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PR Newswire

American distributor of press releases
Class type of: PR Platform Q376399

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
business, information resource[3]
Official website
www.prnewswire.com[14]

Status and dates

Inception
March 8, 1954[8]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2021[9]

Location

Headquarters location
Manhattan[5]
Country
United States[2]
Location of formation
Manhattan[10]

Industry and activity

Industry
press release[7]
Product or material produced
press release[15]

People

Founder
Herb Muschel[4]

Relations

Parent organization or unit
Western Union, UBM Information Ltd., Cision[11][12][13]
More facts +4
Subclass of
PR Platform[6]
P14750
DB09-416B-AFA5-ABA2-B575[22]
Search formatter URL
www.prnewswire.com, www.prnewswire.com[16][17]
Social media followers
126k (114k–127k, n=4)[18][19][20][21]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 9
AlternativeTo software ID
prnewswire
Crunchbase organization ID
pr-newswire
Described at URL
www.fundinguniverse.com
Domain name
prnewswire.com
Freebase ID
/m/034k9z
Google News publication ID
CAAiECjUppnOdFIijXjgLaKpQrUqFAgKIhAo1KaZznRSIo144C2iqUK1, CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbkJ5Ym1WM2MzZHBjbVV1WTI5dEtBQVAB
Media Bias/Fact Check ID
pr-newswire
Quora topic ID
PR-Newswire
X (Twitter) username
PRNewswire

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🔗 Connections
Parent organization or unit 3
Western Union, Cision, UBM Information Ltd.
Country 1
United States
Examples 1
PR Platform
Headquarters location 1
Manhattan
Instance of 1
business
Location of formation 1
Manhattan
Product or material produced 1
press release
Subclass of 1
PR Platform
← Child organization or unit 1
Cision
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Summary

PR Newswire is a business[1].

Body

Operations

Parent organizations include Western Union[11], a business[23], in United States[24], founded in 1851[25], headquartered in Greenwood Village[26]; UBM plc[12], a business[27], in United Kingdom[28], founded in 1918[29], headquartered in London[30]; and Cision[13], a business[31], in Sweden[32], founded in 1867[33], headquartered in Chicago[34].

Related Entities

business United States Western Union

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Search formatter URL → https://www.prnewswire.com/search/all/?keyword=$1, https://www.prnewswire.com/search/news/?keyword=$1
    AlternativeTo software ID → prnewswire
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Search formatter URL: https://www.prnewswire.com/search/news/?keyword=$1"
  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at URL → http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/pr-newswire
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:1||1 */ Official website: https://www.prnewswire.com/, Cleanup: deprecate/remove blocklisted URL claims ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  3. 11w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → DB09-416B-AFA5-ABA2-B575
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: DB09-416B-AFA5-ABA2-B575, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  4. 15w ago · Beko · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → press release
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Industry: press release, ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/harvesttemplates/45c3307eb72c|details]])"
  5. 24w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product or material produced → press release
    Founded by → —
    Subclass of → —
    Inception → +1954-03-08T00:00:00Z
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ Crunchbase organization ID: pr-newswire, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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