U.S. Newswire

U.S. Newswire

U.S. Newswire is a U.S. national news release wire service established in 1986 and distributes media materials on behalf of a variety of customers particularly the U.S. government and non-profit agencies.

U.S. Newswire is based in Washington DC and was acquired from Medialink by PR Newswire on October 1 2006.

History

* 1986 - Founded
* 1989 - Lexis-Nexis begins archiving all U.S. Newswire releases
* 1993 - First news release wire service to distribute news for the White House Press Office
* 1995 - Launches web site
* 1999 - Merges with Medialink
* 2000 - AOL publishes U.S. Newswire feed
* 2001 - The White House Press Office under President George W. Bush start publishing on U.S. Newswire
* 2001 - Yahoo! News publishes U.S. Newswire feed
* 2002 - Launches full service photography service
* 2003 - Google News publishes U.S. Newswire feed
* 2004 - MSNBC.com publishes U.S. Newswire feed
* 2005 - News Unfiltered blog launched
* 2006 - Acquired by PR Newswire
* 2007 - U.S. Newswire becomes [http://www.prnewswire.com/publicinterest/ PR Newswire Public Interest Services]
* 2008 - Named Official Newswire for 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions

External links

* [http://www.usnewswire.com/ U.S. Newswire] official site
* [http://www.prnewswire.com/publicinterest/ U.S. Newswire News Feed]
* [http://rss.prnewswire.com/subject/pol/ U.S. Newswire RSS News Feed]
* [http://www.prnewswire.com/ PR Newswire]


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