press agency—(also: news agency) an organization that provides news coverage to newspapers, etc.:
- According to a report issued by Reuters press agency, about 600 people have been evacuated after Mount Egon on Flores island started to erupt.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase press agent—a person employed to arrange favorable publicity for a firm, public figure, etc:
- The development of a fine reputation as a surgeon is not built by a press agent or a web site.
press agentry—the promotion of entertainment stars, politicians, etc. to magazines, radio, and television:
- When press agentry began it was much more basic and considered to be vile and base by social critics and newspaper editors.