A news agency is an organization of 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.

News agencies can be corporations that sell news (e.g. Reuters and All Headline News (AHN)), cooperatives composed of newspapers that share their articles with each other (e.g. AP), commercial newswire services which charge organizations to distribute their news (e.g. Market Wire, Business Wire, and PR Newswire). Governments may also control "news agencies," particularly in authoritarian states, like China and the Soviet Union or non-profit organizations operated by both professionals and volunteers. Australia, Britain, Canada, and many other countries also have government-funded news agencies. 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.

News agencies generally prepare hard news stories and feature 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. The business proposition of news agencies might thus be responsible for the current trends in separation of fact based reporting from Op-eds.

Prominent international news agencies

* Agence France-Presse
* All Headline News (AHN)
* Agencia Internacional de Noticias
* ANP (The Netherlands)
* ANSA (Italy)
* Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (Italy)
* Associated Press
* Associated Press of Pakistan - Not associated with AP
* Australian Associated Press
* BASA-press (the first independent news agency from The Republic of Moldova)
* British Broadcasting Corporation
* Bloomberg L.P.
* Canadian Press
* Canadian University Press
* China News Service, China
* City News Bureau of Chicago
* Cox Enterprises
* DPA (Germany)
* EFE, Agencia EFE
* ITN, Independent Television News
* Interfax
* Inter Press Service Global news agency featuring development news
* ITIM - Israel
* ITAR-TASS, Russia
* Kyodo News (Japan)
* Maghreb Arab Press (Morocco) (aka La MAP)
* Nippon News (Japan)
* OANA
* The Press Association (UK)
* Pacific News Service
* Petra (Agency) (Jordan)
* Press Trust of India
* QHA, Ukraine
* Reuters
* United Press International
* Xinhua News Agency, China
* Yonhap, Korea
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.

Commercial newswire services

*Asia Corporate News Network
*Business Wire
*CCN Matthews
*CNW Group
*Empire Information Services
*Eworldwire
*Japan Corporate News Network
*Market Wire
*New Oceania
*Nonprofit Newswire
*PR Newswire
*PrimeZone
*TransWorldNews
*Wireless Flash News
*News Agencies in Pakistan

Free online newswire services

*PRFree
*ClickPress
*Newsmotto
*USPRwire
*UKPRwire
*Scitech News
*CSUWIRE