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NAPA What We Do Page Explains The Legitimate Role Of Independent Press Agencies

This archived screenshot preserves the National Association of Press Agencies “What we do” page, explaining the range of services offered by UK press agencies, including news reporting, feature writing, photography, public relations support and services tailored to broadcasters. The item is significant because it provides industry context for understanding CEN’s role as a legitimate agency within the British media supply chain, rather than the shadowy or suspicious operation implied by BuzzFeed’s framing. The page makes clear that agency work can involve words, pictures, specialist reporting, publicity handling, media relations and direct support for people or organisations with a story to tell. The screenshot matters in the CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because BuzzFeed appeared to misunderstand or misrepresent the normal business of agency journalism, where material is gathered by agencies and then supplied to publishers that may use, rewrite, repackage or publish it under their own brand. Read alongside the wider NAPA and agency-attribution material, this item helps document that CEN operated within an established professional agency ecosystem with recognised practices, services and standards.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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