TR History & People
In 1872, West Publishing was founded by John B. West and his brother in this city.
What is St. Paul, Minnesota?
♫ If there's something strange, In your neighborhood, Who you gonna call? ♫
Who are the Ghostbusters?
Microsoft's AI Assistant
What is Copilot?
"Pivot"!
What is Friends?
The place to go to acknowledge our coworker’s excellent work.
What is Appreciate?
This head of Editorial’s first job involved farmwork, including bottle-feeding lambs and hauling bales of hay.
Who is Leann Blanchfield?
This team includes a talking Great Dane and rides around in the Mystery Machine.
Who are Mystery, Inc. or the Scooby Doo Gang?
TR's AI platform
What is Open Arena?
♫ Thank you for being a friend ♫
This project management and video-conferencing platform is central to collaboration at Thomson Reuters.
What is Microsoft Teams?
This Head of Primary Law and Royalties’ first job was as a Little League Baseball Umpire.
Who is Joel Hurwitz?
This group of superheroes includes a billionaire, super soldier, and a Norse God, and first assembled on screen in 2012.
Who are the Avengers?
This AI-powered assistant from Thomson Reuters helps tax, accounting, audit, and legal professionals with research, drafting, and document analysis.
What is CoCounsel?
"No soup for you!"
What is Seinfeld?
This term describes the blurred line between work and personal life that many remote workers experience.
What is Work-life balance?
Reuters was among the first news organizations to report on the construction of this famous wall.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The original roster of this superhero team included a billionaire, an Amazonian warrior, and an alien, and first appeared in the comics in 1960.
What is the Justice League?
This type of AI responds to your messages in real time, trying to sound like a human in a chat.
What is a Chatbot?
"Legendary"
What is How I Met Your Mother?
This TR policy allows employees to work from a different location for up to 8 weeks per calendar year.
What is Work From Anywhere?
This VP of Commentary aspired to be a full-time librarian, because she loved the thought of having the justifiable power to “shush” people all day.
Who is Jill Roisum?
This baseball team broke an 86-year championship drought by winning the 2004 World Series.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
This term describes the unintended and often unfair influence that can skew AI outputs due to imbalanced training data or flawed assumptions.
What is Bias?
“Identity theft is not a joke, [***]!”
What is The Office?
This platform is where we go to update our goals, request time off, complete mid-year and end-of-year reviews, and track our career development.
What is Workday?
This former CEO of West Publishing Company was known for leading the company to develop Westlaw.
Who is Dwight D. Opperman?
This team of astronauts flew the first successful mission to land on the Moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
This term refers to a system of interconnected nodes or units, often used in machine learning to model complex patterns and relationships.
“I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested.”
What is The Big Bang Theory?
This internal platform is the central hub for TR’s internal communications, resources, and communities.
What is Atrium?
In the 1850s, Reuters used a combination of telegraph cables and this fleet to deliver news and stock price information.
What are carrier pigeons?
This group of African American pilots served with distinction in WWII, flying missions over Europe despite facing segregation at home.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This experimental and internal language model was recently made available to TR employees for early testing in Open Arena.
What is Themis?
♫ Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name ♫
What is Cheers?
A platform to connect with colleagues at Thomson Reuters
What is Viva Engage?
This Senior Director of Product Management’s hobbies include watching otters at the Zoo and collecting and painting rocks.
Who is Lisa Mulrooney?
This 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team was the first American Olympic team to include active professional players from the NBA.
What is the Dream Team?
This term describes AI systems that can autonomously set goals, make decisions, and take actions without direct human instruction.
What is Agentic AI?
♫ Who's that girl? ♫
What is New Girl?
This HR policy was launched to support work-life balance and includes unique arrangements for work-from-home employees, hybrid employees, and in-office employees.
What is Flexible Work Policy or Flex My Way?
As a child, this Head of Specialty Content once gave his teacher his mom’s credit card because he had a crush on her and wanted to give her a gift.
Who is Chris Schultz?
This team, officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (aka DEVGRU), is tasked with performing the U.S. Military’s most complex, classified, and dangerous missions.
What is Seal Team Six?
This is a technique that enhances generative AI by retrieving relevant documents before generating a response, grounding outputs in authoritative sources.
What is Retrieval-augmented generation?
“[****], you got some 'splainin' to do!”
What is I Love Lucy?
These five phrases encapsulate our values at TR [200 points for each named phrase or value].
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