As far as I remember it was a standard part of the contract with them, our corporate paid the wire services for content and they paid for our content, but corporate didn’t take that payment, the individual news people got that money.
None of us ever could figure out the rate at which they paid but every so many weeks each of us in the newsroom got a check from the wire services.
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