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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:          Robert Crooke
                  Reuters America Inc.
                  212-603-3587


MICHAEL GREEN TO LEAVE REUTERS BOARD
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London, February 16, 1999 - Reuters, the global information and news group,
announced today that Michael Green, Chairman of Carlton Communications PLC, who
joined the Reuters Board as a non-executive director in July 1992, has decided
not to stand for re-election at the Annual General Meeting on April 20, 1999.

SIR CHRISTOPHER HOGG, Reuters Chairman, said: "Michael has been a valued member
of the Board during several eventful years and all of us warmly appreciate the
contribution he has made."

Mr Green served for two three-year terms.

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