Print syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, columns, or comic strips are made available to newspapers and magazines. There are several prominent syndication services operating across the globe such as The New York Times News Service, Tribune Media Services, Project Syndicate, North Star Writers Group, Guardian News Service, Family Features Editorial Syndicate, The India Today Group's Syndications Today, the Indian Times Syndication Service and Universal Press Syndicate, which provide news and lifestyle content to various other publications. They offer reprint rights and grant permissions to other parties for republishing content of which they own copyrights.
Comic-strip syndication
A U.S. comic strip syndicate will act as an agent for a cartoonist or comic strip creator, working to place the cartoon or strip 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 receive upwards of 5000 submissions a year, from which only two or three will be selected for representation. Notable syndicates include King Features Syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, United Media, the Washington Post Writers Group, Creators Syndicate, and Tribune Media Services. In 2005, cartoonist Joe Martin broke new ground when he quit Tribune Media Services, where his three comic strips, Mister Boffo, Willy 'n Ethel, and Cats with Hands, had all been syndicated for decades, and founded a new syndicate, Neatly Chiseled Features, to syndicate all of these and a new feature that he co-authored with Dr. Jon Carlson, On the Edge. This is the first new syndicate in twenty years.
References
Vaughn, Susan. "Career Make-Over; Looking on the Lighter Side of 'The Change'; Cartoonist wants to take 'Minnie Pauz' character into syndication.", The Los Angeles Times, 10 December 2000.
External links
- Aspects of the Mass Media. Short essay on the mass media; its history and development.
