What is the website that newspapers get their stories from?

Question

does anyone know what the name of the website is that newspapers get their stories from. everyday we see the same stories printed in each major newspaper, they must be getting their stories from one source or some of their stories from one source. i want to know where this is so i can submit my stories to them? any help would be really appreciated....

Answer 1

They get it from the AP

Answer 2

The resource that all newspapers share, and can use whenever they don't have their own reports available, is not a website as such but a wire service. There are numerous major wire providers: the best known are Reuters and AP (Associated Press). Here in Australia we also have access to AAP (Australian Associated Press), in England they have PA (Press Association). There is also UPI and AFP (Agence France Presse), then there are other smaller firms that provide shared resources. (Subscription, naturally, is very expensive and individual readers couldn't afford it!)

These agencies also provide photos to go with the story.

Some newspapers give a credit to the wire agency at the start or the end of the story they've used, some don't. They don't have to. The newspaper is also free to use any part of the story and mix it up with their own reporter's work, or to take the whole thing and put their own reporter's name on the top. (That's what they pay their huge subscription for!) That's why some stories will be the same, word for word, in different papers - they've used the same wire agency.

All these wire agencies have their own websites but you will only read the basics on there, because obviously they want you to pay to get the actual stories. All of them have their own reporting staff, so they are actually like mini-newspapers, if you like. Jobs are scarce and you would have to be a well-established reporter or sub-editor before you could compete for one.

If you want to be a journalist, you'd be better to go through the established process of getting the right qualifications and starting at the bottom, i.e. your local paper, then moving on to bigger and (hopefully) better things. Good luck!

Answer 3

They are wire services. You may see AP, for Associated Press, UPI for United Press International, Reuters for the European news service, Knight Ridder, for that companies wire services.

Other newspapers reprint stories from other newspapers as well, from the Washington Post and New York Times are particularly reprinted.

The newspapers pay to use the service, and the newspapers are compensated when the material is used.

Generally speaking, if a story runs on Watergate or something, the other newspapers would run it with a statement saying "From the Washington Post" and the byline for whichever reporter wrote the story.  

They run it as written, rather than editing it to fit their own needs. Writers are generally rather protective of what they've written, and they get edited enough in their own newsroom, they wouldn't like it if it was being re-edited in East Jesus Nebraska.

Answer 4

Associated Press

Answer 5

They get it from some people called reporters...

Have you noticed that the stores might be the same but the pictures are usually not, and it is not the same word for word.  The newspapers have their own reporters on the scene.