Multiple employees of the British-based news agency Reuters spoke out in a report released yesterday about what they see as pro-Israel bias among the company’s editors and management, Anadolu Agency reports.

The latest incident that led to a backlash over Reuters’ biased reporting was when Israel killed Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif earlier this month. Although Al Sharif previously worked for the newswire, even winning a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his work there, Reuters used the headline “Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader” for their coverage of al-Sharif’s death.

The public backlash was not limited to the billion-viewer audience of the global newswire nor to this incident, as the concern it sparked among some staff at Reuters produced an internal review of bias within their reporting.

An internal study by Reuters journalists analysed 499 reports tagged as “Israel-Palestine” published between Oct 7 and Nov 14, 2023 and found a “consistent pattern of assigning more resources to covering stories affecting Israelis as opposed to Palestinians”, according to investigative journalism group Declassified UK.

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