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News agency

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounCore term

In journalism & media, news agency means: An organisation that collects news, photos and video and sells or supplies them to newspapers, broadcasters and websites, which then publish them.

In Turkish: haber ajansı, ajans

How it is used

Also called a wire service, and its stories are called wire copy or agency copy. Newsrooms monitor the wires all day and often credit the agency at the end of a story. Agencies can be international, national or specialised.

Example sentences

  1. The first reports of the crash came from a news agency photographer at the airport.

  2. Most of our foreign stories are based on copy from two news agencies.

Common collocations

  • international news agency
  • national news agency
  • agency copy
  • wire service
  • agency photographer
  • media outletAny organisation or channel that publishes or broadcasts news and information, such as a newspaper, TV channel, radio station, magazine or news website.
  • correspondentA reporter who is based in a particular city or country, or who specialises in one subject, and sends regular reports from there or about it.
  • breaking newsNews about an important event that is happening right now or has only just happened, reported as soon as it is known and updated as more details come in.
  • the pressNewspapers, magazines and news media as a group, and the journalists who work for them; originally the printing press used to produce newspapers.

More terms: News Gathering and Sources

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