Print syndication






Office of The New York Times' news syndicate, circa 1942


Print syndication distributes news articles, columns, comic strips and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites. The syndicates offer reprint rights and grant permissions to other parties for republishing content of which they own and/or represent copyrights. Other terms for the service include a newspaper syndicate, a press syndicate, and a feature syndicate.


The syndicate is an agency that offers features from notable journalists and authorities as well as reliable and established cartoonists. It fills a need among smaller weekly and daily newspapers for material that helps them compete with large urban papers, at a much lesser cost than if the client were to purchase the material themselves. Generally, syndicates sell their material to one client in each territory.


Typical syndicated features are advice columns (parenting, health, finance, gardening, cooking, etc.), humor columns, editorial opinion, critic's reviews, and gossip columns. Some syndicates specialize in one type of feature, such as comic strips.




Contents






  • 1 Comic strip syndication


  • 2 History


  • 3 Syndication services


  • 4 See also


  • 5 Further reading


  • 6 References


    • 6.1 Notes


    • 6.2 Sources consulted




  • 7 External links





Comic strip syndication


Main article: Comic strip syndication

A comic strip syndicate functions as an agent for cartoonists and comic strip creators, placing the cartoons and strips in as many newspapers as possible on behalf of the artist. In some cases, the work will be owned by the syndicate as opposed to the creator. A syndicate can annually receive thousands of submissions from which only two or three might be selected for representation.


The leading strip syndicates include Andrews McMeel Syndication, King Features Syndicate,[1] and Creators Syndicate, with the Tribune Content Agency and The Washington Post Writers Group also in the running.



History


An early version of syndication was practiced in the Journal of Occurrences, a series of newspaper articles published by an anonymous group of "patriots" in 1768–1769 in the New York Journal and Packet and other newspapers, chronicling the occupation of Boston by the British Army.


According to historian Elmo Scott Watson, true print syndication began in 1841 with a two-page supplement produced by New York Sun publisher Moses Yale Beach and sold to a score of newspapers in the U.S. northeast.[2]


By the end of the Civil War, three syndicates were on operation, selling news items and short fiction pieces. By 1881, Associated Press correspondent Henry Villard was self-syndicating material to the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Commercial, and the New York Herald. A few years later, the New York Sun's Charles A. Dana formed a syndicate to sell the short stories of Bret Harte and Henry James.


The first full-fledged American newspaper syndicate was the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, launched in 1884 by publisher S. S. McClure. It was the first successful company of its kind, turning the marketing of columns, book serials (by the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle), and eventually comic strips, into a large industry.[3]


Syndication really took off in 1896 when the competitors the New York World and the New York Journal began producing Sunday comic pages. The daily comic strip came into practice in 1907, revolutionizing and expanding the syndication business. Syndicates began providing client newspaper with proof sheets of black-and-white line art for the reproduction of strips."[4]


By 1984, 300 syndicates were distributing 10,000 features with combined sales of $100 million a year.[3]


With the 1960s advent of the underground press, associations like the Underground Press Syndicate, and later the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, worked together to syndicate material — including weekly comic strips — for each other's publications.



Syndication services


Prominent contemporary syndication services include:




  • Andrews McMeel Syndication (U.S.)

  • Family Features Editorial Syndicate (U.S.)


  • Guardian News Service (U.K.)


  • Hearst Entertainment & Syndication (U.S.)


  • News UK (U.K.)


  • The New York Times News Service (U.S.)


  • Project Syndicate (Czech Republic)


  • Syndications Today (India)


  • Telegraph Media Group (U.S.)


  • Tribune Content Agency (U.S.)


IFA-Amsterdam (International Feature Agency) provides news and lifestyle content to publications. Cagle Cartoons offers newspaper editorial cartoons and columns. 3DSyndication comprises syndication service from India, the India Today Group's Syndications Today, and Times Syndication Service of India.



See also



  • List of comic strip syndicates

  • List of syndicated columnists

  • Broadcast syndication

  • Web syndication

  • Patent insides

  • Direct market



Further reading



  • Blackbeard, Bill. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (Smithsonian Inst. Press/Harry Abrams, 1977)

  • Horn, Maurice. The World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House, 1976; Avon, 1982)

  • Robinson, Jerry. The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974)



References



Notes





  1. ^ Dwyer, Ed. "CULTURE: The Funny Papers: Newspapers may be in trouble, but the comic strip is alive and well — and flourishing online," Saturday Evening Post (November 7, 2016).


  2. ^ Watson, Elmo Scott. "CHAPTER VIII: Recent Developments in Syndicate History 1921-1935," History of Newspaper Syndicates. Archived at Stripper's Guide.


  3. ^ ab Time, 1977.


  4. ^ Scott, Randy. "The King Features Proof Sheet Collection". Insight. Fall 2009. p. 3.




Sources consulted




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  • Times Syndication Service Content licensing and syndication wing of The Times Group.



External links



  • 3DSyndication: Syndication Service from India

  • Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

  • Family Features Editorial Syndicate

  • Guardian News Service

  • IFA-Amsterdam (International Feature Agency)

  • News International Syndication

  • The New York Times News Service

  • NI Syndication

  • Times Syndication Service of India

  • Tribune Content Agency

  • Universal Press Syndicate




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