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Reuters collaborates with Graphiq to deliver suite of interactive data visualizations to publishers

Thomson Reuters (Globe Newswire) - 30 August 2016

NEW YORK (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news provider, announced a collaboration with semantic technology company Graphiq to provide publishers access to an increased number of data-driven interactive visualizations on a broad range of topics including financial news, sports, entertainment and more. Data visualizations will be available to publishers free of charge through Reuters Open Media Express and to Reuters News Agency customers globally. Reuters will also publish these interactive visualizations within news coverage on Reuters.com.
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As part of the relationship, Reuters customers will have access to Graphiq's extensive library of data visualizations, as well as receive paired interactives with Reuters text stories and multimedia packages. Visualizations will work across devices and platforms when embedded on publishers' sites, with data updating in real time.

"Publishers are increasingly looking to interactive visualizations as a way to engage their audiences and provide visual context on data-driven news stories," said Bo Rosser, Global Head of Text and Data products for Reuters News Agency. "This partnership reflects our dedication to delivering our customers a diverse range of multimedia news coverage to meet their changing needs."

"Conventional methods for creating and pairing data-driven content with articles hasn't scaled for publishers," said Alex Rosenberg, Vice President of Enterprise at Graphiq. "Marrying Reuters global reach with Graphiq's semantic platform and visualization library will democratize access to data insights for the more than one billion people around the world that Reuters reaches each day."

Publishers can access this new suite of data visualizations on Reuters Open Media Express.

Reuters

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Follow news about Reuters at @ReutersPR.

Thomson Reuters

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 and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchange.

About Graphiq

Graphiq is a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2010, the company has amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 billion data points and 25 billion curated relationships. The Graphiq knowledge graph is sourced from the world's most authoritative public, private and proprietary sources, and forms the foundation of all Graphiq products.

CONTACTS
Heather Carpenter

PR Manager, Head of Special Projects

Reuters

heather.carpenter@thomsonreuters.com

646-223-8551 



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