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Free News Wire Service from a Non-Profit Organization
Open Press Wire (OPW) is a free, non-profit news wire providing high-quality, original stories under Creative Commons. Our content empowers newsrooms to share and adapt reliable news without cost.
Who are we?
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Open Press Wire (OPW) is a non-profit organization that democratizes access to high-quality and timely news.
All our articles are published under the Creative Commons 4.0 BY license (click here for details), and we encourage all publications to either use these articles as-is, or to create derivative works without limitation - provided that the meaning of the article is not altered in an unreasonable way, and that attribution is given to OPW in the correct manner.
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Our stories are original works created by our team of engineers and journalists with the aid of software and AI models that make their work substantially more efficient.
We do not reprint or derive our stories from any other publication or news agency.
We focus on text-only news and do not currently provide images, video, or other types of content.
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Open Press Wire is intended to be a free, high-quality alternative to the expensive services that are offered to news publications by other news agencies.
Our primary language is English, and our stories cover the 53 countries in which English is spoken by a significant portion of the population as either a first or a second language.
Why is a new wire service necessary?
News publications have had their margins compressed for over 20 years, and they can no longer afford to pay exorbitant prices for content. Neither can they afford to do their own reporting from remote locations, due to cuts and layoffs plaguing our industry.
OPW solves this problem by providing free, high-quality, non-partisan content that newsrooms can use and reuse as they see fit, while adhering to high ethical standards. Our editorial standards are available here.
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Where can our content be found?
To explore and download free, high-quality news stories from Open Press Wire, click the button below. You’ll be redirected to our trusted partner’s website, where you can access our full library of Creative Commons-licensed newswire content.