Thomson Reuters Corporation

Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Thomson Reuters Q2 2021 earnings call. My name's Sue and I'm your event manager. During the presentation, your lines will remain on listen only. If you need assistance at any stage, please key style zero and an operator will be happy to assist you. I'd like to advise all parties the conference has been recorded for replay purposes. And now I'd like to hand over to Frank Golden, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Frank Golden Good morning and thank you for joining us today for our second quarter 2021 earnings call. I'm joined today by our CEO, Steve Hasker, and our CFO, Mike Eastwood, each of whom will take your questions following our presentation. To enable us to get to as many questions as possible, we would appreciate it if you would limit yourselves to one question each and one follow-up when we open the lines. Throughout today's presentation, when we compare performance period on period, we discuss revenue growth rates before currency, as well as on an organic basis. We believe this provides the best basis to measure the underlying performance of the business. Today's presentation contains forward-looking statements and non-IFRS financial measures. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of risks and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other risks discussed in reports and filings that we provide from time to time to regulatory agencies. You may access these documents on our website or by contacting our Investor Relations Department. Let me now turn it over to Steve Hasker.

Thank you, Frank, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Before I speak to our performance for the quarter, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the loss of our much-loved colleague and outstanding Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Danish Siddiqui. Danish was tragically killed while on an assignment in Afghanistan last month. The impact of his loss has been significant for all of us, especially his Reuters News colleagues, and we will continue to honour his memory.