Thomson Reuters Foundation
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| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| Website | Trust.org |
Thomson Reuters Foundation is the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information provider. The Foundation is a registered charity in the United States and United Kingdom and is headquartered in Canary Wharf, London.
The current CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation is Monique Villa, a French national and former Managing Director of Reuters Media and Chairman of Action Images. She was ranked 43rd of the world’s 100 most influential people in business ethics in 2011 by Ethisphere.
The Foundation is primarily funded by Thomson Reuters.
TrustLaw, an award-winning service created in 2010 to spread the practice of pro bono worldwide by connecting the best law firms and corporate legal teams around the world with NGOs and social enterprises in need of free legal assistance. Since its inception, TrustLaw has generated the equivalent of $70 million in pro bono support. Today, TrustLaw boasts over 3,000 members across 177 countries, including over 550 law firms and 2,450 high-impact social enterprises and NGOs. TrustLaw also publishes an annual Index of Pro Bono - which captures and analyzes global pro bono trends across the legal industry - as well as legal guidance on the protection of human rights and the available recourse for violations thereof.
Since 1983, The Foundation has used the Reuters principles of impartiality to train reporters around the world. The Foundation provides practical, skills-based training programmes available in seven languages and across 170 countries. To date, over 13,000 journalists have been trained internationally on 27 highly specialized training topics.
In addition, the Foundation sets up and manages independent news platforms: in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the Foundation launched Aswat Masriya, an independent and unbiased political news website which quickly established itself as an authoritative mainstream source of information, becoming an essential tool for Egypt's transition to democracy. In 2013, the Foundation launched Source, a new website providing business and economic news from Zimbabwe. Ahead of the country's first general elections in November 2015, the Foundation also launched Myanmar Now, a new portal dedicated to free and independent journalism in Myanmar led by Burmese journalists. The latter won the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali Media Prize 2015 for a feature on underage sex workers.
Set up in 2006 and part of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, the Foundation funds the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), a research centre for international comparative journalism.
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