Thomson Reuters Completes Acquisition of Breaki...

Deal positions the newly combined team as the global leader in
                        financial commentary


NEW YORK/LONDON (December 1, 2009) -Thomson Reuters today confirms
that it has completed its acquisition of Breakingviews, a leading
provider of agenda-setting financial insight, positioning the newly
combined commentary organization as the global leader in
point-of-view journalism servicing the financial markets.

Reuters Breakingviews provides concise, relevant and sophisticated
commentary on all major economic and business news, including key
developments in monetary and fiscal policy, mergers and acquisitions,
capital markets, and commodities and energy. Reuters Breakingviews
comments on those developments that are critical to, and have the
potential to move, financial markets.

The output of the combined team of Reuters original commentary team
and the Breakingviews commentary team will be known as Reuters
Breakingviews making a clear distinction between the organization's
news service and commentary offerings. The Reuters Breakingviews
attribution will designate the commentary and opinion of the
named authors, while Reuters will designate the expert sourced news
and analysis that has moved markets and provided insight for more
than 150 years.

"A fundamental plank of our Editorial strategy for making Reuters the
indispensable news service for the 21st century is to expand our
traditional fact-based news coverage to also offer agenda-setting
point-of-view journalism.  I am confident we will build upon
reputation and expertise from both Reuters and Breakingviews and
leverage the expertise of the combined organization," said David
Schlesinger, editor in chief, Reuters.

Reuters Breakingviews currently has about 30 columnists based in
London, New York, Hong Kong, Paris, Washington, Moscow and Madrid,
with immediate plans for expanded coverage in the Gulf, Japan,
Germany and India.

The newly combined service is available on all Thomson Reuters
desktops with selected commentaries to appear on Reuters.com.
Reuters Breakingviews also reaches a broader audience of nearly 4.5
million investors and opinion formers via daily columns in many of
the world's most influential newspapers, including The New York
Times, Le Monde, The Daily Telegraph and the International Herald
Tribune.

Hugo Dixon, editor, Reuters Breakingviews, who will be running the
combined commentary team, said: "The enlarged team will have global
reach, allowing us to react more rapidly to breaking news and cover
more stories. We will also now be able to reach hundreds of thousands
more influential readers through Thomson Reuters desktops."


About 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, legal, tax and
accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the
world's most trusted news organization.  With headquarters in New
York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson
Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100
countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock
Exchange (TSX: TRI) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI). For more
information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

About Breakingviews
Breakingviews was founded in 1999 to provide online financial
commentary aimed at a professional audience. It is one of a handful
of journalism websites to have successfully introduced a subscription
model. The company also has a thriving syndication business. Branded
Breakingviews columns appear in 15 leading publications around the
world. The company continued to grow through the financial crisis
with revenue rising last year by 23%. Since its inception,
Breakingviews has been influential on a broad range of stories
including the TMT bubble, numerous takeover sagas, the credit bubble
and subsequent banking crisis, and how the financial system should
now be reformed.



CONTACT
Thomson Reuters and Breakingviews
Courtney Dolan
Head of Public Relations, Editorial
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