News agencies of world

1. “News Agencies”
Submitted by FOUZIA ARMANI
BS III Fifth semester
JINNAH UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN, KARACHI

2. NEWS AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN
• APP ASSOCIATED PRESS PAKISTAN
• PPI PAKISTAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL
• NNI NEWS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
• INP INDEPENDENT NEWS PAKISTAN

3. • It was started in 1947
• Initially it was under a trust control but later
Government of Pakistan through an ordinance ,
ordinance 1961 on 15 June 1961.
• App later was converted into corporation on
October 19 2002 through an ordinance renaming
it as associated press of Pakistan corporation
(APPC)

4. HIGHLIGHTS
• District based network
• Urdu,pashto,sindhi balochi ,saraiki and Arabic.
• National, sports, business,forex,weather & world news.
• Textual news feed, audio & video.
• Documentaries, web content ,special reports.
• International correspondents are based in
Washigton,New York ,London , Beijing and New Delhi.
• APP has new correspondent exchange with 37 other
foreign agencies and more than 500 correspondents.

5. • It was founded in June 1956 as Pakistan press
association (PPA).
• The name was changed in 1968.
• It was started by Mr. Muzzam chief editor of APP.
• In 1957 it signed up with Agency France Press for
foreign news.
• In 1958 it become the first Asian partner of DPA

6. HIGHLIGHTS
• Its main objective was to break the monopoly of
APP.
• In 1958, the agency installed teleprompters in its
clients offices.
• By 1960 PPI had subscribers in all major
newspapers centers of Pakistan namely Karachi,
lahore,rawal pindi and Islamabad.
• PPI has posted a correspondent in Middle east an
area of special interest to Pakistani newspaper.

7. • NNI named as News network international.
• Its an private new agency of Pakistan
• It was established in 1992
• Its headquarter is in G-7 Islamabad.
• It has its headquarter in other major cities of
Pakistan i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and
Peshawar.

8. HIGHLIGHTS
• It is the most prominent news agency after
APP.
• It’s a big competitor of ONLINE,ANN,INN,PPA
and SABAH.
• It has 100+ reporters across the country.
• It provides service in english and urdu.

9. • INP stands for independent news Pakistan
• Its an prominent news agency of Pakistan.
• Its capital headquarter is in Islamabad.
• It has more than 1000 correspondents in
karachi,lahore,peshawar,quetta ,Kashmir an
outside Pakistan.

10. HIGHLIGHTS
• inp.net.pk is among the leading new and
information delivery agency.
• It has a team of more than 100 news
professional.
• It posses the most latest technologies, to
searchable archives of new features and
background information.
• The site is continuously updated throughout
the day.

11. • SABAH stands for south Asian broadcasting
agency.
• Its accurate and reliable.
• Its chief in editor is Mr. Shakil Ahmed Turabi.
• It’s a public company.

12. • ANN Asian news network
• It was founded in 1999 with seven members.
• Its a network of 22 media groups in Asian
cities.
• ANN is headquartered at the offices of the
nation multimedia group in Bangkok.

13. HIGHLIGHTS
• In addition to a website, it produces a weekly
digital news magazine named ASIA NEWS HD.
• Its objective is to organized to provide
avenues for corporation and to optimize
coverage of major news and events.

14. • OINN online international news network
• Its one of the leading news & photos provider
in Pakistan.
• Its Pakistanis first bilingual news and photo
wire service.
• OINN is different from contemporary news
agency in Pakistan.

15. HIGHLIGHTS
• It is the first ever Pakistani news agency
operating in English and Urdu simultaneously.
• It covers national and international photos.
• It is said that OINN is the most credible and
independent source of information of
Pakistan.
• Its radio and electronic media are state
owned.

16. • UPP united press of Pakistan limited.
• It is the first private sector news agency of
Pakistan established in 1948.
• It is a “pictorial news review” famous among
the diplomats of Pakistan since 1970.
• Its chairmen and founder is Syed abdul hafeez.
• Its managing director is Muhammed Aziz.
• Executive editor is Sohela Aziz.

17. HIGHLIGHTS
• It provides news service in English and Urdu
through fax to major through
english,urdu,sindhi and also Guajarati
newspaper of Pakistan at negotiated rate.
• It also provide token news service to
government of Pakistan, ministry of
information and broadcasting and the sindh
information department, government of
sindh.

18. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES
• AFP
• REUTERS
• AP
• PTI
• BERNAMA
• KYODO
• XINHUA

19. • WAM
• TASS
• IRNA
• SANA

20. • AFP Agency France press
• It was founded by Charles Louis harves in
1944.
• Its headquarter is in paris,france.
• It is the biggest news agency of France and lies
in worlds top three news agency.
• It provides wire service.
• Its number of employees are 2260.

21. HIGHLIGHTS
• In September 2007, the AFP foundation was
launched to promote higher standards of
journalism world wide.
• The foundation aim is to give training for the
betterment of journalism across the globe.
• It also hosts debates on the freedom of the
press, ethics and working conditions for
journalist.
• Its is operated independently.

22. • It’s a top international news agency of the world.
• Its headquarter is in canary, wharf
london,England.
• It was founded in 1851,october.
• It is a division of Thomas Reuters.
• Its CEO is Stephen J Adhere.

23. HIGHLIGHTS
• Until 2008, the Reuters news agency formed part of an
independent company Reuters group plc which was
also a provider of financial market data.
• After the acquisition of Reuters group by the Thomson
corporation in 2008 the Reuters news agency has been
a part of Thomas refuter making up the media division.
• Reuters transmit news in
english,spanish,arabic,french,german,italian,portugese,
urdu and Chinese.
• The Reuters news agency employs 2500 journalist and
600 photojournalist in about 200 location worldwide.

24. • Associated press is an American non profit news
agency.
• Its headquarter is in new York .
• It was founded in 22 may 1846.
• It provide service worldwide.
• Its key people are Mary junch and jarry Pruitt.
• Its number of employees are 3200
• Its website is www.ap.org

25. HIGHLIGHTS
• It provides wire service across the globe.
• Its annual revenue is around 568.13 million.
• Many news agencies have been subscribed to
AP outside the United states.
• AP is a co operative owned by its contributing
newspaper and radio and television stations in
united station.

26. • PTI named as press trust of India.
• It is the largest news agency of India.
• It was founded in 27 august 1947.
• Its key people are Riyadh Mathew.
• Its headquarter is in new Delhi
• It has more than 1000 employees.
• Its website is www.pti.news.com

27. HIGHLIGHTS
• PTI is a non profit cooperative among more
than 500 Indian newspapers and has more
than 1000 full time employees.
• A few correspondents located in most of the
districts headquarter in country.
• It provides news coverage and information in
both English and Hindi.
• It exchange news information with more than
100 news agencies outside India.

28. • BERNAMA it is a national news agency of Malaysia.
• It was founded in 1968, 20 march.
• BERNAMA is abbreviated as barite nasional Malaysia.
• BERNAMA also meaned named or titled in the Malay.
• Its key people are datuk zulkefi, datuk zulkaria abdul
wahab, Mr. zukimen ahmed.
• Its website is www.bernama.com

29. HIGHLIGHTS
• Being the Malaysian governments official
news agency bernamas content are pro
government.
• It is an autonomous body placed under the
ministry of communication and multimedia.
• BERNAMA operates from its headquarter at
Wisma Bernama.

30. • KYODO is a non profit news agency of TOKYO.
• Its headquarter is in Minato, Tokyo Japan.
• It was established in November 1945.
• Their online news site is in Japanese,
chinese,korean and English.
• The agency employees more than 1000 journalist
and photographers.
• Satoshi Ishikawa is its president.

31. HIGHLIGHTS
• KYODO distributes its news to almost all
newspapers and radio and television in Japan.
• The newspapers using its news have about 50
million subscribers.
• K.K KYODO NEW’S business arm established in
1972 .
• The subdivision KYODO NEWS INTERNATIONAL
was founded in 1982.
• It provides over 200 news reports to international
news media located in Rockefeller Center, NYC.

32. • XINHUA is a official news agency of peoples republic of
china.
• It is the biggest and influential news agency of china.
• Its former name was Red china news agency.
• It was founded in 1931.
• It covers the globe.
• It’s a state owned news agency.
• Its website is www.xinhua.newsagency.com

33. HIGHLIGHTS
• XINHUA is a ministry level institution subordinate to
the Chinese's central government.
• Its president is the member of the central committee
of china's communist party.
• XINHUA operated more than 170 foreign bureau
worldwide.
• It also maintain 31 bureau in china one in each
province.
• XINUA is a sole channel for distributing news and
information about the communist party.
• Every newspaper relied on XINUA for feeds and
content.

34. • WAM is the most prominent news agency of
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
• It was launched in 1976.
• Jamal Nasser Al Suwaider is its chief editor.
• it started its Arabic broadcast in June 1977 and
English broadcast in December 1978 .
• Its headquarter is in Abu Dhabi.
• It is a part of national media group of UAE.

35. HIGHLIGHTS
• WAM provides news service in Arabic and
English.
• Its website is also in English as well as Arabic.
• It also have its news offices in
beirut,cairo,washighton,sanaa,brussel and
Islamabad.
• It is a member of gulf cooperation council news
agencies, the federation of Arab news agencies,
the international Islamic news agency, the pool of
non aligned news agencies.
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36. • TASS is a major news agency of Russia.
• It was founded in 1902 December.
• Its headquarter is in Moscow.
• It provides wire service.
• Its owner is wholly owned by federal
government.
• Its website is www.tass.com.

37. HIGHLIGHTS
• TASS is the largest news agency of Russia and fourth
largest news agency of world.
• It has 70 offices and 68 bureaus around the world.
• TASS is the federal state unitary enterprise.
• In 1925 the telegraph agency of soviet union was
founded and took over the main functions of Russian
telegraph agency as the central news agency of Russia.
• TASS is a media partner of all high profile conferences
,forums and exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

38. • IRNA is the official news agency of Islamic
republic of Iran.
• It is a government funded and control
organization.
• Its key people are Mohammed khodadi.
• It was launched on 13 November 1934.
• Its former name was pars news agency.
• Its official website was www.irna.ir

39. HIGHLIGHTS
• The agency also has its newspaper IRAN.
• IRNA has 60 offices in Iran and 30 more in
various countries.
• IRNA cooperatives with leading international
and regional news agencies of the world.
• In 1934, pars news agency was established as
the official news agency of Iran .

40. • SANA known as Syrian Arab news agency
• It was launched in June 1965
• It provides news service in
arabic,engish,hebrew,turkish,chinese,russian
and Persian.
• It is public owned media organization linked to
the ministry of information .

41. HIGHLIGHTS
• SANA launched its website in 1997.
• Until 2002 its website was hosted in Dallas,
Texas by the united states company soflayer
due to sanction related to civil war in Syria, it
make the hostility illegal and the softlayer
company was obligated to terminate its
hosting responsibilities with SANA.

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