press release

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

press release (plural press releases)

1. An official written statement that is sent to the media so that it can be publicized.

   Synonym: handout

   The company sent out a press release announcing its new product.

Derived terms

• policy by press release
• science by press release

Related terms

• press conference
• science by press conference

Translations

official written media statement

• Arabic: بَيَان صَحَفِيّ m (bayān ṣaḥafiyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: press-reliz
• Belarusian: прэс-рэлі́з m (pres-relíz), камюніке́ n (kamjunikjé)
• Bengali: প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি (pres bijnopti)
• Bulgarian: пресрели́йз m (presrelíjz), комюнике́ (bg) n (komjuniké)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新聞稿 / 新闻稿 (zh) (xīnwéngǎo)

• Czech: tisková zpráva f
• Danish: pressemeddelelse c
• Dutch: persbericht (nl) n, persverklaring (nl) f
• Estonian: pressiteade
• Finnish: lehdistötiedote (fi)
• French: communiqué de presse (fr) m, communiqué (fr) m
• Georgian: პრეს-რელიზი (ṗres-relizi)
• German: Pressemitteilung (de) f, Presseerklärung (de) f, Pressemeldung (de) f, Presseaussendung f (Austria)
• Greek: δελτίο τύπου n (deltío týpou)
• Hindi: विज्ञप्ति (hi) f (vijñapti), प्रेस विज्ञप्ति f (pres vijñapti)
• Hungarian: sajtóközlemény (hu)
• Icelandic: fréttatilkynning f
• Indonesian: siaran pers
• Italian: comunicato stampa m, comunicato (it) m
• Japanese: 記者発表 (きしゃはっぴょう, kisha happyū), プレスリリース (puresurirīsu)
• Kazakh: баспасөз релизі (baspasöz reliyzi)
• Korean: 보도자료(報道資料) (bodojaryo)
• Kyrgyz: пресс-релиз (press-reliz)
• Latvian: paziņojums presei m
• Lithuanian: pranešimas žiniasklaidai m
• Māori: pānui pāpāho
• Norman: commeunitchi ès médias m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: presseskriv n, pressemelding (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pressemelding f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِعْلامِیِّهٔ مَطْبوعاتی (e'lâmiyye-ye matbu'âti), بَیَانِیِّهٔ مَطْبوعاتی (beyâniyye-ye matbu'âti)

• Polish: notatka prasowa f, komunikat prasowy m inan
• Portuguese: comunicado (pt) m, comunicado de imprensa (pt) m
• Romanian: comunicat de presă n, comunicat (ro) n
• Russian: пресс-рели́з (ru) m (press-relíz), коммюнике́ (ru) n (kommjuniké)
• Slovak: tlačová správa f
• Slovene: izjava za javnost f
• Spanish: comunicado de prensa m, comunicado (es) m
• Swedish: pressmeddelande (sv) n
• Thai: ข่าวประชาสัมพันธ์ (kàao-bprà-chaa-sǎm-pan), ข่าวแจก (kàao-jɛ̀ɛk)
• Turkish: basın açıklaması
• Ukrainian: прес-релі́з (uk) m (pres-relíz), комюніке́ n (komjuniké)
• Urdu: خَبَری اِشاعِیَہ m (xabarī iśā'iya), اِشاعِیَہ m (iśā'iya)
• Uzbek: press-reliz
• Vietnamese: thông cáo báo chí

See also

• PR, public relations
• public diplomacy