press association
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3.9
- noun
- /prɛs əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
- Literature
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asociación de prensa
- The national press association plays a crucial role in disseminating accurate news to media outlets.
I actually went to the White House Press Association dinner when Obama's president.
- I actually went to the White House Press Association dinner when Obama's president.
Examples
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In nineteenth-century New Zealand, this maneuvering was a matter of great irritation to E.T. Gillon as press association manager.
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When press associations came into being, a new journalism emerged.
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I actually went to the White House Press Association dinner when Obama's president.
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The press association, whether in New Zealand or the United States, had certain predictable effects.
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By the time he retired to take the editorship of a newspaper, he had made the press association the dominant force in New Zealand journalism.
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Finally, by their broad coverage, the press associations chipped away at provincialism.
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According to reports, press associations in France and other European countries are demanding Google pay for the displayed links associated with French newspapers in Internet searches.
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The point to be made is not that rules were sometimes broken after the advent of press associations, but that at least one source of political news relatively free of partisanship had become available to the newspaper-reading public in each country.
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In New Zealand, the inherent power of the press association was enhanced by its forceful first manager, Gillon, who some thought acted like a czar over news dissemination.
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His lasting imprint on New Zealand journalism is marvelously visible in 2,700 pages of the official letterbooks of the press association preserved in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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2.7
A company or group that finds and shares reports about events with the public
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2.5
An organization that gathers news and sends it to newspapers and TV stations
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3.9
A company that collects news and sends it to newspapers or TV stations
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5.6
A service that sends news to newspapers, television, and websites, or a news report sent by it
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4.0
A group that collects news and sends it to newspapers, TV, and websites
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organization that gathers and provides news' is directly and predictably built from 'press' (journalists/news media) + 'association' (a formal group). This straightforward compositional pattern (association of the press) is common across languages and would be readily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun press association comes from newspapers and reporters working together around the old printing press. They formed an association to collect and share stories, so today it means a group that gathers and sends 'news' to many papers.