Overview: Argues for proper recognition of the key role agencies have played in international news.Draws on over 40 years of unique archive research from France, Britain and the US.Provides a comprehensive histInternational news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, have long been ‘unsung heroes’ of the media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US, France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, a small number of agencies have fed their respective countries with international news reports. They informed governments, businesses, media and, indir
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