persbureau
Persbureau is the Dutch term for a news agency—an organization that gathers, verifies, writes, and distributes news and related content to subscribing media outlets. A persbureau aims to supply timely national and international reporting, often operating around the clock with reporters, editors, photographers, and video crews. Content is distributed to newspapers, broadcasters, magazines, and online publishers that license or syndicate the material.
Typical offerings include text articles, photographs, video clips, graphics, and sometimes translations or summaries. Agencies provide
Organizationally, a persbureau maintains a newsroom and multiple bureaus—domestic and international—to cover events. Revenue generally comes
Historically, press agencies emerged in the 19th century to speed the distribution of news via telegraph. They