WordNet
n. an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically [syn: news agency, press agency, wire service, news organization, news organisation]
Wikipedia
The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
PA is part of PA Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers. The biggest shareholders are Associated Newspaper Holdings Limited, News International plc, Trinity Mirror plc and United Business Media plc. The group also encompasses Globelynx, which provides TV-ready remotely monitored camera systems for corporate clients to connect with TV news broadcasters in the UK and worldwide; TNR, a specialist communications consultancy; and Sticky Content, the UK's leading digital copywriting and content strategy agency.
The Agency delivers a continuous feed of content via a national newswire, including text, images, video and data into newsrooms around the country. This ranges from international sports data and entertainment guides, to TV listings and archived images.
For instance, PA Images has more than 12 million photographs available online and around 10 million in physical archives dating back 150 years.
PA has continually evolved to provide businesses, brands and public sector organisations with multimedia content. PA’s products and services span across sports data APIs, hosted live blogs, social media content, media training, page production services and TV listings.
PA’s customers are varied, consisting of non-media customers, business brands, commercial companies, Government and not-for-profit organisations.
Usage examples of "press association".
Part of its work consisted of picking up press association messages and news broadcasts and distributing a digest of them to government officials.
It wasn't officially published-just mimeographed and distributed by FAPA, the Fantasy Amateur Press Association-but it was so caustic and critical of certain fans that it became an underground classic.
He would not even make the yearly appearance at the Athens Foreign Press Association, where, in an orchestrated setting, he could have selected in advance which questions to answer.
I'll get one of our people to put it out to the Press Association.
I think I'll go over to the Press Association, go through the clippings on the Hawthornes.
Talk of the meeting it was at Wincanton today, soon as the Press Association chaps heard about it.
I dialed the London number of the Press Association and asked for the racing section.
It was handed out by a group called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in honor of the year's best work in motion pictures.
Driving through the village, we passed half a dozen photographers and a bunch of Azeris who claimed to be their country's Press Association.