news agency
agency that collects and distributes news to newspapers (and television stations, etc.)
News agency
A news agency is an organization of
journalists established to supply
news reports to organizations in the
news trade:
newspapers,
magazines, and
radio and
television broadcasters. They are also known as wire services or news services. News agencies can be corporations that sell news (e.g.
Reuters and
Agence France-Presse (AFP)), cooperatives composed of newspapers that share their articles with each other (e.g.
AP), or commercial newswire services which charge organizations to distribute their news (e.g.
Market Wire,
Business Wire and
PR Newswire). Governments may also control news agencies, particularly in
authoritarian states, like
China (
Xinhua).
Australia,
Britain,
Canada,
Russia (
ITAR-TASS) and many other countries also have government-funded news agencies. A recent rise in
internet-based
alternative news agencies like Scooplive and Scoopt, as a component of the larger
alternative media have emphasized a "non-corporate view," as being largely independent of the pressures of
business media.
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news agency
Noun
1. an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically
(synonym) press agency, wire service, press association, news organization, news organisation
(hypernym) agency
(hyponym) syndicate
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