Reuters Best of the Year

Reuters showcases their Best of The Year images, these are some of the best photo-journalism and documentary images from around the world.  The photographers not only give the back story of the images but they also give you technical specs on the images too.

Reuters has an interesting history with a Canadian twist, Reuters was started in 1850 by Paul Juilus Reuter who used the relatively new technology of the telegraph to transmit news stories through-out Europe.  Reuter is now owned by The Thomson Corporation which was started by a Canadian, Roy Herbert Thomson who's father was a telegraphist of all things.

Roy Thomson owned the Timmins Daily Press and Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall is named after him, after a sizeable donation was made in his honour.