A news agency is an organization 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. Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, reporting and analyzing information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... NeWS, for Network extensible Window System, was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s. ... The terms news trade or news business refers to news-related organizations in the mass media (or information media) as a business entity —associated with but distinct from the profession of journalism. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ...

News agencies can be either corporations that sell news (e.g. Reuters), 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. PR Newswire). Governments may also control "news agencies," particularly in authoritarian states, like China, Russia and to a lesser degree the United States. 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. Reuters is a company supplying global financial markets and news media with a range of information products and transactional solutions, including real-time and historical market data, research and analytics, financial trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photographs. ... Associated Press logo This article concerns the news service. ... PR Newswire Logo PR Newswire provides electronic distribution of news releases to media outlets and web portals. ... The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ... An alternative news agency (or alternative news service) operates in a similar fashion to a commercial news agency, but defines itself as an alternative to commerical or mainstream operations. ... As long as there has been media there has been alternative media. ... Corporate media is a term used by media critics in United States political discourse which implies that the mainstream media is controlled by large multinational corporations. ...

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 may also subscribe. Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptoanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ...

Prominent international news agencies include:

• All Headline News
• Agence France-Presse
• 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 News Service
• Kyodo
• ITIM - Israel
• ITAR-TASS, Russia
• China News Service,China
• United Press International
• 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

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. All Headline News™ is a news aggregation and gathering service that provides live real-time access to the latest news and business information that is aggregated from thousands of worldwide sources. ... Agence France-Presse (abbreviated AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. ... Associated Press logo This article concerns the news service. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a Financial Media Company founded by Mike Bloomberg in 1982. ... Reuters is a company supplying global financial markets and news media with a range of information products and transactional solutions, including real-time and historical market data, research and analytics, financial trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photographs. ... The Press Association is the national news agency of the United Kingdom. ... The Canadian Press is a Canadian news agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to distribute Associated Press material to Canadian news media, mainly because it was very difficult to spread news across such a huge country, covering many time zones. ... Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by about 70 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... City News Bureau of Chicago, or City Press, was one of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States. ... Not to be confused with Kyoto Kyodo News (共同通信社) is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato-ku, Tokyo. ... ITAR-TASS (ИТАР-ТАСС), Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, is the major news agency of the Russian Federation. ... The China News Service (中国新闻社; pinyin: Zhong1 Guo2 Xin1 Wen2 She4, or 中新社 zhong1 xin1 she4 for short) is the second largest news agency in Mainland China. ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ... Pacific News Service (PNS) is a nonprofit media organization founded in 1969. ... Deutsche Presse Agentur (German Press Agency) is a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese: 新華社; pinyin: ), or NCNA (New China News Agency), is the official press agency of the government of the Peoples Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is one of the... Yonhap news agency is the sole news agency in South Korea that supplies domestic and foreign news and information to newspaper and TV broadcast and other subscribers in South Korea. ... Australian Associated Press is Australias national news agency and is Australias largest independent originator and aggregator of news and information, serving the media, government, business and financial markets. ... Press Trust of India is a nonprofit cooperative among the Indian newspapers. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Public relations (PR) is the practice of conveying messages to the public through the media on behalf of a client, with the intention of changing the publics actions by influencing their opinions. ...

Commercial newswire services include:

• PR Newswire (founded in 1954)
• Canada Newswire
• Business Wire
• MarketWire
• PrimeZone