Fast and reliable on deadly attack on Togo soccer players

Reuters was the news source to trust when Angolan rebels attacked the Togo soccer team bus on its way to the Africa cup on Jan 8, killing two people. The first break on the story came from Togo officials and Reuters was quick to flash the news. As the story developed through the night and into the weekend there were many unconfirmed and usually unsourced reports that team members had died and that the team had pulled out. Reuters reporting was confirmed, with the result that unlike other news organisations we never had to backtrack or reverse. Subscribers like Sky news waited for the Reuters confirmation before they went with developments like the first death. Reuters was fast to analyse what lay behind the attack by separatist rebels and what broader lessons were to be drawn.