Print syndication distributes news articles, columns

Column (newspaper)

A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. Columns are written by columnists.What differentiates a column from other forms of journalism is that it meets each of the following criteria:...

, comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

s and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites. They offer reprint rights and grant permissions to other parties for republishing content of which they own/represent copyrights.

Prominent national and international syndication services include Family Features Editorial Syndicate, Guardian News Service, News International Syndication, The New York Times News Service

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, North Star Writers Group

North Star Writers Group

North Star Writers Group is a newspaper syndicate and editorial services firm launched in December 2005. It is based in Byron Center, MI. The syndicate's material is carried by more than 50 newspapers across the United States.- History :...

, Telegraph Media Group

Telegraph Media Group

The Telegraph Media Group is the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group in July 2004, after months of intense bidding and lawsuits, from Hollinger Inc...

, Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company.The company has two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products"...

 and Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate is an international not-for-profit newspaper syndicate and association of newspapers. It distributes commentaries and analysis by experts, activists, Nobel laureates, statesmen, economists, political thinkers, business leaders and academics to its member publications, and...

. Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate, a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, is the world's largest independent press syndicate. It distributes lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird...

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

Syndications Today

Syndications Today is the content syndication division of the India Today Group, a media conglomerate in the Indiam sub-continent, which manages and grants reprint and reuse rights of content produced in terms of news, articles, features, podcasts, and videos from publications such as India Today,...

 and Times Syndication Service of India.

Comic strip syndication

A comic strip syndicate functions as an agent for cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

s 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 Creators Syndicate

Creators Syndicate

Creators Syndicate is an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers. It was founded in 1987 by Richard S. Newcombe, and is based in Los Angeles. Creators was one of the first syndicates to allow its clients to maintain creative control of their material...

, King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

, NI Syndication, United Media

United Media

United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...

 and the Washington Post Writers Group.

See also

• List of comic strip syndicates
• List of syndicated columnists
• Web syndication
  Web syndication
  Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...
  
  

Further reading

• Blackbeard, Bill. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (1977) Smithsonian Inst. Press
  Smithsonian Institution
  The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
  
  /Harry Abrams
• Horn, Maurice. The World Encyclopedia of Comics (1976) Chelsea House, (1982) Avon
  Avon (publishers)
  Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher. As of 2010, it is an imprint of HarperCollins, publishing primarily romance novels.-History:...
  
  
• Robinson, Jerry. The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art (1974) G.P. Putnam's Sons

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 Media Services
• Universal Press Syndicate