Wire services have survived and grown by breaking news on the local, national and international scene. They have continually adopted new technology for their coverage. Beginning in the mid 1930’s with their coast-to-coast network of wire transmission over telephone lines, and continuing up to their present-day use of satellites and computers, the services have been in the forefront of dissemination of news on a round-the-clock basis. The Associated Press (AP) has introduced “electronic darkroom” that revolutionized photojournalistic coverage of news. United Press International (UPI) has computerized its transmission system and has introduced extensive color coverage on a local and national level. These modern systems will soon handle all phases of photojournalism via electronics- from shooting and printing to computerized editing and transmission.
Each wire service transmits hundreds of daily news photographs directly into the news photographs directly into the newspaper, magazine, and television newsrooms. They literally have “ a deadline every minute” somewhere in the world.
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