Background and Format:Reuters is a global information company providing information on the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world. Reuters was first founded in 1851 and originally covered mainly business related news stories. Over the years, Reuters grew rapidly and by 1980, the service expanded its global reporting network to media, financial, economic and current events marketsThomson Reuters is an information company created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI). Thomson Reuters is a Canadian-controlled corporation operating from Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Thomson Reuters operates in 93 countries, employs upwards of 3,000 journalists in 200 bureaus worldwide. They publish anywhere from 400-450 stories a day reaching more than 1 billion people every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world’s media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com.The Company is organized into two divisions:    Markets Division: formed from integrating Thomson Financial with Reuters which includes media and the newswire.    Professional Division:            Legal - formerly North American Legal and Legal & Regulatory; primarily West, makers of Westlaw.        Healthcare & Science - formerly Thomson Scientific and Thomson Healthcare        Tax & Accounting - formerly Thomson Tax & Accounting       Ad rates:Advertising guidelines can be found here, for ad rates email advertising_sales@thomsonreuters.com.Awards:2019 - Amnesty Media Awards, Investigation: Myanmar Burning (winner) 2018 - British Media Awards, Tech Provider of the Year (nominated) 2018 - newsawards, International Digital Innovation of the Year: Reuters Connect – A single destination for all your content needs (winner) 2018 - Amnesty Media Awards, Outstanding Impact Award: Duterte’s War (winner)2018 - Amnesty Media Awards, Investigation: Duterte’s War (winner)2017 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Digital Sales Team of the Year (nominated)2017 - Online Media Awards, Best use of Photography (nominated)2017 - newsawards, International Digital Innovation of the Year: ONEm – Bringing Reuters News to millions with mobile internet (nominated)2015 - Press Awards, The Digital Innovation Award (nominated)2015 - Online Media Awards, Best Campaigning/Investigative Journalism: Water's Edge (nominated)2015 - Online Media Awards, Best Campaigning/Investigative Journalism: Farmaceuticals (nominated)2015 - Online Media Awards, Best Campaigning/Investigative Journalism: The Echo Chamber (nominated)2015 - Online Media Awards, Chairman's Award: Water's Edge (winner)2014 - The Press A

Background and Format: Launched as a 24-hour news channel in 1989, Sky News is a rolling news channel. It delivers breaking news, headlines and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide. Sky News is a 24-hour, multi-media news operation providing non-stop rolling news on television and online. Sky News is also available across a range of mobile devices as well as national and international radio. The news service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. It is also provides content for news services in the UK and around the world, including Yahoo! News, and is available on Apple TV and Roku. Production Company: Sky Plc Schedule Times: 24 hours a day, seven days a week A full on-air schedule can be viewed here.  Pre-recorded?: Sky News is a rolling news channel with the majority of coverage broadcast live. Some footage for certain programmes will be pre-recorded. Target Audience: - Sky News targets viewers of all ages - The average Sky News viewer is aged 54 - The channel has slightly more male viewers than female - Sky News reaches 107 million homes in 118 countries (Source: Publisher) - news.sky.com receives between eight and 10 million monthly unique users with around 135 million monthly page views (Source: Publisher) Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints. Please visit BARB at www.barb.co.uk for more information on audience share Top Tips for PRs: For News Desk today stories, please call +44 (0)20 7032 4411 otherwise call the Planning Desk on +44 (0)20 7032 4427 Press releases are best directed to the planning team. If it is for a future event, email news.plan@sky.uk To contact the team for a news story the same day, email news@sky.com. Photos and video can also be sent to this address To send pictures via a mobile phone, use the number 84501 The breaking news Twitter feed can be viewed here Approaching the team in advance is essential and it is helpful to be available at short notice in order to ensure coverage. The sooner the planning team receives a pitch the better The planning team will have a clear idea of the stories which will be reported on the night before An editorial meeting takes place at 8am, with resources beginning to be dedicated at 8:20am. Pitches received after this time are unlikely to make that day's news Stories pitched by PRs tend to be more suited to morning television. Afternoons are more often filled with live or rolling coverage Strength of picture is crucial for a pitch for Sky television. Stories without accompanying pictures are unlikely to be used Case studies are very useful to the news and production team. While correspondents and experts with extensive contacts will often be readily available, finding a person who is able to talk firsthand on a particular subject they have experienced will be more difficult for the production team Different opportunities exist across Sky's multi-platforms. Fo

Background and Format:BBC World Service aims to provide coverage of international stories for an audience worldwide, available on 92-95 FM, 198 kHz longwave and digital.  Production Company:BBC.Target Audience:BBC World Service, as part of the BBC Global News Division, aims to bring international news to audiences around the world and the UK. The BBC World Service is available through a range of radio, TV and online outlets. These relationships enable the BBC to offer a selection of its content to a wider audience. Click here to find partners that carry BBC World Service content in English.Circulation:Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020.Tips for PRs: The BBC World Service Group includes the BBC World Service, BBC Global News Ltd (which comprises the BBC World News Television Channel and BBC.com/news), BBC Monitoring and BBC Media Action (the BBC's international development charity). To propose programme ideas to the World Service, you will need to do so through an in-house department or a registered independent company. World Service has a Registered Suppliers list of Independent Production Companies. The BBC cannot consider ideas from companies not on this register. If you wish to join the Suppliers List please contact Vanessa.Morris.&.Karen.Howe@bbc.co.uk. Companies with significant production experience will be considered. BBC World Service Programme Guidelines can be viewed here. BBC editorial guidelines can be viewed here. The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions.Awards: 2019 - Online Media Awards, Podcast of the Year: The Food Chain (nominated) 2019 - Online Media Awards, Podcast of the Year: Death in Ice Valley (winner) 2019 - Online Media Awards, Best Use of Crowd Sourcing or Citizen Journalism: Death in Ice Valley's community of Facebook sleuths (winner) 2019 - Online Media Awards, Outstanding Digital Team of the Year (winner) 2019 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, News Technology: BBC Africa Eye – The Anatomy of a Killing (winner) 2019 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs – International: BBC Africa Eye - Sweet Sweet Codeine (nominated) 2018 - ARIAS, Best Fictional Storytelling: The Final Take: Bowie In The Studio (bronze) 2018 - ARIAS, Funniest show: International New Year Comedy Celebration (silver) 2018 - ARIAS, Best New Show/Podcast: Death in Ice Valley (silver) 2018 - Online Media Awards, Outstanding Digital Team of the Year (winner)2018 - Amnesty Media Awards, Documentaries (Radio and Podcast): Assignment: The Lost Children of ISIS (winner) 2016 - SJA Sports Journalism Awards, Multi Media Sports Package: Iceland; The Force Awakens (nominated)2016 - British Journalism Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalism (nominated)2016 - Amnesty Media Awards, Radio: Stealing Innocence In Malawi (winner)2016 - Amnesty Media Awards, Multimedia: BBC Media Action, Your Phone Is Now A Refugee’s Pho

Designed as a news magazine written for upscale readers who have a high degree of intelligence and critical capacity and are interested in contemporary trends in finance, politics, the arts, literature, books, cuisine, public and foreign affairs, science and technology, culture, food and travel. Editorial content is aimed at the serious reader and is comprised of reflective pieces and non-fiction that provide different perspectives on what is occurring in contemporary society.The magazine was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, MA, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets, and encouraging major careers. It published leading writers' commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs.The magazine's founders were a group of prominent writers of national reputation, who included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell. Lowell was its first editor. The editor-in-chief as of November 2009 is James Bennet. The publisher as of November 2009 is Jay Lauf, who is also a vice-president of Atlantic Media Company.The Family section looks at covers the political, cultural and economic factors that impact American family life. The section has it's own public Facebook group and newsletter and runs coverage both print and online as well as in The Atlantic's podcasts and video content.The switchboard will transfer the caller directly to the journalist.Direct contributed content to submissions@theatlantic.com. When sending in content be sure to submit it as a PDF. Also include a short paragraph about the author and a description of the piece being submitted.

Background and Format: Launched in 1843, The Economist is published by The Economist Group weekly and is aimed at readers interested in domestic & international politics as well as sharing the perspective of the "classical liberalism of the 19th century" and the "radical centre." Covers British and international news, business, finance & economics, science & technology, books & arts and economic & financial indicators. For more information about advertising rates, the team can be found here.   Circulation: Source: ABC Monthly Unique Users: 9,660,092 (Source: ABC) Gorkana meets... Tom Standage at The Economist - October 2016 The write up can be found here. The video can be viewed here. Awards: 2019 - British Media Awards, International Media Brand of the Year (gold)  2019 - British Media Awards, Editorial Campaign of the Year: Open Future (gold)  2019 - British Media Awards, Commercial Campaign of the Year: Open Future (nominated)  2018 - British Journalism Awards, Technology Journalism: Babbage (nominated) 2018 - BSME Awards, Cover of the Year - Consumer (winner)  2018 - PPA Awards, International Media Brand of the Year: The Economist's The World in 2018 (nominated) 2018 - PPA Awards, Consumer Media Brand of the Year: The Economist's The World in 2018 (nominated) 2018 - British Media Awards, International Media Brand of the Year: The World in 2018 (nominated) 2018 - British Media Awards, Subscription Team of the Year (nominated) 2017 - PPA Digital Awards, Digital Launch Of The Year: The Economist on Snapchat (winner) 2017 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Best Research/Insight Project: Thought Leadership Disrupted (nominated) 2017 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Best Use of Data: Tracking Energy Demand Trends (nominated) 2017 - Online Media Awards, Best Use of Social Media (nominated) 2017 - British Media Awards, Best Commercial Use of Data: “Raising Eyebrows and Subscriptions” (gold) 2017 - British Media Awards, Event of the Year: The Economist’s Pride & Prejudice (silver) 2017 - British Media Awards, Video Project of the Year: RecoVR: Mosul, a collective reconstruction (nominated) 2017 - British Media Awards, Media Company of the Year (silver) 2016 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Best Research / Insight Project: Millennials Research (nominated) 2016 - PPA Awards, Digital Innovation of the Year (consumer media): The Economist Films (nominated) 2016 - PPA Awards, Best Use of Social Media: Independence Social Media Campaign (nominated) 2016 - PPA Awards, Front Cover of the Year (nominated) 2016 - Online Media Awards, Best Use of Data for Commercial Gain: brand response marketing campaign (winner) 2016 - Online Media Awards, B2C Digital Product: Espresso (winner) 2016 - British Media Awards, Video Project of the Year: Economist Films (winner) 2016 - British Media Awards, App of the Year: Espresso (winner) 2015 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Use of Mobile: The Economist Espresso (nominated) 2015 - PPA Awards, International Consumer Media Brand