Reuters Insight project screeches to a halt

5 comments February 15th, 2008 David Bush - Iasta

I was actually starting to get used to my daily email from Reuters, which I was eventually able to set up with a better topic rule list. So, in the middle of December, I scratched my head a couple times trying to remember the last time I got my sourcing news. Finally, I took the time to email Maud Larpent about it, who graciously replied.

Hi Dave

Yes the daily emails have been stopped… Reuters has moved to the next stage of development of the Reuters Insight service and as a result has closed the pilot on Monday 17th December 2007. The team will use learnings, and your feedback, to drive the next stage of developing the business.

This approach will ensure we are able to concentrate on providing the best service possible. We appreciate your commitment to and support of the Reuters Insight service. We’ll continue to keep you up to date with our plans for the future and please continue to contact us, at go.global@reuters.com.

Kind Regards

Maud

I really liked that service, although I never understood what Reuters was getting out of it. Although, I thought the filters could be improved, it did a pretty good job of sending me about 1-2 articles of interest per day.

So, that’s the update, if any one else was getting those and wondered what happened, since I never got a notice of suspension. Maybe it will be back with more features and push traffic into more Reuters affiliated sites. If I could have drilled into more specific categories, it would have been a really slick way to automate my sourcing news.

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