Reuters

Reuters is a London-based global wire service, part of Thomson Reuters, tracing its founding to 1851. It operates from more than 200 locations worldwide, and its editorial Charter, the Trust Principles, commits it by statute to accuracy, independence and freedom from bias, a structure that predates most competitors' equivalent codes.

Its output feeds directly into other outlets' reporting, including this desk's own, so its sourcing methodology matters as much as any single story it breaks. On 24 May a Reuters source flagged Iran's roughly 440kg uranium stockpile as excluded from Ceasefire terms, days before three governments gave contradictory public accounts of the same clause . On 11 April it reported Iran's wounded leadership governing by audio conference since 28 February, a claim Iranian state television tried to counter with footage fact-checkers identified as fabricated .

Reuters also revises its own figures in public: on 4 May it cut its TurkStream year-on-year flow estimate to a 1.7% drop , the kind of self-correction that factors into how much weight this desk puts on its wire copy.