The last of the Reuters

At some point it's not the newest, shiny thing but what you do with it that counts. Baroness Reuters passed on this weekend — the last of the line. From her obit on — where else? — Reuters:

A patron of the arts, she was the widow of Oliver, 4th Baron de Reuter, whose grandfather Paul Julius Reuter established his news service in London in 1851 after starting out in Aachen, Germany, using telegraph cables and carrier pigeons.

In addition to the use of carrier pigeons, the company has a rich history of riding tech waves and with that changing the worlds of finance and journalism.