Thomson Reuters is a modern news and information giant. It is worth more than $85 billion (£64 billion) and is one of the leading sources of news around the world. Paul Julius Reuter started Reuters with an office in 1851. Since then it was the first to tell the world about the sinking of the Titantic, the construction of the Berlin Wall and, in more modern times, that Mark Zuckerberg planned to float Facebook on the stock market. It's also won a string of Pulitzer Prizes. However, today, the bulk of the company's revenues comes from law, tax, accounting and other specialists areas

In this episode of the Business Leader Podcast, Graham Ruddick speaks to chief executive Steve Hasker about the story so far and what may come next, including all the work that Thomson Reuters is doing on artificial intelligence

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