Reuters is a great company for us because it is basically forever. The company was founded in 1851, when scorching technology enabling fresh types of media was a telegraph, and the whole concept of “wire service” was a wild fresh idea.
Here, today in 2025, the media that drives the technology clearly changed more than just a little. The distribution in a world full of iPhones and generative artificial intelligence is a really different proposition than the media distribution 50 years before the invention of the radio. This is even a completely different proposition than just 20 or 30 years ago, in the era Web 1.0.
There is a lot there and you will hear how we basically go deep Decoder The topic is. For example, Paul and I spent a lot of time talking about how organization with heritage as elderly as Reuters can still find the audience and succeed in the current age of digital media, which are dominated by social platforms. The audience no longer reads newspapers and I’m not even sure if the next generation of messages will even visit websites. So Reuters does a lot of work to make sure his Works can find and reach fresh recipients.
Decoder Listeners who know our other episodes with media leaders know that I am very engaging, how generative artificial intelligence will face the news business. And how immense media companies are thinking about licensing their content to AI companies, disputed with the same companies, and even cooperating with them to build fresh types of products.
Paul had many really engaging thoughts here, because Reuters has always had licensed content, because it is really a wire service. For Paweł, goose is carefully thinking about the training data AI and AI. I really pressed difficult to get difficult numbers, so I think you really like it.
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