Noun
wire service (plural wire services)
A service provided by a news agency that transmits news reports to subscribers electronically, e.g. by telegraph or the Internet. The subscribers are usually media outlets such as newspapers. Examples include the Associated Press and United Press International.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Bob Greene
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. Bob Greene
As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBTQ wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Source: Internet
A United Press correspondent was present, and recounted in a wire service report that: "if the audience of 500 engineers had shut their eyes they would have believed the jazz band was in the same room. Source: Internet
"AP remains unable to declare a winner based on the available information, as the results may still not be fully accurate and are still subject to a recount," read an advisory from the wire service on Tuesday. Source: Internet
Founded 62 years ago, NNPA also has a news service, run by the NNPA Foundation, a separate entity, chaired by Brian Townsend, publisher of the Precinct Reporter in San Bernardino, Calif. It is America's only Black newspaper wire service. Source: Internet