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Definition: News Agency |
News AgencyNoun1. An agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: News AgencySynonyms: news organization (n), press agency (n), press association (n), wire service (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
News agencies generally prepare 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 often also subscribe to news agencies as sources of information.
Whether the news agency is a government entity or a commercial firm, dependence on official sources often results in systematic biases in the content of its news coverage. (See "Reporting a New Delhi Bias? A Content Analysis of AP Wire Stories on the Conflicts in Sri Lanka and Kashmir," by John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 6, Number 3, (Spring 2002) at http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v613/sri.htm ).
US news agencies include:
Commercial PR services include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "News agency."
Crosswords: News Agency |
| English words defined with "news agency": news organization, newsroom ♦ press agency, press association ♦ syndicate ♦ wire service. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "news agency": Agricultural Marketing Service ♦ COORDINATOR, VOLUNTEER SERVICES ♦ public-relations practitioner, PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ♦ volunteer coordinator. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | H. L. Stevenson (Editor-In-Chief and V.P., UPI, New York with Chang Hai-Tao (Chief, Hsinhua News Agency, United Nations, and Tu Pei-Lin (Deputy Chief, Hsinhua News Agency, U.N.).Credit: CDC. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Brazil | The News Agency for Children's Rights closely tracks stories in the media, publishes studies, and gives awards to media outlets that effectively cover child welfare issues. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | Tanjug is the state-owned news agency. (references) |
Libya | The official news agency, JANA, is the designated conduit for official views. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | AGENCIA EFE: Government owned EFE was founded in 1939. EFE News Agency gained international prominence in a remarkably short time. (references) |
Bahrain | Bapco officials, quoted by Bahrain's GNA news agency, said the funding would be raised by the end of 2001 and the project completed by 2004. (references) | |
Greece | The Secretary General of Press and Information prepares the Athens News Agency (ANA) Bulletin, which is used, with AP and Reuters, as a primary source of information by the Greek press. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yemen | On January 1 and 2, explosive devices were detonated in Aden outside the Anglican Christ Church, which is used as a transient hotel by seamen, and the official SABA News Agency office. (references) |
Russia | In September 2000, the news agency Agence France Presse, citing sources close to the Chechen leadership, reported that Alikhadzhiyev had died of a heart attack in the Lefortovo pretrial detention facility in Moscow. (references) | |
Hong Kong | In June 1999, the High Court dismissed a legislator's civil suit over the failure of the then-New China News Agency (NCNA) to respond within the PDPO-specified time frame to the legislator's request for information about herself in the agency's files, because the NCNA Director named in the suit was not in Hong Kong at the time the incident occurred. (references) | |
Political Rights | Hong Kong | Politicians and human rights activists criticized the selection process as undemocratic and lacking transparency and noted that Central Government Liaison Office (formerly the New China News Agency) Director Jiang Enzhu, who is not a Hong Kong permanent resident, is one of Hong Kong's 36 delegates. (references) |
Travel | Barbados | The Caribbean News Agency (CANA) is based in Barbados. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
international news agency | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "news agency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | agjenci lajmesh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وكالة أنباء (press agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | информационна агенция (press agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 路透社 (Reuters news agency), 新華社 (Xinhua news agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prodejna novin (news agent's). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uutistoimisto, tietotoimisto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agence d'information. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachrichtenagentur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ειδησεογραφικό πρακτορείο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hírügynökség (press association, syndicate), újságárus pavilon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 通信社 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つうし"しゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewsnay agencyay novidades. (various references) agenţie de ştiri. (various references) телеграфное агентство. (various references) novinska agencija (news service, press agency). (various references) agencia de noticias. (various references) nyhetsbyrå (newsagency, press agency), notisbyrå. (various references) haber ajansı (wire service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n-n-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: cayennes. | |
-3 letters: cayenne, encages. | |
-4 letters: agency, agenes, encage, encase, nances, nancys, sawney, seance, seneca, senega, sewage, sweeny, weensy. | |
-5 letters: acnes, agene, cages, cagey, canes, canny, cease, cense, cyans, gawsy, genes, gnawn, gnaws, nance, nancy, nenes, newsy, ngwee, scena, scene, senna, sewan, swage, swang, sycee, wages, wanes, waney, weans, weens, weeny, wenny, wynns, yangs, yawns, yeans. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 77 73 41 67 65 6E 63 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110111 01110011 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e w s   A g e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0077 0073 0041 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487189852357371806991 |
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