Editorial Highlights

Stories That Made the Headlines

Explore the best of Reuters latest editorial coverage, from all corners of the globe.

The only shot of Andrew’s arrest

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Reuters captured the exclusive, iconic image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving police custody - a photograph that quickly went viral, was published by media outlets around the world, and will be remembered for years to come.

The end to an epic Winter Olympics

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As the Olympics comes to an end, the Reuters team delivered world-class photography from the competition drawing from our journalist’s expertise, meticulous planning, and extensive on-the-ground resources.

Every angle of a star-studded BAFTA

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Reuters staff was covered every detail of the BAFTAs. From the big winner One Day After The Other to the award-winning performance of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, our team captured every angle of Britain’s top movie awards.

The Helmet: first on Reuters

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Our integrated coverage of the Winter Olympics allowed to be first and best with the coverage of the disqualification of Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych for wearing a helmet decorated with images of compatriots who had died in the war with Russia. Our team was on the story with an interview long before the Opening Ceremony, kept in touch with the athlete afterwards, and was already reporting the ban for over 45 minutes before other media outlets. 

Life in Gaza

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"After two years of war, this photo shows Gaza in an unreported way: an image of life amid the destruction,” Mahmoud says. 

Reuters Mahmoud Issa’s frame of a five-a-side soccer match under way in Gaza against a background of complete devastation one of the high-impact images of the week.

The complete picture: the sentencing of Jimmy Lai

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Reuters local team was well prepared to cover the sentencing pf Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who received 20 years on national security charges. The reporting spanned the proceedings themselves as well as local and UK reactions, providing a complete picture.

Sharp focus in Italy

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After years of careful planning, the Reuters team is in full swing to cover the Olympic Games, with a full staff on-the-ground to deliver thousands of pictures, hundreds of stories and scores of video edits, first-hand to our clients.

AI searching the Epstein files

Epstein

Reuters leadership in AI helped our team identify newsworthy documents from the most recent release of over 3 million documents of the Epstein files, using proprietary technology to interrogate the database. 

Elections in Thailand and Japan

Japan

As Thailand and Japan had their elections this weekend, Reuters teams ramped up their coverage including preview pieces, profiles, Cityshots and Country Files to support clients with all they need to tell the story. 

The aftermath of the ICE shooting

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Reuters photographers were there to capture the moments after the incident that took Alex Pretti’s life, including the iconic shot of the moment a heavily armed federal agent fired munition with the context of the crime scene tape. The shot also spoke to a growing need in the media business: vertical shots.

Explaining the Nipah virus

Nipah virus

Video and text explainers of the new deadly virus identified in India helped set customers agenda, complementing our local coverage of the outbreak in West Bengal, and partner content in Thailand.

Extreme weather around the globe

Extreme-Weather

From a well-planned and executed coverage of the snowstorm in the U.S. to a landslide in the Sicilian town of Niscemi, the Reuters team was on the ground (and in the air with drones) showing the impact of extreme weather, including in conflict zones like Kyiv.

Thorough Coverage of ICE Operations in Minnesota

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Our U.S. team continues its comprehensive coverage of ICE operations in Minnesota, from verifying user-generated footage of the Alex Pretti incident to following up on claims of wrongful immigrant detention. 

First On The Scene: Spanish Train Disaster

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Reuters delivered the first global alert on the mountain train crash in Spain after our local team's seven-hour journey to the remote site.


Greenland: from Davos to Nuuk

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From covering the historical moment Trump announced a deal after hours at Davos, to on-the-ground coverage in Greenland, Reuters global team delivered drone footage, interviews, reactions and personal stories on this geopolitically significant story. 

 

The full story on the social media ban in Australia

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Reuters covered every imaginable angle on under-16s ban from social media in Australia: from teenagers, parents, to children in other countries.

Floods through the lens of Reuters photojournalists

Floods
From static drone shots capturing the US Pacific Northwest to impressive shots of the flooding in the historic city of York, in the UK, Reuters photographers go all in to capture the impact of climate events around the world.​

Thailand-Cambodia: the human impact

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"Once we hit the ground the teams in Thailand and Cambodia provided a wide range of beautifully crafted edits focusing on the human impact from the recent attacks," says Ahmed Assar. 

Leading coverage of COP30 in Brazil

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Exclusive breaking news moments from the COP30 Conference in Brazil captured first, including indigenous protests, comprehensive interviews and strong drone footage used by clients around the world.

Extensive coverage of the longest U.S. Government shutdown

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Reuters led global coverage of the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown, informing the news globally.

Innovative coverage to show the devastation in Pokrovsk

Pokrovsk

Combined archival material, drone footage and local sources merged to tell the before and after of the story, resulting in one of the most used global stories in the week it was published.