THE GREATER REUTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14

THE GREATER REUTERS

fcATEST REORGANISATION.

The London and provincial .newspapers have been giving, prominence recently to the latest reorganisation of Reuters, and ..to „ the purchase by sthe world agency of the Port of London Authority's lar.ge building*, ofi.' the Thames Embankment as .a ; supplement to the existing Reuter premises in the city. To the new building, which' is in the heart of the newspaper charter, behind Fleet Street, the administration and international and interImperial news departments of the agency •will.be transferred.

;The newspaper reader who is accustomed to regard the name "Router"* as signifying reliability in news, can have no-idea-of • the* network of the agency's wganisation, states the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." Reuters' London office is not merely engaged in the reception of foreign news and its distribution to English newspapers,..but at the same time sends news all over the world, not only from " Britain/ but from every- • country .abroad;', The ."first, correspondents were appointed only in European capitals, but Reuters now have representatives in 'every important city, of the world with connections in smaller places, so that not only the great oversea, countries, hut remote places in Africa and Asia are at the end of the-telegraph. Reuters' dispatches confront you daily equally in. the great cities like Calcutta, Shanghai, and Tokio, and' in the solitary places like Mecca, and the wilds of Arabia, Persia, and the Sudan.

The central administration, which goes to the new premises, controls the incomsng new&for the Press of the United. Kingdom., It also controls the great outgoing services supplied to practically every daily newspaper on the Continent, through the agencies allied to Reuters, and-to newspapers all over the Empire, like_ China and Japan. 'The central administration further controls the Reuter general managers in Bombay,/ Shanghai, Cairo, Capetown, Melbourne, and New York. 'They in turn,. respectively, are responsible for 1 the services, and control 'the managers and correspondents, in.: (lj India arid the neighbouring countries,. (2) China, Japan, the Straits, Manchuriai, and Siberia; (3) Egypt, the Sudan; and Palestine; (4). South and Central Africa ; i (5) -Australia and New Zealand; and (6) America. Territories not included in the foregoing,categories come under the 'direct control of the head office in London.

One of-the objects of the present reorganisation is to take full advantage of the improved methods of handling news by- cable and -^wireless which have come into .-existence; since, the iwar' and-which are still in>process of being perfected. '