There is nothing inherently wrong with choosing to release reports that you own or have exclusive license to in any way you want, tiered or not. I pay for Show

There is nothing inherently wrong with choosing to release reports that you own or have exclusive license to in any way you want, tiered or not. I pay for Showtime, and therefore I get to see new Homeland episodes before people downloading from free torrent sites get to. I have chosen to pay; they have chosen not to pay. Same thing here. A significant chunk of the money Reuters pays for the reports, which they recoup through subscriptions, winds up going to pay for the production of the reports anyway. The only thing that surprises me about this is how much money they are likely leaving on the table. They should let people bid for early access.