wire service
13
3.9
- noun
- /ˈwaɪər ˈsɜːrvɪs/
- Literature
:
agencia de noticias
- He's been offered a job as a full-time freelance reporter for an international wire service starting Dec. 1.
- newspapers and wire services
- wire services to supply news
- wire service story
Look at the sort of standard news reporting wire services, AP and Reuters.
- Look at the sort of standard news reporting wire services, AP and Reuters.
Examples
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The wire services dispatch the picture and a short accompanying story around the world.
Fiction book (1997) -
Soon the wire services picked up on the story.
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Well, it went out over the wire services.
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We should be on the wire services.
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Every wire service in the country's asking the same question.
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The New York Times carried the initial announcement in an ordinary wire service story, and an abbreviated one at that.
Academic text (2006) -
Indeed, as it turned out, wire services all over the country had picked up the story about the twice-stolen statues.
Fiction book (1998) -
Within this framework, newspapers became commercial and, in some cases, corporate enterprises, with wire services expanding to meet the needs of newspapers nationwide.
Academic text (1991) -
International media, relying heavily on Agence France-Presse and Associated Press wire services, have shown little interest in France's delinquency problem.
Academic text (2011) -
The latest news was quickly reported by the wire service to multiple outlets.
Synonyms
69
2.7
A company or group that finds and shares reports about events with the public
29
2.5
An organization that gathers news and sends it to newspapers and TV stations
3
5.6
A service that sends news to newspapers, television, and websites, or a news report sent by it
1
4.0
A group that collects news and sends it to newspapers, TV, and websites
1
3.9
An organization that gathers and sends news to newspapers and other media
How Wide
- Literature
9
5.8
60
3.2
- Literature
13
3.9
127
3.2
62
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning can be partially inferred from 'wire' (telegraph/cable message) + 'service' (an organization providing a function) so a learner could guess it denotes a service that sends information via wires — i.e. news distribution. However, the specialized journalistic sense ‘news agency’ and the somewhat archaic/sectoral use of 'wire' are not fully predictable for an average B1 learner, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Wire service comes from the days when reporters sent stories over a wire called the telegraph line to a central service that then passed the news to many newspapers. That's why today wire service means a 'news agency' that gathers and sends reports to papers and broadcasters.