The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) is the official news agency of Iran. It is government funded and controlled under the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. IRNA has 60 offices in Iran and 30 more around the world. Its goals include expanding its international branches, prioritizing news from an Islamic and Iranian perspective, and cooperating with other foreign news agencies. IRNA guidelines also focus on disseminating pro-Iranian news and information as widely as possible.

2.  Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a
government-operated national news
agency of Pakistan. The name APP should not to
be confused with Associated Press Service (APS)
is a private independent Pakistani news agency
and other the much larger Associated Press news
agency (AP), based in New York, though it is a
subscriber to both AP and Reuters, based in
London. APP has News Exchange Agreements
with 37 Foreign News Agencies and more than
500 correspondents.

3.  Since its inception after the independence of Pakistan, the
financial situation of APP continued to deteriorate until it
was on the verge of collapse. This was a direct result of
the withholding of payment of funds from the Government
of Pakistan due towards APP from the Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting in an effort to create a
financial crisis for the national news agency. In the early
1960s, APP owed about Rs. 8 lakhs (Rupees 800,000) to
the government's Post and Telegraph Department and
another Rs. 12 lakhs (Rupees 1200,000) in unpaid
subscription fees to foreign news agencies.
The Government of Pakistan intervened and took over the
agency on 15 July 1961 following the instructions of
certain vested interests within the Government of Pakistan.
A government ordinance was issued for it. The given
reason was to strengthen APP's financial foundation.

4.  The takeover took place with several changes: Malik
Tajuddin was removed and A K Qureshi, a senior
government officer with some journalistic experience,
was hired as Administrator of APP. The head office of
the agency was shifted to Islamabad, the new capital
of Pakistan. While the financial position of the agency
further deteriorated, its coverage became more
biased as the government started to use it as an
official mouthpiece. A K Qureshi was a member of the
ill-fated National Press Trust delegation traveling to
London by PIA Flight 705 that crashed at Cairo on
May 20, 1965. He is buried in a mass grave at Cairo
alongside his fellow passengers: victims of Pakistan's
first jet aircraft disaster.

5.  Press Trust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in
India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is
a nonprofit cooperative among more than 500
Indian newspapers and has more than 1,000 full-time
employees, as on January 22, 2016. It employs over 400
journalists and 500 part-time correspondents located in
most of the district headquarters in the country. A few
correspondents are based in major capitals and important
business centres around the world. It took over the
operations of the Associated Press of
Indiafrom Reuters after India's independence in
1947.[5][6] It provides news coverage and information of the
region in both English and Hindi. Its corporate office is
located at Sansad Marg, New Delhi and registered office in
D N Road, Mumbai.

6.  It exchanges information with several other news
agencies including 100 news agencies based outside
India, such as Associated Press, Agence France-
Presse, The New York Times and Bloomberg L.P..
Major Indian subscribers of PTI include The
Hindu, Times of India, the Indian Express,
the Hindustan Times, The Statesman, The Tribune,
the All India Radio and Doordarshan. PTI has offices
in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kual
a Lumpur, Moscow, New York and Washington D.C..
 Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South
Asia which operates its own communication satellite,
an INSAT, to broadcast news and information.
 Its current chairman is Viveck Goenka.

7. 
Press Trust of India (PTI) is India’s premier news agency, having a
reach as vast as the Indian Railways. It employs more than 400
journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and
small town in India. Collectively, they put out more than 2,000
stories and 200 photographs a day to feed the expansive
appetite of the diverse subscribers, who include the mainstream
media, the specialized presses, research groups, companies, and
government and non-governmental organizations.
PTI correspondents are also based in leading
capitals and important business and administrative centers
around the world. It also has exchange arrangements with
several foreign news agencies to magnify its global news
footprint.
Currently, PTI commands 90 per cent of new agency market
share in India.
PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in
1949. Today, after 65 years of its service, PTI can well and truly
take pride in the legacy of its work, and in its contribution
towards the building of a free and fair Press in India. On its
golden jubilee in 1999, President K R Narayanan said:"We got
independence in August 1947.But independence in news and
information we got only with the establishment of PTI in
1949.That is the significance of PTI..."

8.  Xinhua News Agency or New China News Agency is the official press
agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua is the biggest and most
influential media organization in China, as well as the largest news
agency in the world in terms of correspondents worldwide. Xinhua is a
ministry-level institution subordinate to the Chinese central government,
and is the highest ranking state media organ in the country alongside
the People's Daily. Its president is a member of the Central Committee of
China's Communist Party.
 Xinhua operates more than 170 foreign bureaus worldwide, and
maintains 31 bureaus in China—one for each province, autonomous
region and directly-administered municipality plus a military bureau.
Xinhua is the sole channel for the distribution of important news related
to the Communist Party and Chinese central government, and its
headquarters in Beijing is strategically located within close proximity
to Zhongnanhai, which houses the headquarters of the Communist Party
of China, the State Council and the office of the President of the People's
Republic of China.
 Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20
newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it publishes in several
languages, besides Chinese, including English, German, Spanish, French,
Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean.

9.  Xinhua delivers its news across the world in eight
languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian,
Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese, as well as news pictures
and other kinds of news. It has made contracts to
exchange news and news pictures with more than eighty
foreign news agencies or political news departments.
Xinhua is also responsible for handling, and in some
cases, censoring reports from foreign media destined to
release in China. The agency recently began to converge
its news and electronic media coverage and has increased
its English coverage through its wire service. Xinhua
recently acquired commercial real estate on New York's
Times Square and is developing a staff of top-tier English-
language reporters. Xinhua has also started an English-
language satellite news network

10.  The Islamic Republic News
Agency (Persian: ‫اسالمی‬ ‫جمهوری‬ ‫خبرگزاری‬ ),
or IRNA, is the official news agency of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. It is government-
funded and controlled under the
Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic
Guidance. The agency also publishes the
newspaper Iran. As of 2010, the Managing
Director of IRNA is Mohammad Khodaddi.
IRNA has 60 offices in Iran and 30 more in
various countries around the world.

11.  IRNA's administrative efforts are focused on an expansion
of its international news branches around the globe.
Branches ostensibly are given the task of producing news
items or selecting from those produced by various news
agencies, translating and disseminating them through its
various news lines. Its management is also constantly on
the look-out for possible new ways of expanding its level
of news dissemination in qualitative and quantitative
terms. It also seeks to expand its level of cooperation with
various foreign news agencies and corporations. Personnel
of IRNA branches abroad are currently in charge of
monitoring their respective countries' radio, television,
satellite and Internet networks to bring out news items not
already found in news dispatches. The offices also
organize regional news dissemination corporationswith
IRNA as a member, as well as monitor and program
activities of its branches.

12.  To effectively carry out its responsibilities it has set up the following guidelines:
 Mass production and dissemination of news and informative material taking into
account its main objective of promoting the interests and objectives of the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
 Promotion of the Islamic culture as far as possible and encountering the cultural
onslaught of enemies of the Islamic Revolution.
 Expansion of activities conducive to the acquisition and dissemination of more
news items inside and outside the country.
 Dissemination of news stories of the Islamic world in general.
 Providing news items to Iranian newspapers and periodicals.
 Laying the ground for a wholesome competition with major international news
agencies and corporations.
 Providing news and propaganda through as vast a network as possible.
 Expansion of its propaganda dissemination network as far and wide as is possible.
 Expansion and strengthening of professional level bilateral and multilateral
cooperation with various countries' news agencies and active cooperation in the
formation and strengthening of joint regional and international networks.
 Providing news dissemination and news research assistance outside its
organizational boundaries when its professional assistance is sought and when
they prove to be in the country's geopolitical and national interests.

13.  The Malaysian National News
Agency abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news agency of
the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous
body placed under the Ministry of Communication
and Multimedia. Bernama is an abbreviation
of Berita Nasional Malaysia. Bernama also
means named or titled in the Malay language. It was
set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started
work on 20 May 1968. Being the Malaysian
government's official news agency, Bernama's content
and views are decidedly right-leaning and pro-
government of the day.


14.  BERNAMA operates from its headquarters at Wisma
Bernama, off Jalan Tun Razak near National Library, Kuala
Lumpur. It has its branches in every state in Malaysia. It
also has correspondents in Jakarta, Singapore, New
Delhi, Bangkokand Beijing and also its stringers
in Washington, D.C., New York City, Australiaand London.
Most of the news media in Malaysia and Singapore and
international news agencies subscribe to BERNAMA.
 Bernama began reporting using the audio-visual medium
with the opening of its audio-visual division in September
1998. It also has its own radio and television
channel, Radio24, which is a 24-hours news and talk radio
station broadcasting in the areas of Kuala Lumpur or Klang
Valley on 93.9 FM and Johor Bahru on 107.5 FM,
and Bernama TV a news channel which offers news
in Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil on Channel 502 and
Channel 410 of Astro and UniFi, respectively.

15.  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is
a news agency in Syria. It is a Syrian state
media organization linked to the Ministry of
Information. It was established in June 1965.
 It is available in
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Tur
kish, Chinese, Russian, Persian languages.

16.  SANA launched its website in 1997. Up until
November 2012, SANA's website was hosted
in Dallas, Texas by the United States
company SoftLayer. Due to sanctions related
to the Syrian Civil War, which make this
hosting illegal, the SoftLayer company was
obliged to terminate its hosting
responsibilities with SANA.

17.  Sputnik is a news agency, news website platform and radio
broadcast service established by the Russian government-
controlled news agency Rossiya Segodnya. Headquartered
in Moscow, Sputnik has regional editorial offices
in Washington, Cairo, Beijing, London and Edinburgh; in
Sputnik's Washington D.C. office, Peter Martinichev is the editor
and Mikhail Safronov is the bureau chief. Sputnik focuses
on global politics and economics and is geared towards a non-
Russian audience.[4] According to The New York Times, Sputnik
engages in bias and disinformation, and has widely been
described as a Russian propaganda outlet.
 Sputnik currently operates news websites, featuring reporting
and commentary, in over 30 languages.
including English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and several others.
The websites also house over 800 hours of radio
broadcasting material each day and its newswire
service runs around the clock.

18.  Sputnik is a modern news agency whose products include newsfeeds, websites,
social networks, mobile apps, radio broadcasts and multimedia press centers.
 Sputnik HQ is located in Moscow. Regional offices are located in key regions and
countries around the world, including the United States (Washington, DC), China
(Beijing), France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), Egypt (Cairo) and the UK (London and
Edinburgh).
 The agency covers global political and economic news targeting an international
audience.
 The Sputnik brand was launched on November 10, 2014, by the Russian media
group Rossiya Segodnya. Today, the editorial staff of Sputnik works in more than
30 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, etc.
 The total volume of Sputnik's radio broadcasts on websites and FM and DAB/DAB+
frequencies adds up to over 800 hours daily.
 Sputnik newswire services work around the clock in English, Spanish, Arabic and
Chinese.
 Agency photographers work all over the world and have repeatedly received
prestigious international awards in the field of photojournalism, such as the World
Press Photo and Magnum Photography Awards. The agency has its own photo
database, called Sputnik Images, through which it sells photo and video materials,
as well as infographics.
 Among other agency products are public opinion surveys published
as Sputnik.Polls.
 Sputnik International's predecessors are the state-run news agency RIA Novosti
and the Voice of Russia radio service, which were disbanded in 2013.
 Sputnik photo service relies on a worldwide network of photojournalists.

19.  Anadolu Agency is an international news agency
headquartered in Ankara, Turkey and is a state-
run news agency of the Turkish government.
 The Anadolu Agency provides wire news service,
an image library, news graphics, and video. Its
mandate is to provide news of Turkey and the
Turkish government to the rest of the world.[6] It
broadcasts in Turkish, English, Arabic, French,
Kurdish (Kurmanci and Sorani), Bosnian, Croatian
and Serbian, Russian, Macedonian, Albanian and
Persian, and has a network of reporters in 86
countries. The products offered are available by
subscription or purchase.

20.  The history of Anadolu Agency (AA) is almost identical to that of the Republic of
Turkey. Having been founded on April 6, 1920, 17 days before the Turkish Grand
National Assembly convened first time, Anadolu Agency helped announce the first
legislation by the Assembly that established the Republic. Anadolu Agency
witnessed all stages of the National Struggle, the War of Liberation and reforms of
the Republic.
 After Istanbul came under occupation on March 16, 1920 and the Ottoman
parliament was annulled, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk called on all provinces to hold
elections for a new parliament to be established in Ankara. Several intellectuals,
who realized that they could not stay in Istanbul any longer, tried to join the
National Struggle. This development paved the way for foundation of Anadolu
Agency.
 Those intellectuals leaving Istanbul went to Ankara in two convoys. The journalist
Yunus Nadi (Abalioglu) and the writer Halide Edip (Adivar) met in Geyve on March
31st. During their meeting at the train station, they decided that it was necessary
to found "an agency organization" in Ankara as soon as possible. They agreed to
name the agency as "Anadolu Agency".


21.  It was proposed to establish Anadolu Agency at the "School of
Agriculture" which also housed Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's
headquarters. On April 6th, 1920, Anadolu Agency was founded.
Anadolu Agency carried out a difficult task during the War of
Liberation. During the war, Anadolu Agency informed the people
of the country who did not know what was going on in the rest of
the world. AA also struggled against submissive attitude of some
foreign and Turkish newspapers in Istanbul. The newly founded
agency also had to defend the National Struggle in the world,
inform the world public opinion on Turkey's rightful demands
and act carefully against tricks of some circles.
After Ataturk assigned some of his closest friends to turn the
Anadolu Agency into a Western news agency, Anadolu Agency
Corporation was established on March 1, 1925. Anadolu Agency
acquired an autonomous status with an unexampled
organizational chart even in the Western countries in those days.

22.  The Saudi Press Agency is the official news agency of Saudi Arabia.
 The SPA is under the responsibility of the ministry of culture and
information and therefore, its president directly reports to the
minister. The SAP provides the newspapers with a guideline, the editorial
line, which should be followed in their reports.The Agency publishes
news in both Arabic and English. The SPA has offices
in Bonn, Cairo, London, Tunis and Washington, DC.
 In late May 2012, the Saudi Council of Ministers made a decision to
separate Saudi Television and Radio and Saudi Press Agency (SPA),
making both as two independent corporations.
 Under the May 2012 restructuring, the SPA covers events and issues at
national, regional and international levels, especially those related to the
Kingdom and contribute to strengthening the journalistic profession in
the country. The new arrangement also involves the transformation of
the SPA into a Presidency. The president is Abdullah bin Fahd Al
Hussein. The minister of culture and information acts as the board
chairman of the agency.
 In November 2013, the SPA signed a news exchange agreement
with Anadolu Agency, official news agency of Turkey.

23.  Emirates News Agency also known as WAM, is the official news
agency of the United Arab Emirates.
 The agency has Arabic and English news services and has a
website in both languages. In addition to its national offices, it
has offices
in Cairo, Beirut, Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad.It is
a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council news agencies, the
Federation of Arab News Agencies, the International Islamic
News Agency, the Pool of Non-Aligned News agencies[6] and of
the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).
 The agency has cooperation and news exchange agreements
with various news agencies, including the Sudan News Agency,
the Malaysian National News Agency, the Russian News Agency,
the Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, the Kuwait News Agency,
the Jordanian News Agency, the Indonesian News Agency, and
the Yemeni News Agency. Since 2012 the agency has also been
in cooperation with the official Turkish news agency, Anadolu
Agency.