A journalist has publicly resigned from the Reuters news agency, accusing it of “enabling” the Israeli killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Valerie Zink, a photojournalist who worked for the company as a contractor for eight years, posted a picture on social media of her Reuters card severed in two, saying it had been involved in a “betrayal of journalists” with regard to its coverage of the war on Gaza.
She referred to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif earlier this month and the double-tap air strikes that killed five journalists - including Middle East Eye reporters - at Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday.
“When Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative - one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” wrote Zink.
"Reuters’ willingness to perpetuate Israel’s propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel’s genocide.
“Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital.”
MEE contributors Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz were also among those killed in the strike, which Israel has claimed was a “mistake” in its English language communications.
From last September, most people don’t know it’s privately owned:
◾ Owned by the Thomson family, the wealthiest family in Canada.
Canadian multinational information conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and maintains its headquarters at 19 Duncan Street there.
Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation’s purchase of the British company Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. It is majority-owned by The Woodbridge Company (no info found), a holding company for the Thomson family of Canada.
◾ CEO is Steve Hasker
Steve assumed his role of President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thomson Reuters effective March 15, 2020. Previously, Steve served as Senior Adviser to TPG Capital, a private equity firm, Chief Executive Officer of CAA Global (which includes entities like CAA China, merchant bank Evolution Media and the incubator CAA Ventures), a TPG Capital portfolio company, and global president and chief operating officer of Nielsen, an information, data and measurement firm. Steve spent more than a decade with McKinsey as a partner in the global media, information and technology practice. Before joining McKinsey, Steve spent five years in several financial roles in the United States, Russia and Australia.
Steve started his career with PwC, where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He then received an MBA and master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. He grew up in Australia and during his career he has lived and worked across North America, Europe and Asia. Steve is also a non-executive director of Appen Limited and a member of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Damn, and Reuters has been a pretty solid source of information. This sucks.
has been entirely worthless since deliberately reporting Tel Aviv fans attacking people as a Pogrom against Jews and most likely never been worthy of it’s reputation.
Nah, people who share it’s bias have just done a good job of pretending it was a solid source of information.
…earlier this month and the double-tap air strikes that killed…
Hold on, I know this may be immaterial concerning the actual point of the strike, but I was certain news outlets were attributing them to tank fire.
Nah it was claimed/confirmed to be a guided missile yesterday. I didnt check the source so take it with a grain of salt, but they showed images of what they claimed was the missile in flight.
Doesnt really matter either way because it was definitely not an accident. They bombed the exact same spot again after people started trying to recover the bodies and found the camera equipment.
TW dead bodies can be seen after the second round of bombs (~0:55) https://youtu.be/PxummOvAT6U?t=25
They had no problem with two years of enabling the killing of Palestinians in general though
