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

Word History and Origins

Origin of wire service¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

With its liberating promise of easily uploaded user-generated content, these blogs became a sort of wireless wire service for breaking news and opinion.

From Washington Post

The wire service said it was unaware of Hamas presence in the building.

From Washington Post

For example, Kemp’s old newspaper, the Clayton News, founded in 1964, has been hit hard by the pandemic and now publishes mostly articles from state and national wire services.

From Washington Post

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

From The Daily Beast

That allows you to get at what most people were reading, which was the wire service stuff, the AP and the UPI stuff.

From The Daily Beast

The Associated Press, its most widely distributed wire service.

From The Daily Beast

Working for a wire service in Afghanistan is like being there for the brainstorming session, then publishing your notes.

From The Daily Beast

Romney asked whether anyone from the wire service “called us before they went with the story.”

From The Daily Beast

I called Mr. Dirksen and asked him for a glossy of the picture which the Associated Press sent out over the wire service.

From Project Gutenberg

Also, the wire service had turned out a gang of linemen and half a dozen operators.

From Project Gutenberg

The wire service car is the seventh car including the lead police vehicle.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• news agency
• news service
• press agency