About Reuters Deutschland

Reuters Deutschland

Reuters Deutschland is the German service of Reuters, the international news agency headquartered in London. Operating from its Berlin bureau and correspondents across Germany, it provides German-language world news and financial journalism to the German-speaking media. Reuters was founded by Paul Julius Reuter — born in Kassel in 1816 — who established his pigeon post in Aachen in 1850 before moving to London in October 1851. Since 2008, Reuters has been part of Thomson Reuters, the Canadian-American information group. The agency's global journalism is presented at reuters.com.

Overview

Reuters Deutschland brings the resources of one of the world's great news agencies to the German-speaking media: a global network of journalists, the speed and reliability of wire journalism, and particular strength in financial and business news — Reuters' historic speciality. The Berlin bureau covers German politics, economics and finance for the agency's worldwide output, while the German service delivers international news in German to newsrooms across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The agency's German roots run deep: its founder Paul Julius Reuter was born Israel Beer Josaphat in Kassel in 1816, and his 1850 Aachen pigeon service — carrying stock prices between Aachen and Brussels — was the seed from which the global agency grew. The German service thus represents a homecoming of sorts: the world agency returning to the language and the country of its founder's birthplace.

History

Paul Julius Reuter — born Israel Beer Josaphat in Kassel in 1816 — founded his news service with a flock of carrier pigeons. In 1850, his Aachen pigeon post carried stock market prices between Aachen and Brussels faster than the telegraph, giving subscribers a decisive speed advantage. The pigeons bridged the gap in the telegraph network between the two cities, and Reuter's customers — banks and brokers hungry for the latest prices — paid for the speed. In October 1851, Reuter moved to London and established the agency that would bear his name, supplying the City's banks and brokers with financial news. The move to London placed the agency at the heart of the world's financial capital, where the demand for fast, reliable business news was greatest.

Through the later nineteenth century, Reuters grew into a global newsgathering organisation, joining the famous cartel with Havas and Wolff (1870–1934) that divided the world's news coverage. The cartel agreement — Havas taking France, the French-speaking world and southern Europe; Reuters the British Empire, the Far East and much of the world; Wolff Germany, Austria-Hungary and northern Europe — shaped the geography of international newsgathering for more than six decades, until the arrangement collapsed in 1934 under the pressures of the interwar period. The agency's reputation for speed, accuracy and impartiality — the "Reuters principles" — made it the trusted source for financial markets and general news alike.

The twentieth century brought expansion, war reporting, and the development of the agency's financial information services — the terminals and data feeds that made Reuters indispensable to the world's banks and trading floors. The agency's correspondents covered the century's great events, from the world wars to the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, while its financial services grew into the infrastructure of global markets. In 2008, Reuters was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, forming Thomson Reuters — a combination of newsgathering and professional information services that united the news agency with one of the world's great information companies.

The Berlin bureau has covered Germany through the Federal Republic's history: the Cold War division, reunification, the Berlin Republic and the country's role as Europe's economic engine. Reuters' German financial journalism — from the Bundesbank to the DAX, from Frankfurt's banks to Berlin's economic policy — is the reference for international markets watching Germany. The bureau's correspondents across the country ensure that the agency's global customers receive comprehensive coverage of Europe's largest economy.

Content and Programming

Reuters Deutschland's output spans the agency's global strengths. Its financial journalism — markets, companies, economic policy, central banks — draws on Reuters' historic expertise in business news, serving the German financial media and the international investors who follow Germany. The Berlin bureau's coverage of German politics, the Bundesbank, the European Central Bank and the German economy feeds the agency's worldwide wire.

General news from Germany — politics, society, culture — is reported for the global audience, while the German service delivers international news in German to domestic newsrooms. The agency's picture and video services supply visual journalism from the world's news events, and its investigative reporting — including Pulitzer-winning work — sets the standard for agency journalism.

The agency's speed is legendary: in financial markets, where milliseconds matter, Reuters' wire remains the benchmark. Its German service brings this speed to German-speaking newsrooms, delivering world news, market data and financial journalism at the pace the markets demand.

Coverage and Audience

Reuters Deutschland serves media throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland — financial newspapers, business media, general news outlets, broadcasters and online media. Its financial journalism reaches the banks, funds and trading floors of Frankfurt and beyond, while its general news serves the editors who need reliable world coverage. In Frankfurt — continental Europe's financial capital — Reuters' market journalists work alongside the bankers, traders and central bankers whose decisions move the world's markets.

Through its media customers and its financial information services, Reuters' journalism reaches millions: the traders who watch its market screens, the editors who draw on its wire, and the readers of the world's media that publish its reporting. In Germany, Europe's largest economy, Reuters' presence — the Berlin bureau and correspondents across the country — ensures comprehensive coverage of the continent's economic engine.

Ownership

Reuters is part of Thomson Reuters, the Canadian-American information group formed in 2008 by the Thomson Corporation's acquisition of Reuters. Thomson Reuters combines newsgathering with professional information services in legal, tax, accounting and financial markets — a combination that gives the news agency the resources of a global information company. The Reuters news operation maintains its editorial independence under the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles — the historic guarantees of impartiality, integrity and freedom from bias that have governed the agency since the Second World War.

The Berlin bureau operates within this global structure, serving both the agency's worldwide newsgathering and the German-speaking media's need for German-language journalism.

Digital Presence

Reuters' global digital presence is anchored at reuters.com, one of the world's most-visited news websites, presenting the agency's journalism to a global audience in English, with German-language content serving the German-speaking market. The site's financial coverage — markets data, company news, economic analysis — draws on the agency's historic strengths.

Reuters is present on social media globally, sharing breaking news and visual journalism with international audiences. The agency's digital wire delivery powers newsrooms, trading floors and online media in real time. As the German service of an agency founded by a Kassel-born pigeon-post pioneer in 1850, Reuters Deutschland combines more than 170 years of journalistic heritage with the digital speed that modern markets and media demand.

The website field in this profile reflects the parent agency's official online home. As the German service of an agency founded by a Kassel-born pigeon-post pioneer in 1850 — grown from the Aachen-Brussels pigeon route to a global newsgathering network, from the Havas-Reuter-Wolff cartel to Thomson Reuters — Reuters Deutschland combines more than 170 years of journalistic heritage with the digital speed that modern markets and media demand, carrying the founder's legacy forward.