A lot of news is produced by news agencies, also known as news services or wire services. These agencies have reporters in many countries and supply news stories to newspapers, websites, and broadcasting stations. However, most of them are centrally organized and based in a particular country.

Sometimes websites and library databases provide location information for news services, and sometimes they do not. So it’s not always easy to tell where they are based.

A few of the most prominent news agencies are listed on the right, along with where they are based. If you find an article from a different news agency, find their website and try to find location information there.

What is "BBC Monitoring"?

This is a unique service based in Britain that is unlike many other news services because it does not produce news on its own, but instead gathers news published or broadcast around the world. It also translates news articles into English if they were originally in a different language. Look for a note at the beginning or the end of the article indicating from which source the article was taken -- this will help you determine the country in which it was originally produced.

AllAfrica is a similar type of service, which concentrates on aggregating news articles from African countries.

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