An organization providing a general or specialized news service. Agencies range from large, publicly-quoted companies (eg Reuters) and state-owned concerns (eg Xinhua) to small private operations. Clients, especially the media, subscribe to the continuous (wire) service provided by the major agencies, or buy individual items locally.
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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.
News agencies can be corporations that sell news (e.g. A recent rise in internet-based alternative news agencies like 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.
News agencies generally prepare hard news stories and feature articles that can be used by other news organizations with little or no modification, and then sell them to other news organizations.
Notable international news agencies
Agence France-Presse All Headline News (AHN) Agencia Internacional de Noticias ANP (The Netherlands) ANSA (Italy) ANTARA, Indonesia Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (Italy) Associated Press Associated Press of Pakistan - Not associated with AP Australian Associated Press BASA-press (the first independent news agency from The Republic of Moldova) British Broadcasting Corporation Bloomberg L.P. Canadian Press Canadian University Press China News Service, China City News Bureau of Chicago Cox Enterprises DPA (Germany) EFE, Agencia EFE Indymedia, Independent Media ITN, Independent Television News Interfax Inter Press Service Global news agency featuring development news ITIM - Israel ITAR-TASS, Russia Kyodo News (Japan) Maghreb Arab Press (Morocco) (aka La MAP) Nippon News (Japan) NZPA (New Zealand) OANA The Press Association (UK) Pacific News Service Petra (Agency) (Jordan) Power and Interest News Report Press Trust of India QHA, Ukraine Reuters United Press International Xinhua News Agency, China Yonhap, KoreaNews agencies are distinct from news syndicates that distribute comic strips and other editorial material, such as columns and features, and also from PR services that distribute press releases. Sometimes news agencies have separate arms for such work, but many such organizations are completely separate.
These are Organisations which gather news and feature stories and send them out to client newspapers. They may send them through telegraph wires like the Philippines News Agency (thus the term wire service) or like Depthnews, they may mail them out to the client newspapers.
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