Wire services
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Wire services
are urgently
working to
balance their
changing role
serving both
publishers and
end consumers
with news and,
increasingly,
multimedia.
08/2005
For decades wire services mainly concentrated
on providing newspapers with text and images
for their print editions. However, the increasing
use of the Internet is radically altering the
expectations of the modern news consumer,
who has an increasing appetite for more multiple-
media content, especially streaming video.
To meet these demands, many news agencies
worldwide are rapidly expanding the way they
collect and distribute their content.
