News agency
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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. They are also known as wire services or news services.
News agencies can be corporations that sell news (e.g. Reuters and All Headline News), cooperatives composed of newspapers that share their articles with each other (e.g. AP), commercial newswire services which charge organisations to distribute their news (e.g. Business Wire, PR Newswire and Market Wire). Governments may also control "news agencies," particularly in authoritarian states, like China and the Soviet Union or non-profit organizations operated by both professionals and volunteers. A recent rise in internet-based alternative news agencies, 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. They provide these articles in bulk electronically through wire services (originally they used telegraphy; today they frequently use the Internet). Corporations, individuals, analysts and intelligence agencies may also subscribe. The business proposition of news agencies might thus be responsible for the current trends in separation of fact based reporting from Op-eds.
Prominent international news agencies include:
- All Headline News (AHN)
- BASA-press (the first independent news agency from The Republic of Moldova)
- Agence France-Presse (the oldest, founded in 1835)
- ANSA (Italy)
- Associated Press (founded in 1848)
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters
- The Press Association (UK)
- Canadian Press
- Canadian University Press (founded in 1938)
- City News Bureau of Chicago
- Cox Enterprises
- EFE
- EIN News
- Kyodo
- Israel News Agency - Israel
- ITIM - Israel
- ITAR-TASS, Russia
- Carrefour international de la Presse universitaire francophone, CIPUF
- China News Service,China
- United Press International (founded in 1907)
- ANP (The Netherlands)
- Pacific News Service
- DPA (Germany)
- OANA
- Xinhua News Agency, People's Republic of China
- Yonhap, Korea
- Australian Associated Press
- Press Trust of India
- BASA-press
News 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.
Commercial newswire services include:
- Asia Corporate News Network
- Business Wire (founded in 1961)
- TransWorldNews
- Canada Newswire
- Japan Corporate News Network
- Market Wire
- NonprofitNewswire.com
- PR Newswire (founded in 1954)
- PrimeZone
Free online newswire services include:
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