press pool

English

Etymology

From press +‎ pool.

Noun

press pool (uncountable)

1. A group of news organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news. A video pool or pool feed is then distributed to members of the pool, who are free to edit it or use it as they see fit.

References

• Media and War, Imperial War Museum
• "New Media in Modern War", Philip Taylor, Professor of International Communications at the University of Leeds, UK, April 2003
• "WAR AND THE MEDIA", Philip M. Taylor, University of Leeds, 1995.
• "Censorship in the Gulf", David Benjamin, 1995.
• "Nothing's Shocking: Mainstream Media Manipulation and the Gulf War", David Hrycyszyn