Reuters and AP are bylinesfillerswire services that gather news and furnish it to many different papers

"A community needs news," said the British author Dame Rebecca West, "for the same reason that a man needs eyes. It has to see where it is going." For William Randolph Hearst, one of America’s most important newspaper publishers, news was "what someone wants to stop you [from] printing : all the rest is ads." Both idealistic and mercenary motives have contributed to the development of modern newspapers, which continue to attract millions of regular readers throughout the world despite stern competition from radio, television, and the Internet. Modern electronics, which put a television set in almost every home in the Western world, also revolutionized the newspaper printing process, allowing news articles and photographs to be transmitted and published simultaneously in many parts of the world.