NewsML™ is a media-type agnostic news exchange format for general news and NewsML-G2 2.0 is its latest standard.

News exchange is a method of conveying not only the core news content, but also data that describe the content in an abstract way (i.e. metadata), information about how to handle news in an appropriate way (i.e. news management metadata), information about the packaging of news information, and
finally information about the technical transfer itself.

NewsML-G2 provides exchange formats for:

• General news: textual news, articles, photos, graphics, audio and video can be exchanged - the News Item
• A flexible mechanism for packaging news in a structured way - the Package Item.
• Information about concepts, used for values in controlled vocabularies - the Concept Item - and further a format to exchange full controlled vocabularies as a single file - the Knowledge Item.
• A wrapper around items to transmit them by any electronic means - the News Message.

NewsML-G2 is a member of the family of G2-Standards, thus is shares many of its components with the other standards of this family. These shared components make the IPTC News Architecture for G2 and can be considered as the framework all the G2-Standars are built on.