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UPI is no longer a wire service and hasn't offered wire services for almost 10 years. They should be removed from this article. This also shows how woefully outdated this information is. Suggest a major rewrite. TheNewsCycle ( talk) 13:10, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
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what about afx? see [1] and [2]
How do they get the news? How do you get a story in a newswire?-- Gbleem 21:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes companies submit press releases to newswire services e.g. announcements about earnings, or changes in management.
The sort of newswires that Jriddell refers to are the majority of news media sources, though. They employ journalists, photographers, researchers, editors and telecomm staff so that their news reports are distributed electronically by "wire" or satellite or modem. They were doing this for decades before the internet. A "newswire" is a term for a service, rather than technology.
The Associated Press is a good example. There isn't an "Associated Press" newspaper. But there is a website, and before that, newspapers and media outlets would purchase the feed to their news reporting services. Newspapers and media outlets continue to do that now. -- FeralOink ( talk) 03:22, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
I second the above question, and add my own.
What does a newswire look like? I assume the header includes the date and time (UTC or the bureau HQ's time zone?), a release number or something, a headline name, and perhaps references to photos/maps/diagrams or supplemental files that these days might be "attachments" but in times past might have come over a wirephoto system. Then, there would be some kind of indicator as to the end of different sections of a single release, and an indicator as to the end of the release. Is it possible for someone to post an image of a printed-out release, and to explain the different marks and references? GBC 17:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for but hopefully I can help. I work for a small news agency that supplies stories to the national press in Scotland. This is an example of the format in which stories are sent from us to the papers using a system called Newslink.
This is what is sent from us to the papers (as an example):
NEWSLINK MBX 8500800W015.001 01JAN99 09:33/13:53 GMT
FROM: 19082112 - NEWS AGENCY NAME
TO: 13082154
ATTN: headline
COPY FROM: NEWS AGENCY NAME, ADDRESS, Tel: 01234567890.
Filed by AN OTHER (01234 567890)
PICTURES FROM XYZ (01234567890)
INTRO paragraph starts here and gives the main thrust of the story.
Subsequent paragraphs.
Ends...
Most of this is self explanatory. The line beginning To: is a reference number or name of a paper/radio station/broadcaster that we are sending to. The line starting ATTN: is known as the "catchline" and is a word or phrase (of eight letters or less usually, with no spaces) that gives an idea of the story content.
After that comes the name of the agency it is sent from (which shows who needs paid), the name of the journalist who wrote the piece (so they know who to credit with a byline) and any other information, for example where pictures are available from.
After that is the main body of text of the story.
News copy always finishes with the words "Ends..." to let newsdesks know that the piece is finished.
Whether or not this is the same format used across the world or just in our system (which is used across UK papers) I don't know.
What is the British government news agency mentioned in the article? Jriddell ( talk) 00:38, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
In Columbia Encyclopedia it says: "As early as the 1820s a news agency, the Association of Morning Newspapers, was formed in New York City to gather incoming reports from Europe". Doesn't the Wikipedia community agree Association of Morning Newspapers was a news agency? Spadarabdon ( talk) 13:50, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
What's with the orphaned sentence about Bangladesh at the bottom of the article? Is it a reference? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.102.158.15 ( talk) 05:10, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
News wire shouldn't redirect to here. A news agency is a company or association, while a news wire is a communications technology, of which there is no mention here. - 174.46.204.210 ( talk) 19:05, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Under "Major news agencies" more and more very small, new and often nearly unknown agencies are listed. That's ok in my eyes as you don't really know how important they are for their region. BUT... the title "Major News Agencies" won't fit anymore soon.
Also there is a collision with the "List of news agencies" under "See also".
Ideas how this could be made better? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeGon ( talk • contribs) 22:59, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
The list needs to be culled. There appears to be some spam, such as American Press Association as well as others listed as international or major that no longer apply, such as UPI, which doesn't even offer a newswire anymore The Columbian Journalism Librarian ( talk) 16:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Because they are not news agencies. A news agency in the western democratic sense of journalism is independent from the influence of governments and businesses. That trust is the asset they sell. It's the opposite of a commercial newswire service. We should remove that part or at least distinguish clearly between news agencies and commercial newswire services. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeGon ( talk • contribs) 23:07, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
+1 for this.
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16:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
"A news agency ... gathers news reports and sells them ...." Where does it gather them from? Who actually produces the reports that agencies then gather? Nurg ( talk) 09:36, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
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