Reuters global chief calls for greater transparency in news reporting methods

Back in its early days in the mid-nineteenth century, Reuters won competitive advantage in the news industry by using carrier pigeons to send out its dispatches ahead of the trains. Now the famous agency has a 21st century journalistic gizmo for outperforming its rivals in the race to breaking stories, this time based on complex computer algorithms.
The new Reuters News Tracer, it is anticipated, will enable the 166-year-old organisation to detect via postings on social media the first outc