Revenue Down at Thomson Reuters' Media Division

The Reuters news service now shares a dubious distinction with The Washington Post: it’s the lackluster media arm of an otherwise solidly performing company.

Thomson Reuters announced today that its media division, which includes Reuters, experienced an 8% decline in revenue for 2009. The company said the flagging revenue was a result of “continued pressure in the Professional Publishing and Advertising business.”

Reuters is part of the company’s larger Markets division, whose profits experienced a drop of 2% from 2008 to 2009.

For the entire company, revenue increased from 2008 to 2009, although operating profit fell 6% to $1.58

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