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{{short description|Japanese news agency}}
{{Expand Japanese|共同通信社|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Kyodo News
| logo = Kyodo_News_logo.svg
| former_name = Domei News Agency
| image = [[File:Shiodome Media Tower.jpg|260px|border]]
| image_size = 
| image_alt = 
| image_caption = [[Shiodome Media Tower]], headquarters of Kyodo News in Minato, Tokyo, Japan 
| type = Nonprofit cooperative news agency
| founded = {{Start date and age|1945}}
| founder = [[Furuno Inosuke]]
| area_served = Japan and worldwide 
| key_people = 
| industry = [[News agency]]
| revenue =
| location = Tokyo, Minato-ku, Higashi-Shimbashi 1-chome No. 7 No. 1
| operating_income = 40.7 billion yen (Fiscal year ended March 2012)
| net_income = 
| num_employees = 1,621 ({{asof|2022|4|1|lc=y|df=US}})
| subsid =  Kyodo News International
| parent = 
| homepage = {{official URL}}
| footnotes = 
}}

{{Nihongo|'''Kyodo News'''|共同通信社|Kyōdō Tsūshinsha}} is a [[nonprofit]] [[cooperative]] [[news agency]] based in [[Minato, Tokyo]]. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all [[newspaper]]s, and [[radio]] and [[television]] networks in [[Japan]]. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million [[subscriber]]s. '''K. K. Kyodo News''' is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.<ref name=s214>Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. {{ISBN|978-1-932705-67-6}}.</ref> The subdivision '''Kyodo News International''', founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in [[Rockefeller Center]], [[New York City]].<ref name=s214/>

Their online news site is in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]] ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]] and [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]), [[Korean language|Korean]], and [[English language|English]].

The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.<ref name=s214/>

[[Satoshi Ishikawa]] is the news agency's president.<ref>"Kyodo News names General Manager Ishikawa as new president." Kyodo News International. May 26, 2005.</ref>

Kyodo News was formed by [[Furuno Inosuke]], the president of the [[Domei Tsushin|Domei News Agency]], following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.<ref>Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 310</ref>

== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Economics}}
* {{Portal-inline|Journalism}}
* {{Portal-inline|Politics}}

==References==
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== External links ==
Kyodo News
* [https://english.kyodonews.net/ Official news site - Japan Wire by Kyodo News (ジャパンワイヤー)] (English)
* [https://www.47news.jp/ Official news site] (Japanese)
* [http://www.kyodonews.jp/english/ Official corporate site] (English)
* [http://www.kyodonews.jp/ Official corporate site] (Japanese)

K. K. Kyodo News
* [http://www.kyodo.co.jp/ Official site (Japanese)]

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