Wolffs Telegraphen-Bureau (English)

Japanese: Wolffs Telegraphen-Bureau（英語表記）WolffsTelegraphenBureau

...The Associated Press in the United States has consistently maintained its operation as a cooperative of newspaper companies, and many news agencies in Japan, including Kyodo News, follow this model.
[History and current situation]
Agence Havas (France, founded in 1835), Wolffs Telegraphen-Bureau (Germany, founded in 1849), and Reuters (England, founded in 1851), which are said to be the forefathers of modern news agencies, initially started out by distributing economic information to customers, and developed in advanced Europe with the development of modern communication technologies such as the telegraph and undersea cables, becoming known as the world's three major news agencies in the second half of the 19th century. These three news agencies concluded their first international agreement in 1856 and began exchanging news.

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Japanese:

…アメリカのAP通信社は一貫して新聞社の協同組織として経営を維持しており，日本の共同通信社その他これに範をとる通信社も多い。
［歴史と現状］
　近代的通信社の始祖ともいわれるアバスAgence Havas(フランス，1835創設)，ウォルフWolffs Telegraphen‐Bureau(ドイツ，1849創設)，ロイター(イギリス，1851創設)の各通信社は，当初は顧客へ経済情報を流すことから始まり，電信，海底ケーブルなどの近代的通信技術の開発にともなって，先進ヨーロッパで発展し，19世紀後半における世界の三大通信社といわれた。これら三つの通信社は1856年に第1回の国際協定を結んで，ニュースの交換を行うようになった。…

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