The National Press Agency, commonly known by the acronym ANSA, is the first multimedia information agency in Italy and among the first in the world. It was founded in Rome in 1945 in cooperative form by the first six newspapers of liberated Italy, to succeed the dissolved Stefani Agency and ensure the country has independent basic information.

The ANSA is a cooperative made up of twenty-three publishers of the main Italian newspapers and aims to collect, publish, and distribute news, images, and insights on major Italian and world events, in all formats and on all transmission platforms. To this end, the agency has twenty-two offices in Italy and fifty correspondent offices on five continents; its extensive network of journalists around the world allows it to independently and autonomously publish news on major international events.

The ANSA transmits over 3,500 news items, publishes 2,300 photos, and more than sixty videos a day, which are distributed to Italian media, national, local, and international institutions, trade associations, political parties, trade unions, and the corporate market.