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Reuters Media to Extend Reach into Newsrooms Using InfoDesk Solution

NEW YORK

NY-REUTERS

Dec. 3, 2003

Business Editors / High-Tech Writers

Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY; London: RTR), the global information company, and InfoDesk, Inc., a leading provider of real-time information distribution services and technology, today announced a marketing agreement that will allow Reuters to broaden its reach into North and South American media outlets and government agencies.

Reuters Media customers now have the option to receive Reuters news using InfoDesk's Internet based news delivery platform and content management capabilities and will be able to obtain InfoDesk directly through Reuters. "We are pleased to leverage InfoDesk's easy to use, plug-and-play content management solution to reach hundreds of new desktops throughout the Americas. This agreement underscores our commitment to offering our clients options in receiving Reuters content," said Michael Salk, Vice President, Media.

InfoDesk will help Reuters reach additional media companies in Latin America by addressing the need for a low-cost and reliable content delivery platform with key functionality.

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Reuters, a company known for providing indispensable information. This agreement marks an important milestone for InfoDesk and underscores our approach to marketing our services," commented Sterling Stites, President and Chief Executive Officer, InfoDesk.

About Reuters

Reuters (www.about.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe based on our reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. We have 16,000 staff in 94 countries, including some 2,400 editorial staff in 197 bureaux serving approximately 130 countries, making Reuters the world's largest international multimedia news agency. In 2002, the Reuters Group had revenues of GBP3.6 billion.

Reuters and the sphere logo are the trade-marks of the Reuters group of companies.

About InfoDesk

InfoDesk, Inc. (www.idsk.com) is a leading provider of, digital content distribution services and technology to publishers and corporations. The company's solution enables real-time personalized distribution, over IP networks, of text, photographs, audio and video to a comprehensive range of devices and applications and automates Web site publishing. The solution supports a wide range of structured and unstructured data formats including popular XML and ANPA standards and enables publishers to quickly customize and target content products to meet market and customer needs. InfoDesk distributes information from the world's leading information brands including Reuters, the Associated Press, Dow Jones, Agence France Presse, Knight Ridder Tribune, Financial Times, Reed Business Information and many others.



Reuters
Samantha Topping, +646 223 5223
Samantha.topping@reuters.com
or
Susan Allsopp, +44 20 7542 8404
susan.allsopp@reuters.com
or
InfoDesk
Lynn Epstein, +914 798 2422
lynn@idsk.com

CATEGORY: Contract/Agreement;

INDUSTRY: Other Communications; Publishing; Communications; Software; Data Management; Technology;

STATE: New York;

REGION: North America;

COUNTRY: United States;

URL: businesswire.com

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