what is a scoop? what was the first scoop that news paper which subscribed to Reuter' s news agency made
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A scoop in journalism is an topic published before others by a journalist or news organization and of exceptional originality, significance, surprise, anticipation or secrecy.
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- Scoops are significant and likely to impact others. A tip may be a new article or a new part of a news story. This could be shocking, unexpected, previously hidden and could be an exclusive source. A scoop can also be characterized retrospectively; a story may be referred to as a scoop because of a historical shift in perspective on a certain occurrence. Scandals are an significant source in scoops because of their secrecy.
- Paul Julius Reuter, an immigrant born in Germany, founded Reuters in 1851. The new cable from Calais-Dover was launched by his office in City of London, transmitting stock market quota from London to Paris. He used pigeons two years earlier between Aachen and Brussels to transport stock prices.
- Reuters subsequently expanded their coverage to the entire British community as well as to other European countries as the organization became known shortly afterwards. It has also grown to include financial and global economic news. Due to a series of major scoops, its popularity quickly grew.
- Reuter’s report of the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln in the year 1865 was Reuter's ts first big scoop, where they were first to bring news of Lincoln's assassination to Europe
- News traveled across the Atlantic in a speed steamboat in the year 1865 and it was 12 days before the European people knew about Lincoln’s assassination in Ford’s Theatre, Washington
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