news agency

See also: newsagency

English

Noun

news agency (plural news agencies)

1. An organisation that gathers and distributes news to newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.
2. (Ireland, Australia) Alternative form of newsagency

Translations

organisation that gathers and distributes news

• Arabic: وَكَالَةْ أَنْبَاء f (wakālat ʔanbāʔ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新聞社／新闻社 (xīnwénshè), 通訊社／通讯社 (zh) (tōngxùnshè)

• Finnish: uutistoimisto (fi)
• French: agence de nouvelles f
• Galician: axencia de noticias f
• Georgian: საინფორმაციო სააგენტო (sainpormacio saagenṭo)
• German: Nachrichtenagentur (de) f, Presseagentur (de) f
• Hungarian: hírügynökség (hu)
• Icelandic: fréttastofa f
• Japanese: 通信社 (ja) (つうしんしゃ, tsūshinsha)
• Korean: 통신사(通信社) (tongsinsa)
• Macedonian: новинска агенција f (novinska agencija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyhetsbyrå n

  Nynorsk: nyheitsbyrå n

• Persian: آژانس خبری (fa) (âžâns-e xabari)
• Polish: agencja prasowa f
• Portuguese: agência de notícias f
• Romanian: agenție de presă (ro) f
• Russian: информацио́нное аге́нтство (ru) n (informaciónnoje agéntstvo), аге́нтство новосте́й n (agéntstvo novostéj)
• Serbo-Croatian: novinska agencija f
• Spanish: agencia de noticias f, agencia de información f
• Swedish: nyhetsbyrå (sv) c
• Thai: สำนักข่าว (săm-nák kàao)
• Urdu: خبر رساں ادارہ (xabar rasā̃ idāra), اخبار فروش ادارہ (axbār farosh idāra)
• Vietnamese: hãng thông tấn, hãng tin, thông tấn xã (vi)

Further reading

• “news agency”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “news agency”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “news agency”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “news agency”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.