Talk:News agency

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Bit about Bangladesh? WTF?

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]

financial focused agencies included?

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

How?

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

How?

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

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]