Reuters is ready to stand up for the press — and embrace AI

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast , and co-host of The Vergecast Today, I’m talking with Paul Bascobert, who is the president of Reuters, the news and information service you have undoubtedly heard of. This is part of a special Thursday series we’re running this month to explore how leaders at some of the world’s biggest companies make decisions in such a rapidly changing environment. You know, Decoder stuff. Reuters is a great company for us to kick off with, because it’s been around basically forever. The company was founded in 1851, when the hot technology enabling new kinds of media was the telegraph, and the entire concept of a “wire service” was a wild new idea. Here, today in 2025, the tech driving media has clearly changed more than just a little bit. Distribution in a world full of iPhones and generative AI is a really different proposition than distributing media 50 years before the invention of the radio. It’s even a pretty different proposition ... Read full article.