Thomson Reuters could handle Matthew Keys being indicted on federal hacking charges. But after a week in which he was harshly criticized for inaccurate tweets to his 35,000-plus followers about the Boston attacks — and in which he had a public spat with his boss — Keys finds himself out of a job.
At 5:41 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published a prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and time of his future death. And it was pretty harsh!
The Pentagon is trying to be tactful about how it presents the threat of North Korea firing a nuclear missile capable of reaching the United States. But the brass is starting to seem cagey.
It's fairly safe to say that Matthew Keys won some sympathy in the days after his indictment for hacking charges. But after staying relatively silent, the Reuters social media editor is starting to talk publicly about this case. This feels like a bad idea.
The head of Reuters' Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi could be looking at jail time after a special media court found her guilty of "spreading lies" with a February video about Iranian women in martial arts training.
Once again, somebody hacked into Reuters blogs and posted an inflammatory, and false, story from the Middle East, this time reporting that Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal (pictured), had died. He has not.
Reuters became involved in the Syrian conflict in a way it didn't intend to on Friday, when someone hacked into its blogging site and published a fake post purporting to quote a Syrian rebel leader saying his forces were withdrawing from Aleppo.
Just as mysteriously as the @ReutersHulk twitter account disappeared the other week, it has returned to Twitter, with not even its creator having any explanation for its resurrection.
Twitter sent Margarita Noriega, the woman behind @ReutersHulk a message saying the account got suspended for wild @-reply use, she told The Atlantic Wire via e-mail.
After less than a day of life, the anonymous Twitter parody account @ReutersHulk got shut down and nobody knows why.
This is why media companies have reporting standards: Presumably Reuters will be able to legally prove its claims in an April 2 story about a Greek bank's questionable property deals.
Everybody's heard about George Zimmerman, but as a lengthy Reuters feature about him shows, we actually know very little about him and the community he patrolled as neighborhood watch captain.
It's a warzone in Syria, unless you happen to be an upper-class supporter of the president. In that case: Life is rather comfortable.
Iran has revoked the press credentials for Reuters reporters in Tehran, the news organization announced Thursday, after Iranian state television said a group of Iranian female ninjas was suing the outlet.
A pair of reports that CNN is preparing to spend $200 million on Mashable, an Internet news website founded by a would-be male model in Scotland, has tech geeks chatting up a storm down in Austin this week.
A minor slip-up in Michael Wolff's latest Guardian column about a possible Reuters deal to acquire British business daily The Financial Times would still make us pretty nervous to dine with the columnist -- not that we've been invited.
A Reuters report from Thursday is not kind to Marco Rubio and his Vice Presidential aspirations, but it also wasn't completely correct when the newswire published it.
There are some great photos coming out of Egypt Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as thousands gathered in Tahrir to mark the anniversary and advocate more political reform.
People in Washington are pretty curious to know just how MF Global (and the rest of the industry it worked in) could lose track of $1.2 billion, but regulators looking into the matter are here to report that they know where the money is, they just aren't telling you.
Stephen Glass, famous for fabricating large parts of numerous magazine pieces in the 90s, has spent years trying to gain admittance to the California bar, and Reuters's Jack Shafer sifted through some of the arguments Glass's team has made for his fitness as a lawyer.
Each Friday we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying and why it matters.
Changing a controversial story without a correction was a "technical glitch"
The post-holiday media moves require a scorecard to keep track of
According to New York, Shafer will join Reuters stable of opinion columnists
The Pulitzer Prize winner's first Reuters column on News Corp. was withdrawn
The race to cover the secretive regime is on as AP works to open its Pyongyang bureau
As soon as a Reuters photographer heard the plane's engine explode, he pulled out his camera
Reuters shooters share war stories from a news stakeout in New York
As President Obama decides not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body
A rough month for HR, with a bureau chief fired and a senior editor reprimanded
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