The student was not a citizen journalist or a blogger, but a stringer who was asked to report on the event for a wire service.
When I saw a wire service photo several hours later of Time's cover, a standard news shot of Diana, I knew our issue would crush theirs on the newsstand.
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The proximity of kisha club members to the people they cover creates chummy relationships that make it hard for reporters to write critical stories, says Akira Uozumi, a freelance reporter who worked for 20 years at Kyodo News, a wire service and kisha-club regular.
Meanwhile, a chum of mine working for a French wire service has a problem.
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The telegraph allowed a rudimentary wire service, relaying stories between cities at a faster pace.
He started a newspaper wire service, the Capitol News Bureau, distributing stories to eighty papers.
This would be a boon to game developers, who could sell subscriptions for scenario updates, a gaming wire service of sorts.
On an out-of-town trip Carlsbad state senator Joseph Gant Jr. read a wire- service story -- by chance -- about the Lyons fiasco and got on the telephone to other Carlsbad influentials.
People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.
Cash could be put into the service using a credit card, bank wire, postal money order or other money transfer service.
Mikkal Herberg, a former oil executive, told the wire service that Iran today offers rates of return of between 6-10 percent to foreign investors.
At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.
The original story came from Bloomberg, and the wire service clearly overplayed their hand in an effort to create a scoop.
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The wire service said the investigation into its records appears related to an AP story about a thwarted terrorist plot in Yemen to bomb an airplane bound for the United States.
Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York have issued a criminal complaint against Ceglia for mail and wire fraud, accusing him of using the U.S. Postal Service to fraudulently sue Facebook.
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