The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born British baron Paul Reuter.

Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the revolutions of 1848.

So a subversive, radical commie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

Reuter was born in a Jewish family as Israel Beer Josaphat in Kassel, Electorate of Hesse (now part of the Federal Republic of Germany).[4] His father, Samuel Levi Josaphat, was a rabbi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reuter