News Services and Syndicates
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Marschall, Rick. “King Features Marks a 75-Year Reign.” Media History Digest 10:2 (Fall-Winter 1990): 60-64.
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Nalbach, Alex. “Poisoned at the Source? Telegraphic News Services and Big Business in the Nineteenth Century.” Business History Review 77:4 (Winter 2003): 577-610.
Palmer, Michael B. International News Agencies: A History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Rantanen, Terhi. “Foreign Dependence and Domestic Monopoly: The European News Cartel and U.S. Associated Presses, 1861–1932.” Media History (Abingdon) 12 (April 2006): 19–35.
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Shmanske, Stephen. “News as a Public Good: Cooperative Ownership, Price Commitments and the Success of the Associated Press.” Business History Review 60, no.1 (Spring 1986): 55-80.
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Swindler, William F. “The AP Anti-trust Case in Historical Perspective.” Journalism Quarterly 23 (March 1946): 40-57.
UNESCO. News Agencies: Their Structure and Functions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1953.
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