The Reuters news service is founded in…

March 1851 CE

The Reuters news service is founded in October 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter in Britain at the London Royal Exchange.

Paul Reuter had worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848.

These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen's Reuters House.

Upon moving to England, he founded Reuter's Telegram Company in 1851.

Headquartered in London, the company initially covers  commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and business firms.

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