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A comparative study of news services from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters shows that Bloomberg generally produces a higher volume of news items, while Thomson Reuters generally focuses more on analysis, according to research released this week by Burton-Taylor International Consulting. In the 11,000 items per day that Bloomberg averaged, more than 6,200 tended to be alerts, or single-line headlines, rather than full stories, whereas about 3,300 of Thomson Reuters' 7,600 daily items were alerts. The report also directly compares how the two vendors covered the same story over the same 24-hour period using Burton-Taylor's proprietary NewsMeter analysis, which provides an hour-by-hour breakdown of news coverage and whether items are press releases, alerts, full stories, updates, comments or analysis.