newswire

[ nooz-wahyuhr, nyooz- ]

noun

a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
a teletypewriter or other machine by which such information is transmitted or received.

Origin of newswire

This is exactly what newswire was built on – distributing well-written press releases to authoritative media outlets.
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A search on Lexis Nexis, which collates media mentions, reveals 5,493 uses of the term in newspapers, newswires, press releases, and blogs since it first came into being.
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A person claiming to be a TRN employee published a release on PR newswire under the pseudonym ‘Mary Donovan’.
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