News agencies are regularly mentioned in scholarly works among the principal sources of information for legacy news organisations and titles, particularly in the 24/7 online news environment. However, little is known about how these agencies themselves source news. To fill this gap in scholarship, Nelissen & Hendrickx present a case study of how Belgium’s national, multilingual news agency sources its science news. The authors first position their study within a conceptual framework combining insights from news diversity and translation studies research. Next, they operationalise a triangulation of a content analysis, a survey, and interviews with newsroom staff to shed light on the practices and policies that shape and constrain the inner workings of a national news agency in a small, multilingual media market. The findings reveal a large, potentially worrying, dependency on information subsidies and their assumed factuality from press releases and other news agencies, largely sourced locally. The authors contextualise their findings within wider news agency and science journalism research.