, as per a release, Reuter’s is pleased with it’s pilot test in…
— Google Brings AdSense To Cell Phones: Over the past year, marketers have been hoping that cell phone users will be more willing to put up…
Reuters (LON:RTR) is to begin monitoring the web for unauthorised reproductions of its digital content. The information giant will use web s…
Azhar Rafee, Reuters Asia
Update 2: The Guardian, The Times, The Sun and France’s sport paper L’Equipe have joined the boycott. Guardian reports: “Last night the Guar…
The looming combination of Thomson (TSE:TOC) and Reuters (LON:RTR) has put its proposed merger to European regulators. Reuters filed paperwo…
Yesterday we reported extensively on CNN (NYSE: TWX) and Reuters relationship breakdown, and noted on the variance in figures in two media r…
Reuters (Nasdaq:RTRSY), in the process of merging with Thomson, has bought an investment research firm StarMine, for an undisclosed sum. San…
The Economic Times reports that Reuters launched Reuters Market Light, a service that provides information on crop prices, weather updates a…
Reuters’ (LSE:RTR.L) half-year trading profit lift 36 percent underlying to £175 million ($358 million), on 6.4 percent better revenues of…
Unless I am mistaken, Tom Glocer is the only one blogging (well, at least one post) Allen & Co’s confab from inside, while his journalists s…
Outgoing UK prime minister Tony Blair suggests online media convergence should lead to controversial regulatory reform. From his speech at R…
The sale of Reuters to Thomson may just moved a step closer after the Canadian business information publisher sold its education division fo…
Shares in both companies slid a little today after Friday’s surprise of Thomson’s now-confirmed $17.6 billion takeover interest in Reuters g…
Not sure why Reuters feels compelled to keep the name of its bidder quiet but that leaves us in the situation of writing that the UK media c…
Reuters’ announcement this morning it has fielded preliminary takeover talks has got tongues wagging. A speculated £6-a-share offer would v…
Reuters confirmed it has received a preliminary takeover approach from an unnamed suitor after shares jumped as much as 30 percent on the Lo…
Reuters is acquiring text-analytics software maker Clearforest, which has been working with the news service to boost search rankings for it…
Reuters CEO Tom Glocer “couldn’t be here today” but, as though accepting an Oscar, he did send a video message re-capping the news-and-infor…
Reuters plans to start its own social network this year
It is the day of hiring consultants, in more ways than one: First Discovery did a reorg and hired two high-profile consultants. Now comes th…
Reuters joined CNET in opening a Second Life newsroom this week. Technology correspondent Adam Pasick and his terrifying avatar are now patr…
Reuters Group today posted a 3 percent rise in third quarter revenue, fueled by growth in online advertising revenue, growth in electronic t…
Dow Jones is acquiring the 50 percent of
Quite a week for AllofMP3.com. The Russian music site has been singled out by the US trade representative Susan Schwab as a major obstacle t…
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has raised $100,000 from Reuters for his experimental citizen j site NewAssignment.net, scheduled for lau…
This was the “grubby”, hands-on session after all that aspirational, world-changing stuff. It’s is a big panel (maybe too big – six people?!…
Conferences without tables. Pah.
Reuters CEO Tom Glocer opened the second day of WeMedia explaining why Reuters is “constitutionally made up…
(reg. req.) Reuters’ rationale for working with Google is simple: traffic. The media company provides some of its content on the theory that…
Reuters Media, up 13 percent year over year to £39 million, contributed 6 percent of Reuters Group PLC total revenue for Q305. The bulk of…
Reuters, which has been pushing its websites as a news destination in an effort to expand into the consumer market, has announced appointmen…