Based on Reuters's past technological problems with the Web, I'd have to say this is more based on inability rather than principle.
Example: the Reuters Next project, a redesign that took several years before they abruptly killed it because of being unable "to meet delivery deadlines and stay within its budget":
Among the revelations of that fiasco was that Reuters Next was necessitated out of a failure to iterate on their web platform, such that "even putting in a hyperlink, one Reuters source said, was “a very complex issue.” Reuters had to put its blogs and opinion columns on a Wordpress platform so they could easily link to outside sources and embed videos."
Example: the Reuters Next project, a redesign that took several years before they abruptly killed it because of being unable "to meet delivery deadlines and stay within its budget":
http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/why-reuters-ditched-i...
Among the revelations of that fiasco was that Reuters Next was necessitated out of a failure to iterate on their web platform, such that "even putting in a hyperlink, one Reuters source said, was “a very complex issue.” Reuters had to put its blogs and opinion columns on a Wordpress platform so they could easily link to outside sources and embed videos."