News organizations like the Associated Press and Reuters supply stories, photos, and graphics to newspapers worldwide. They have reporters covering events that local reporters can’t, making them the “official” source for most newspapers. Newspapers and TV stations pay a subscription fee to have articles and photos sent to them.
You may have heard of the Associated Press, Scripps-Howard or Reuters, but what are these organizations really? They are examples of a news network or a news organization. The term originated in the days of the telegraph, when suddenly newspapers across the country could communicate news at previously unknown speeds! It refers to telegraph wires and is still part of newspaper slang today.
A news thread is made up of editors and reporters covering stories for that particular company. Unlike a newspaper, a cable organization doesn’t have its own product. There is no Associated Press newspaper, for example. However, nearly all newspapers around the world are members of the Associated Press. The AP, like Reuters and other news agencies, supplies stories, photographs and graphics to newspapers.
A big advantage of organizations like the AP is that they have reporters covering events that local reporters can’t. Most newspapers couldn’t afford to send a reporter overseas to cover a war or an economic summit, but the AP has employees all over the place who do just that. For most newspapers, the news thread is the “official” source. Nothing is “official” until AP or another thread picks up the story.
Most newspapers have satellite or Internet access, which is how a news thread delivers its stories. The wire reporter covers the event and writes about it, and then the story is filed and edited. It is then sent electronically to member newspapers, who can choose whether or not to print the story.
The process also works in reverse. A reporter from a local newspaper covers an interesting event and submits it to AP, where the story is picked up and eventually sent to the national network. Local television stations broadcast the news in much the same way. Since a reporter works for her organization and not for a particular newspaper, coverage of him is considered more impartial than that of a local reporter.
Other PR firms that publish stories for one sector of the population, such as business, may form a syndicate of journalists to write business stories about a particular sector and submit them to newspapers and television stations. This is another example of a newscast.
Newspapers and television stations pay a subscription fee to have articles and photographs sent to them by the news. These stories cover every spectrum: news, the economy, lifestyle features, cuisine, and so on. Publishers rely heavily on these sources to fill in the holes on a slow day for local news, as well as national stories they might not otherwise have access to.
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