| How Reuter
Started?
Much of Europe had been linked by telegraph by
the late 1840s, but a 100 mile gap remained between the financial centers
of Brussels in Belgium and Aachen of Prussia. Young Paul Julius Reuter
established a carrier pegion service, with birds carrying dispaches
strapped to their feet. News by pegion wasn't new. In fact, Reuter had picked
up the idea from Charles Havas who had established London-to-Paris and
Brussels-to-Paris pegion routes in 1835.
With the profits from his first Brussels customers,
Reuter moved to London to pick up American news from the new trans atlantic
cable for his pegion delivery. In 1858 he offered his service to newspapers
via telegraph.
Source - The media of mass communication
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