La stampa riferisce la notizia.

Here, la stampa means the press or the news media.

A few useful notes:

• stampa can also mean printing or press in other contexts.
• In this sentence, it does not mean a printer or the act of printing.
• It is a collective noun: one singular word used to talk about a group, like newspapers, journalists, or media outlets in general.

So la stampa is functioning like the press in English.

Italian usually uses the definite article more often than English does.

So when talking about the press as a general institution, Italian normally says:

• la stampa
• not just stampa

This is very common with general categories and institutions in Italian. English sometimes drops the article, but Italian often keeps it.

Riferisce is the third-person singular present indicative of riferire.

That means it matches a singular subject such as:

• la stampa riferisce
• il giornale riferisce
• Maria riferisce

In this sentence, the subject la stampa is singular, so the verb is singular too: riferisce.

Because riferire belongs to a group of -ire verbs that add -isc- in some present-tense forms.

For riferire, the present tense is:

• io riferisco
• tu riferisci
• lui/lei riferisce
• noi riferiamo
• voi riferite
• loro riferiscono

So the -isc- appears in:

• io
• tu
• lui/lei
• loro

but not in:

• noi
• voi

This is a normal pattern, not a random irregularity.

In this sentence, riferire means something like:

• to report
• to relay
• to state

With la stampa as the subject and la notizia as the object, it has the sense of reporting or conveying news.

It is a bit more formal than simply using dire for to say.

Because both nouns are feminine singular and both are definite.

• la stampa = the press
• la notizia = the news item / the story

Each noun needs its own article. Italian does not avoid repeating the article here.

So the structure is simply:

• la stampa = subject
• riferisce = verb
• la notizia = direct object

This is a very common point of confusion.

In Italian:

• notizia = a piece of news, a news item, a story
• notizie = news items, news

English news is grammatically singular but refers to information in a general way. Italian often uses notizia/notizie more countably.

So la notizia suggests:

• a specific news item
• a particular piece of information
• a specific story being reported

Mostly because of normal word order.

This sentence follows the standard Italian pattern:

• subject + verb + object

So:

• La stampa = subject
• riferisce = verb
• la notizia = object

Also, semantically it makes sense: the press reports the news, not the other way around.

It is true that both la stampa and la notizia are feminine singular, so their forms alone do not distinguish subject from object. In this sentence, word order and meaning do the job.

A rough pronunciation is:

la STAM-pa ri-fe-REE-she la no-TEE-tsya

A few sound notes:

• stampa has stress on STAM
• riferisce has stress on REE
• notizia has stress on TEE
• sce in riferisce sounds like she
• zia in notizia sounds roughly like tsya

That is only an approximation, but it is a good starting point for an English speaker.