A Life in Reuters
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- Author(s) Jones, Roderick
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1951
- Pages 496pp
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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An autobiography largely of the business life of Sir Roderick Jones who started out as an assistant correspondent of Reuters in South Africa at the time of the South African War, subsequently ran Reuters operations in South Africa before returning to the UK to head the business, reorganise it and become its principal proprietor. Retired 1941. Provides a detailed account of the business as seen through his work within it. Sections include: 'South African background to my life'; 'Introduction to London'; 'The third Reuters regime begins' including 'Struggle for the Chair' / 'Conception of reconstruction' / 'Mark Napier and I buy the business'; 'First steps to newspaper ownership' - including much about the role of Lord Northcliffe'; 'Concluding negotiations with the newspapers'; 'The American equation' including 'The AP and the mutualising of Reuters' / 'American infiltration'; 'The World News Centre'; 'South African interlude'; 'Retirement from Reuters'