A report on Associated Press and News agency

Reuters, Bonn 1988
Logo on the former AP building in New York City
The APTN Building in London

The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Although there are many news agencies around the world, three global news agencies, Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press (AP), and Reuters have offices in most countries of the world, cover all areas of information, and provide the majority of international news printed by the world's newspapers.

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United Press International

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News room of United Press in New York, 1933
Portrait photograph of E. W. Scripps, c. 1912
United Press International office in Washington D.C., circa 2005

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches.

Replica of Claude Chappe's optical telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany

Telegraphy

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Long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

Long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

Replica of Claude Chappe's optical telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany
Great Wall of China
Schematic of a Prussian optical telegraph (or semaphore) tower, c. 1835
19th-century demonstration of the semaphore
Cooke and Wheatstone's five-needle, six-wire telegraph (1837)
A Morse key (c. 1900)
An early Cooke and Wheatstone double-needle railway telegraph instrument at the National Railway Museum
A block signalling instrument as used in Britain in the 20th century
Australian troops using a Mance mk.V heliograph in the Western Desert in November 1940
US Forest Service lookout using a Colomb shutter type heliograph in 1912 at the end of a telephone line
A Baudot keyboard, 1884
A Creed Model 7 teleprinter, 1931
Creed paper tape reader at The National Museum of Computing
The first message is received by the Submarine Telegraph Company in London from Paris on the Foy–Breguet instrument in 1851. The equipment in the background is a Cooke and Wheatstone set for onward transmission.
The Eastern Telegraph Company network in 1901
Alexander Bain's facsimile machine, 1850
Marconi watching associates raising the kite (a "Levitor" by B.F.S. Baden-Powell ) used to lift the antenna at St. John's, Newfoundland, December 1901
Post Office Engineers inspect the Marconi Company's equipment at Flat Holm, May 1897
Western Union telegram (1930)
ITT Creed Model 23B teleprinter with telex dial-up facility
An illustration declaring that the submarine cable between England and France would bring those countries peace and goodwill

Telegraph lines continued to be an important means of distributing news feeds from news agencies by teleprinter machine until the rise of the internet in the 1990s.

News agencies were formed, such as the Associated Press, for the purpose of reporting news by telegraph.