Reuters Teams With YouTube to Launch Reuters TV Channel
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 01/17/12 -- Reuters today announced the launch of , a new YouTube channel featuring 10 news, commentary and analysis programs covering hard news, finance, politics, technology and special Reuters investigations.
The programming, which will appear on and on , marks Reuters entry into the rapidly growing business of online video programming, in partnership with one of the biggest players in next-generation TV, YouTube. Reuters is employing a creative editing style that is suited for Internet programming and does not mimic traditional TV.
"This deal with YouTube gives Reuters a way to showcase our collection of talented journalists and compelling video from around the world," said Dan Colarusso, Reuters global head of programming. "It will offer unique insights and images that other media companies simply can't match."
Reuters is the biggest news provider among YouTube is working with as it creates original Internet-based programming and reinvents itself as a channel-based video site.
The new shows were developed by television news veteran and Reuters global executive producer Barclay Palmer. They highlight a high-energy, high-quality production style that is unique to any business news broadcasts on traditional television.
The 10 programs will feature highly produced reports and commentary from many of Reuters award-winning, nearly 3,000 journalists around the world:
, featuring investigative journalism and special reports from around the world, in coordination with Reuters award-winning Enterprise unit;
, with Reuters political reporters covering the presidential candidates on the campaign trail;
, with Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon, named by Time magazine one of the Top 25 financial bloggers;
featuring Peter Lauria, editor of technology, media & telecommunications, and his team of reporters covering a media world experiencing massive change;
, with Anthony De Rosa, Reuters Digital's social media editor, dubbed by The New York Times "the undisputed king of Tumblr";
, with Reuters Digital editor Chrystia Freeland interviewing top newsmakers;
, hosted by Chrystia Freeland and featuring Reuters' top commentators and journalists, including , Reuters columnist, author and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; , US editor of Breakingviews; , Reuters columnist, Vanity Fair contributor and author; , tax expert, author and Pulitzer Prize winner; , Reuters columnist, senior writer for The New York Times and winner of the Loeb Award; , Reuters columnist, author and founder of the Yale Journalism Initiative; , President of the Eurasia Group; , Reuters Op-ed editor and author;
, with Lauren Young, personal finance editor and former editor at BusinessWeek and SmartMoney;
, with Jen Rogers, showcasing the remarkable news video that Reuters video journalists shoot around the world, allowing viewers to see and hear that video in greater depth than most television networks can offer;
, explaining in succinct and surprising ways the key topics in the news, ranging from the debt ceiling to the Strait of Hormuz.
The programming will open with Chrystia Freeland's exclusive interview with Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire and sportsman who has made the controversial announcement that he is running for president in Russia, challenging Vladimir Putin.
Reuters.com gets at least 40 million unique visitors around the world monthly and is the fourth most trafficked business-news website. YouTube gets more than 3 billion hits per day.
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest international multimedia news provider touching more than 1 billion people every day. Reuters provides unbiased business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to affluent business professionals through and other digital platforms.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (symbol: TRI). For more information, go to .
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