FOCUS: NEWS SERVICES - Web vs Wire. For up-to-the-second information, the web is giving traditional news services a run for their money. Mary Cowlett reports

While traditional news agencies such as Reuters and the Press Association continue to deliver breaking stories directly into the UK’s newsrooms over the wire, many web-based news operations have entered the on-line arena to offer a competing service.

by MARY COWLETT

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