Reuters introduced its general U.S. news service, Reuters America, in late 2010 with one client, the Tribune Co. Now three major portals -- Yahoo, AOL and MSNBC.com -- have signed on to Reuters' U.S. news push.
It's a big step for a 160-year-old organization once known almost exclusively for business and financial news. It's now on a mission to become the "best journalism organization in the world," as editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said last fall, with a much higher profile in the U.S.
