press agencies

Wire service organizations

Press agencies are organizations that gather news and distribute it to newspapers, broadcasters, and other media outlets.

Also called news agencies or wire services, they provide reporting that individual outlets couldn't afford to produce themselves—foreign correspondence, breaking news, photography.

Major examples include the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.

The story came over from the press agencies late last night.

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reporting · on the record · fact checking · foreign correspondents · bureau · wire services · news agencies · coverage · dispatch · headline · articles · editorial · bulletin · news cycle · publications · state media · media outlets · political reporting

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Opposites
news distribution model

press agencieslocal newspapers

Regional periodicals covering nearby events

citizen journalism · broadcast networks · blogs

information control

press agenciesMinistry of Truth

State falsification agency

news blackouts · samizdat · underground press

information source type

press agenciesprimary sources

Firsthand historical evidence

eyewitnesses · firsthand accounts · citizen journalism · raw footage · whistleblowers

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G