A news agency is an organization that gathers news stories from a particular country or from all over the world and supplies them to journalists. A correspondent for Reuters news agency says he saw a number of demonstrators being beaten. An organization that provides news coverage to subscribers, as to newspapers or periodicals. Also called press agency, press association. an organization that collects news stories and supplies them to newspapers, radio, and television. or news service or wire service Organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not publish news itself but supplies news to subscribers, who, by sharing costs, obtain services they could not otherwise afford. All the mass media depend on agencies for the bulk of the news they carry. Some agencies focus on special subjects or on a local area or nation. Many news agencies are cooperatives, with members providing news from their area to a pool for general use. The largest news agencies are United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse