Associated Press Newswire
The Associated Press was founded in America in 1841. The purpose of the founding of it was to combine the efforts of the five largest New York newspapers to bring about more news of the going on's in Europe. To this day Associated Press remains a large combined effort of some of the United States most influential news paper companies. People seek out news from the Associated Press from all over the world.
With the rise of the Internet back in the early nineteen nineties the Associate Press has struggled to maintain a standing in the news and information world. Their ability to make history over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has not helped their case, as their technology is not necessary since news and information is so readily available to the reporter and the everyday person.
Some ways in the late nineteenth century that the Associated Press made history was their coverage and ability to get exact quotes from overseas wars. In the early twentieth century, in 1914, the Associated Press was the first to come up with the, "Teletype," which was a technological advance that allowed the Associate Press to transmit directly to printers over telegraph wires. They were also the first to send photo's over telegraph wires.
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