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1.5.3.2 2.名词解释

2.名词解释

新华社Xinhua News Agency

The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China(PRC)and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC.It is one of the two news agencies in the PRC,the other being the China News Service.Xinhua is an institution of the State Council of China.Xinhua reports directly to the Communist Party of China's Propaganda Department and Public Information Department.

路透社(英)Reuters Group Limited

Reuters Group Limited(pronounced:“roy-ters”)was a UK-based,Canadiancontrolled news service and former financialmarket data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters.News reporting once accounted for less than 10%of the company's income.Its main focus was on supplying the financialmarkets with information and trading products.These included market data,such as share prices and currency rates,research and analytics,as well as trading systems that allowed dealers to buy and sell such assets as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange.Among other services,the most notable was analysis of 40,000 companies,debt instruments,and 3 million economic series.Competitors included Bloomberg L.P.and Dow Jones Newswires.It is now part of Thomson Reuters.

美联社(美)Associated Press

The Associated Press(AP)is an American news agency.The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers,radio and television stations in the United States,which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists.Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers,paying a fee to use APmaterial without being contributive members of the cooperative.

《华尔街时报》TheWall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal(WSJ)is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones&Company,a division of News Corporation,in New York City,with Asian and European editions.As of 2007,It has a worldwide daily circulation ofmore than 2 million,with approximately 931,000 paying online subscribers.It was the largest-circulation newspaper in the United States until November 2003,when it was surpassed by USA Today.Itsmain rival is the Londonbased Financial Times,which also publishes several international editions.

The Journal newspaper primarily covers U.S.and international business and financial news and issues—the paper's name comes fromWall Street,the street in New York City that is the heart of the financial district.It has been printed continuously since being founded July 8,1889 by Charles Dow,Edward Jones,and Charles Bergstresser.The newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-three times,including 2007 prizes for backdated stock options.