Reuters

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:23pm on Friday, July 10th, 2009

The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is now online and freely available to the public, Dean Wright of Reuters announced on July 9, 2009:

"In between are 2,211 additional entries in the A-to-Z general style guide, part of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, which we are now making available online. Also included in the handbook are sections on standards and values; a guide to operations; a sports style guide and a section of specialized guidance on such issues as personal investments by journalists, dealing with threats and complaints and reporting information found on the internet.

The handbook is the guidance Reuters journalists live by — and we're proud of it. Until now, it hasn’t been freely available to the public. In the early 1990s, a printed handbook was published and in 2006 the Reuters Foundation published a relatively short PDF online that gave some basic guidance to reporters. But it's only now that we're putting the full handbook online."

The full story:
http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2009/07/09/a-is-for-abattoir-z-is-for-zulu-all-in-the-handbook-of-journalism/

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:12pm on Monday, January 26th, 2009

On January 25, 2009, Reuters reported that Baroness Reuter, the last link to the Reuters news dynasty, has died:

"LONDON (Reuters) - Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, a European aristocrat from a bygone age and last survivor of the family that founded the international news agency, died on Sunday aged 96, friends said.

A patron of the arts, she was the widow of Oliver, 4th Baron de Reuter, whose grandfather Paul Julius Reuter established his news service in London in 1851 after starting out in Aachen, Germany, using telegraph cables and carrier pigeons.

The barony -- a German title granted to Paul Julius in 1871 but later confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England -- becomes extinct on her death, as she and her husband had no children.

"The name dies with her," said her friend Michael Nelson, a former general manager of Reuters.

Another close friend, John Fox, said the baroness had suffered successive strokes late last year. She died early on Sunday in a French old people's home on the border with Monaco."