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Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service

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Supplemental news services had great growth during 1960s and 1970s and by the end of the 1970s the Times-Post News Service had upwards of 200 clients. This was an era where newspapers were very profitable and were the key news source for most people. The growth of supplemental news sources
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Each newspaper had 50 percent ownership of the entity. Its stated emphasis was to provide coverage of international news with dispatches from the two papers, and the same for national news from Washington, D.C., in order to augment the coverage of more regionally-focused clients such as
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By 1989 the service had 650 clients in the United States and around the world, with a total circulation of some 110 million. The number of clients was the most of any of the newspaper-based news services in the United States and ahead of rival supplemental news services
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and existed from 1962 to 2009. It served to provide news coverage to its clients, which numbered over 600, and to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations. Rather than being a full-fledged wire service such as the
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said, "As the news business and our newsrooms have evolved, the ways in which the organizations cover and distribute the news have changed. We felt at this time it made sense for us to proceed separately." Publisher
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In addition to its regular service, Times–Post also offered a smaller service for a lesser price. The pair also started an all-sports service in 1984, which gained around 175 clients.
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37 but outweighing that number when combined. Subscribing clients also benefited from any investigative reporting that the two papers were doing, such as the
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The Times-Post News Service was beneficial to many newspapers who had little or no national or international coverage. Indeed, some of its clients, such as
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The sales forces of the two papers were sent to sign up clients; at first there were about 25 newspapers using the service. Rex Barley, manager of the
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said "after enjoying many years of great success together, we've agreed the time has come to move in separate directions."
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The joint service was formed in 1962 and was the product of discussions between the two newspapers' well-known publishers,
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An additional benefit of the service to the two sponsoring papers was that it enhanced the reputation and lustre of the
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with 350 as the next two closest. The service is said to have sent out 125 stories each day comprising 100,000 words.
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The service ended in 2009 when both partners decided to move in a different direction. Board vice chair
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wrote, "One of the oldest corporate marriages in the newspaper business ended in divorce ." The
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was director of the service. Over time, the service also incorporated coverage by
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The Future of News: Television, Newspapers, Wire Services, Newsmagazines
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in the United States that was created as a partnership between the
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economic difficulties in general for the newspaper industry
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Among the columns syndicated by the service were ones by
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domestic and foreign news coverage, columns, syndication
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Bill Mitchell; William G. Connolly (August 10, 2002).
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Index

News agency
Otis Chandler
Philip Graham
United States
Leonard Downie Jr.
Parent
Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post
news agency
Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post
Associated Press
Reuters
Otis Chandler
Philip Graham
New York Times
The Arizona Republic
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
New York World Journal Tribune
Watergate scandal
Jack Smith
Leonard Downie Jr.
Newsday
The Baltimore Sun
Hartford Courant
Pam Robinson
Robinson Prize
New York Times News Service
Scripps Howard News Service
United Press International

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