Who disseminates the news to the various outlets?

irishproduce

I was reading today that Rory Best is to pay out damages to lawyers in the trial from a few years ago in Belfast. However This is not a thread about that.

What I am curious about is to know who circulates the news to the likes of RTE etc because I noticed that across multiple outlets, the story is word for word identical meaning it was circulated and the various outlets were instructed to publish/ consider it for publication?

See below

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/former-ireland-and-ulster-rugy-star-rory-best-to-pay-substantial-damages-to-lawyers-who-defended-paddy-jackson-in-high-profile-belfast-rape-trial-3748136

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/rory-best-to-pay-substantial-damages-to-paddy-jacksons-defence-lawyers-over-rape-trial-interview-41798005.html

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/rugby-union/rory-best-pay-substantial-damages-27347292

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0628/1307309-rory-best-defamation-court/

Genuinely interested to know who collates these stories and how common is it that a central outlet is sending stories to outlets for publishing.

I would be concerned that the narrative can be set centrally if they are all parroting some central distributor.

Associated Press (AP).

Gregor Samsa

Not every media outlet can afford to send a reporter to every court case, especially minor ones. So they reply on agencies who specialise in court reporting. The agency has a reporter in the court, the other media outlets buy the story to publish. It's a standard media practice and very commonplace. As for "the nutritive", you'll notice that such reports generally stick to the bare-bones facts - the who, the what, the when, of the case. They're not "instructed" to publish it - it's content that they purchase to publish. If they don't want to run the story, or they want to send their own reporter, they have those options.

CCC Nuacht is probably the biggest such service in Ireland:

http://cccnuacht.ie/

That particular report seems to be written by Alan Erwin, who (from a quick Google) appears to be a freelance court reporter. So perhaps he attended the court, and then sold the story on to the various media outlets. Only the Mirror seems to have credited him personally.

irishproduce

Thats a great reply, thanks a million for that. Makes sense