I want the AP, Reuters and AFP to run my press release
Yesterday I got an email from one of our press release publishers asking me if we distribute the news releases that we publish on BigNews.biz to the Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France Presse (AFP). I sent him the following list so that he can forward his press releases.
Contacts info for wire service:
AP - info@ap.org
Reuters - http://tinyurl.com/74udk6
AFP - http://www.afp.com/afpcom/ar/afp/?pid=contact
Now for the reality check. This info is fairly useless. When submitting your release to the wires, consider that they get thousands of submissions each day. Unless your release is incredibly interesting and has national or international implications, they are probably not going to assign a reporter to write a story about it.
When releases from BigNews.biz have been picked up by the wires in the past, it is because they found our releases on the Web while doing research on a specific topic.
For more info on what the wires are looking for take a look at: http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact_pr.html