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news agency

news gathering organization
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Summary

news agency draws 2,520 Wikipedia views per month (media category, ranking #2 of 3).[1]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: journalism[2]
  • Subclass of: media company[3], news media[4]
  • Commons category: News agencies[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:News agencies[6]
  • Product or material produced: news[7]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:News agency[9], Template:News agencies[10]
  • Different from: news desk[11], print syndicate[12], newswire[13]
  • History of topic: history of news agencies[14]

Why It Matters

news agency has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_news-agency_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{news agency}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/news-agency}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · Johshh · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → nyhetsbyrå
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: nyhetsbyrå"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → news-agencies
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: news-agencies, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952469|news agencies (#289952469)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  3. 16w ago · Legonin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0266985-tiskove-agentury
    Larousse id → divers/wd/19247
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Larousse id: divers/wd/19247"
  4. 22w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX524717
    Tdkiv term id → 000002798
    National library of israel j9u id → —
    Tdkiv wikibase id → —
    + 100 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||yo, ko */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
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