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wire service

noun

  1. a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.


wire service

noun

  1. an agency supplying news, etc, to newspapers, radio and television stations, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wire service1

First recorded in 1940–45
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The wire service lost access to certain Trump events after the administration took offense at the outlet's guidance on reporting on the Gulf of Mexico.

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This week, the White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from the Oval Office this week because the wire service kept Gulf of Mexico in its popular style guide.

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“We didn’t think he was alive at first,” a resident named Tristan told OnSceneTV, a breaking news wire service.

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As a prominent wire service, The A.P. makes its content available to subscribers around the world.

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Upon Elliot’s death, Carr told The Times’ wire services that she had died in her sleep at age 33 and gave no cause of death.

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