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Development in Newspaper
Organization
One of the most important
developments in newspaper organization during the first part of the twentieth
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services. Wire service companies employed reporters, who covered stories all
over the world. Their news reports were sent to papers throughout the country by
telegraph. The papers paid an annual fee for this service. Wire services
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services are the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (PUI). You
will frequently find AP or UPI at the beginning of a news story.
Newspaper chains and mergers began to appear in the early 1900s. A chain
consists of two or more newspapers {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
A merger involves combining two or more papers into one. During the nineteenth
century many cities had more than one competitive independent paper. Today in
most cities there are only one or two newspapers, and {{U}} {{U}}
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Papers have combined {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Chains and
mergers have cut down production costs and brought the advantages of big
business methods to the newspaper industry.
A. to play an
important role in newspaper operations
B. was the growth of
telegraph services
C. and they usually enjoy great
prestige
D. they are usually operated by a single
owner
E. in order to survive under the pressure of rising
costs
F. owned by a single person or organization