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Glossary

A guide to useful jargon on Reuters Graphics.

  • AI2HTML
    • An open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts Illustrator graphics into html and css that can be easily embedded into graphics pages. Originally developed at the New York Times. We also use a fork that exports to Svelte components we call AI2Svelte.
  • Arc
    • The CMS the web team uses to manage reuters.com. It’s fed stories by Lynx.
  • ArchieML
    • A markup language originally developed at the New York Times we use to write structured data in Google docs.
  • AWS
    • Amazon Web Services. The servers we use to publish previews of our pages.
  • Connect
    • A Reuters platform where Reuters’ media clients can download photos, video, graphics and more.
  • CREEP
    • A django-based CMS that special reports and investigates stories use to publish specially designed pages.
  • Eikon
    • A platform we publish to for markets professionals, owned by Refinitiv.
  • Lynx
    • The newsroom’s CMS, which feeds stories to Arc (the website) and the wire.
  • Newplanner
    • A story budgeting tool (planner) at Reuters. It shows media clients what stories are coming. We make Newsplanner entries for planned stories to give clients a heads-up close to our publish date.
  • Refinitiv
    • A financial market data and infrastructure company previously owned by Thomson Reuters. We have a special relationship with them as a content provider. The platform they sell access to for markets professionals is called Eikon.
  • RNGS
    • The Reuters Graphics server. Where we publish graphics to the web.
  • SREP
    • Special Reports. Features and investigations that are usually published out of CREEP.
  • Zscaler
    • Basically, the VPN software Reuters uses. As of current writing you can work without zscaler turned on, but some sites like TR’s AWS management portal can only be accessed from the VPN.