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

The organization, which represents more than 100 journalists from trade publications, newspapers, wire services and TV broadcast outlets, hasn’t made a recommendation to its members on whether or not to sign.

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Some of the “specials,” as we wire service correspondents called the major media then, reported that we were fired on.

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The explosion damaged the practice’s office space, where it conducts consultations with patients, but left the IVF lab and the stored embryos there unharmed, Abdallah told the wire service.

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Authorities told the wire service that Reyes had led the unit’s regional team for eight years and carried out more than 400 operations.

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District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled on Tuesday that the wire service should be granted access to the Oval Office and Air Force One whenever other news organizations are allowed into those limited spaces.

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Related Words

• news agency 
• news service 
• press agency