Newswires are a powerful real-time feed of company news and information, sent to key media outlets in your chosen geographical area. This provides immediate high visibility to hundreds of news releases issued each day from leading companies and organisations around the world.
Cision’s comprehensive portfolio of wire services offers you instant and simultaneous distribution on a targeted or global level depending on your needs.
Our wire services offer you full text and picture distribution, verbatim, directly into the editorial systems of the media, as well as various online databases and news sites.
To send a UK wire, please click here
UK Newswires
Choose to send a national, regional or picture newswire. Our service delivers your news through the Press Association (PA), and positions your news alongside PA content.
National Newswire
Distribution to key consumer and general media with coverage of all UK national newspapers, the top 150 regionals, television, radio, news agencies, news portals and websites via the Press Association (PA) - the UK & Ireland’s national news agency.
Regional Newswires
Distribution to regional newspapers, television and radio, who in turn feed down to their local representations. Options include:
- South East
- South West
- North East
- North West
- York's & Humber
- East Midlands
- West Midlands
- East Anglia
- London
- Wales
- Scotland
- Ireland
Picturewire
To support your national or regional text release, you may choose to send a relevant jpeg image on the picturewire. This will send your image directly to picture desks at print and broadcast media organisations and offers all the benefits of text wire distribution. It will be embedded within your release story and also placed on the PA’s Mediapoint website, where it will be fully downloadable by 30,000+ journalists.
Feature Wire
Distribute your feature and a supporting image to all UK national newspapers, the top 150 regionals, television, radio, news agencies, news portals & websites plus key trade and consumer publications.
International Newswires
From an international perspective, we offer a full global service to news organisations and agencies, specialised news services and financial information providers throughout the world. Choose from a range of international wires to enable you to target a particular country, a group of countries such as Europe or Scandinavia, or if your message is relevant worldwide, we have a number of global wire options.