Canadian Press

The Canadian Press ( PC ), Canadian Close English ( CP ), is a News agency Canadian founded in 1917 by an act of the Canadian Parliament with an aim of making it possible the Canadian newspapers to exchange information and on the topicality.

At the beginning, PC was simple a Distribution network which facilitated the circulation of the newspapers. At the time of the First World War, the leading committee meets for the first time to inform the Canadian public about the effort of war of the Canadian soldiers overseas.

With the arrival of the radio and Television, PC created a subsidiary company called Broadcast News to write texts specifically intended to the radio presenters and of television and to produce sound extracts and vidéos.

The French service of the Canadian press was established in 1951. Since this time, PC operates in the two official languages of Canada: the English and the French.

The Canadian Presse has offices through the Canada and with Washington. It also has a photographic service which publishes several hundreds of photographs each day which appear in the newspapers, in the Magazine S, the books and on line.

The agency tries to deliver Canadian reality and, for that, it employs 300 journalists who cover the national events and international.

The news of the Associated Press and APTN is also distributed by the means of the Canadian Press. In return, the AP transmits the Canadian news of the PC to the the United States.

PC is a Coopérative private managed and operated by its newspapers members. In addition to the topicality and information, the PC also publishes a guide of style for the journalists called CP Style , which was a long time an hybrid of journalistic conventions British and American, but which lately approached the British forms.

New Teleradiography (NTR) is a Québécois die of the Canadian press. In 2004, the PC signed a partnership with CCNMatthews, which offers a multimedia service to the network of the PC.

External bonds

  • Official site
  • CCNMatthews

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