news-agency

A news-agency reporter interviews a local business owner.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • An organization that collects and distributes news: A "news agency" is a business or service that gathers news reports, articles, and information from around the world and supplies them to newspapers, broadcasters, and other media outlets. It is also known as a wire service.

Usage Examples

• (A large global organization that collects and sends news to media companies.)
• (A smaller organization that gathers news for regional outlets.)

Advanced Usage

• "to subscribe to a news agency": to pay for the regular receipt of news reports from a wire service.
  • Many newspapers subscribe to a news agency to get breaking stories quickly. (They pay for a service that delivers urgent news.)

Variants and Related Words

• News-wire (n): a service or system for transmitting news, often synonymous with a news agency.
  • The Associated Press news-wire sent out the report within minutes. (The wire service transmitted the news electronically.)

Synonyms

• Wire service: another term for a news agency, emphasizing the historical use of telegraph wires to transmit news.
  • The wire service distributed the election results. (The news agency sent the information to its subscribers.)

Related Idioms

• "to be on the news wire": to be reported by a news agency.
  • The story was on the news wire before any local paper could publish it. (The news agency released the report first.)

Phrasal Verbs

• None directly associated with "news agency" as a compound noun.