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Thomson Reuters is coming to America! OK, so the media company is already well-established in the United States, but it announced the creation of Reuters America, which is aimed at publishers and broadcasters with the goal of providing them with news, information, and services.

Tribune Co. is already signed on as a Reuters America customer, and it will incorporate news, photos, digital content, graphics, and online video into its newspapers (including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times) and publishing and broadcasting Web sites.

Content providers signed on to distribute content via Reuters America include: The Wrap News, Sports Direct, The SportsXchange, US PRESSWIRE, SB Nation, and Examiner.com.

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Reuters will ramp up its efforts in the United States, as Thomson Reuters president of media Chris Ahearn told Beet.TV founder and CEO Andy Plesser news providers are not “satisfying the needs” of the country’s publishers and broadcasters.

Ahearn also said during the interview at Monaco Media Forum that facts and solid reporting are not commodities and will increase in value for his company and its customers, adding that India and China represent two more growth markets for Thomson Reuters.

“Now more than every, it is important for our media professionals to look themselves in the mirror and ask the tough questions.”

This is how Lorraine Branham, Dean of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, began today’s Mirror Awards luncheon in New York. The room was packed with “media professionals,” and many SU alum, like event emcee Contessa Brewer of MSNBC and Morning Joe EP Chris Licht, who was at our table and served as a judge.

The categories were split into “digital” and “traditional” media, prompting Chris Ahearn, a presenter, to say, “I look forward to the day when we don’t have to make that distinction.” Here are all the winners.

Arianna Huffington was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and described her reason for creating The Huffington Post and the future of media. “Are people going to keep trying to reinvent the past or are they going to embrace the future?” she asked.

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