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Press association   /prɛs əsˌoʊsiˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Press association

noun
1.
An agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically.  Synonyms: news agency, news organisation, news organization, press agency, wire service.






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"Press association" Quotes from Famous Books



... had recently been chosen as check-weighman. The reporter, a lean and keen-faced young man, asked many questions—intelligent questions; incidentally he mentioned that he was the local correspondent of the great press association whose stories of the disaster were sent to every corner of the country. This seemed to Hal an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and he proceeded to tell this Mr. Graham about the census which some of the workers ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair

... news reports is in the hands of a highly trained staff of editors and correspondents. This staff is directed by Barry Faris, General News Manager, who has had more than a dozen years' experience in press association work and knows thoroughly every detail ...
— What's in the New York Evening Journal - America's Greatest Evening Newspaper • New York Evening Journal

... left Indianapolis for New York in May of 1882. Success followed her to the metropolis and she now has, 1885, the entire editorial management of the literary department of the American Press Association, and her work goes into more than fifty of the best weekly papers in ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... outdo their elders. There is another little woman that I want to come up here to the platform, Mrs. Chapman Catt. While she is blushing and getting ready, there is a delegation here from the Woman's National Press Association." Mesdames Lockwood, Gates, Cromwell and Emerson were introduced, and Miss Anthony remarked: "Our movement depends greatly on the press. The worst mistake any woman can make is to get crosswise with ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... the Woman's Club in the hall of the Continental Guards, with May Wright Sewall, representative from Indiana; gave seven addresses, in as many days, before schools and colleges and, by invitation of the Press Association, spoke in Agricultural Hall at the exposition and visited the headquarters of the different papers. The next day, by request of Commissioner Truman, she gave an address and held a reception at the New York headquarters. Her last appearance was at Tulane Hall under the auspices of the ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper



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