News Agency Shut Down
From Associated Press
ROME —
The Italian news agency ANSA has suspended its transmissions because of a labor dispute with its teletype operators over plans to have journalists transmit the news directly from computer terminals.
ANSA management said the agency shut down Wednesday night after teletype operators began transmitting only press releases and not news written by agency journalists.
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