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United Press International (UPI) No longer a wire service

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 This also shows how woefully outdated this information is.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)[reply]

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financial focused agencies included?

what about afx? see [1] and [2]

That is Reuters. It's in the list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeGon (talk • contribs) 23:01, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How?

How do they get the news? How do you get a story in a newswire?--Gbleem 21:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They employ journalists who research the news stories. Jriddell (talk) 00:38, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is how newswires get the news

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)[reply]

Layout

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)[reply]

Answer to Layout

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.

Government Agencies?

What is the British government news agency mentioned in the article? Jriddell (talk) 00:38, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's the oldest news agency?

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)[reply]

Bit about Bangladesh?

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)[reply]

News wire != news agency

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)[reply]

I thought similarly. I think you are correct. I just wrote about whether a newswire was a technology or not. I think the word was used to mean that in the past. Maybe it still should be used that way now. In the explanation I gave, I tried to distinguish between the delivery mechanism and the content generator. It would make the most sense to describe the newswire as the technology i.e. the delivery mechanism, and the news agency as the source of content, the creator. The fundamental point is to emphasize that distribution channels, often called CDN's now, need content. When describing news media content, it is important to distinguish how that content is human generated, at great effort and expense. It isn't just "algorithmic", as the algorithms need input! So, despite what I said earlier, I think you're right.

For such an important subject as "news agency", this article really should be better than a mere stub. It has lots of good examples, but not many words. Unfortunately, it will be a contentious topic, and I guess that's why it has lain fallow for so long. Yes, that's melodramatic, but given the controversy regarding news and information dissemination, ethics, independent news media, it is important. --FeralOink (talk) 03:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Major news agencies <> List of news agencies

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Let's remove the part about the commercial newswires

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)[reply]

+1 for this. The Columbian Journalism Librarian (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"gathers news reports" from where?

"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)[reply]

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Semi Protact option on edit

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 15:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To contact with news agency

I want to contact me with our news agency because i start my own social media channel (news network official) on YouTube or instagram. So that's why I want to change our locality by giving a excited and good news to others 103.119.197.226 (talk) 14:57, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]