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NEWS AGENCY [1 record]

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Record 1 1993-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • News and Journalism (General)
DEF

A commercial organization that collects and supplies news to subscribing newspapers, periodicals and news broadcasters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Information et journalisme (Généralités)
DEF

Organisme faisant la collecte des informations pour les diffuser à des abonnés de la presse écrite et électronique.

CONT

La Presse canadienne est une agence de presse, par opposition à TELBEC qui, elle, est une agence de transmission.

OBS

On utilise dans certains milieux l'expression AGENCE D'INFORMATION au sens d'AGENCE DE PRESSE.

OBS

En pratique, on emploie souvent indifféremment agence de presse et agence d'information. Toutefois, le Grand Robert considère que l'agence de presse est un type d'agence d'information qui dessert la presse écrite.

Spanish

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