How do news wire services work?
How do news wire services, like the Associated Press, or Reuters, work? In my understanding, news stories get written and published by the wire service, based on the materials they get from their correspondents from around the world. I guess that if a newspaper wants to use any of the stories or pictures on the wire service, it has to pay some kind of a fee, right? Can the client, once he has paid the fee, take any story he likes from the wire service, and publish it on his own website? Can he edit it? I was wondering about this stuff for a while now…
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