News agencies

1. By : MAHNOOR BAQAI

2.  News Agency
 2 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 A news agency is an organization that
 gathers News reports and sells them to
 subscribing news organizations, such
 as newspapers, magazines radio and television
 broadcasters.
 A news agency may also be referred to as a wire
 service, newswire, or news service.

3.  National Agencies Of
 Pakistan
 3 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 APP
 PPI
 INP
 SABAH
 NNI
 ANN
 ONLINE

4.  APP
 4 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a
 government-operated national News agency of
 Pakistan.
 APP started its life in 1947 with the independence
 of Pakistan. Initially it was run through a Trust, but
 owing to financial bottlenecks, it was taken over
 by the Government through an Ordinance called;
 “Associated Press of Pakistan (taking over)
 Ordinance 1961″, on 15th June 1961, to put it on
 a sound financial footing.

5.  The app news agency is playing a leading role by
 supplying authentic and credible news to the print
 and electronic media round-the-clock.
 Around one thousand news, over two hundred
 pictures and clean feed of Video News Service
 (VNS) containing important events and
 developments are put on wire daily for onward
 consumption by the media subscribers

6.  PPI
 6 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 Pakistan Press International (PPI) is a news
 Agency founded in June 1956 as Pakistan Press
 Association.
 It was first started by Mr. Muzzam Ali, the Chief
 Editor of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)
 The agency objective was to provide competition
 to APP's monopoly.

7.  7 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 Besides political news, PPI also lays special emphasis on
 the coverage of economic, social, cultural and sports
 news, particularly projection of activities in the rural
 areas. PPI has one of the most extensive coverage of
 rural Pakistan of any media organisation.
 The agency encourages news of social programmes,
 such as human rights, women's empowerment, literacy,
 children's rights, family planning and environmental
 issues.
 The PPI has its bureaus in various cities such as Karachi,
 Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Azad
 Kashmir and that makes is the reliable platform for the
 readers to find out all sorts of news from all sorts of
 sectors

8.  INP
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 Independent News Pakistan (inp) is among the
 Pakistan leaders in online news and information
 delivery.
 Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a
 dedicated staff in INP Capital headquarters in
 Islamabad, and in bureaus Lahore, Peshawar,
 Karachi,Queatta & Azad Kashmir, with more than
 1000 correspondent all our the Pakistan and
 world, INP.net.pk relies heavily on INP's team of
 almost 100 news professionals.

9.  SABAH
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 SABAH is South Asian Broadcasting Agency.
 Their Mission is ACCURATE AND RELIABLE
 news delivery.
 Head office Islambad
 It provides news coverage and information of
 Pakistan ,kashmir and south Asia.

10.  NNI
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 News Network International (NNI) is a privateoperated
 national news agency of Pakistan.
 It was established in 1992 and headquartered in
 G-7 zero point, Islamabad
 It have also offices in other major cities of
 Pakistan
 including Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar
 It provide services in both
 languages Urdu and English

11.  ANN
 11 Sunmitted By: Hareem Shahid
 The Asia News Network (ANN) is a network of 22
 media groups in Asian cities, organized to provide
 avenues for cooperation and to optimize
 coverage of major news events in the region.
 With the goal of improving coverage of Asian
 affairs by Asian media, ANN was born.
 ANN’s main activities are daily exchanges of
 news, photos and a host of other collaborations.

12.  ONLINE
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 Online pioneered-and continues to be the only
 news agency to operate-photo service in Pakistan
 It is the only Pakistani media organization that
 processes information in a substantially nonepaper
 environment.
 After attaining the status of a credible and most
 subscribed news/photo service provider in
 Pakistan, They later launched English/Arabic
 news and pictures service for daily, weekly and
 monthly publications across the globe.

13.  SOME NATIONAL AGENCIES OF
 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
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 PTI (India)
 BERNAMA (Malaysia)
 XINGHUA (China)
 WAM(UAE)
 ATARTAS (Russia)
 Sputnik (Russia)
 IRNA (Iran)
 SANA (Syria)
 AAP (Australia)
 KCNA (Korea)
 BSS (Bangladesh)

14.  SOME INTERNATIONAL
 NEWS AGENCIES
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 AFP (France + Worldwide)
 REUTERS (England+ worldwide)
 AP (America+ Worldwide)

15.  AFP (France + Worldwide)
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 Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news
 agency headquartered in Paris, France.
 Founded in 1944
 AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, in-depth
 coverage of the events shaping our world from wars
 and conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment and the
 latest breakthroughs in health, science and
 technology
 AFP is the third largest news agency in the world,
 after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.
 With 2,900 journalists spread across almost every
 country
 AFP covers the world 24 hours a day in six
 languages, in video, text, photos, graphics and
 multimedia.

16.  REUTERS (England+ worldwide)
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 Reuters is an international news
 agency headquartered in Canary
 Wharf, London, England, United Kingdom and is
 a division of Thomson Reuters
 It was established in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter
 Until 2008, the Reuters news agency formed part of
 an independent company, Reuters Group plc, which
 was also a provider of financial market data. Since the
 acquisition of Reuters Group by the Thomson
 Corporation in 2008, the Reuters news agency has
 been a part of Thomson Reuters, making up the
 media division
 Reuters transmits news in English, French , Arabic
 Spanish
 German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Ko
 rean, Urdu, and Chinese.

17.  AP (America+ Worldwide)
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 The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news
 agency headquartered in New York City that operates as
 a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its
 contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United
 States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written
 by its staff journalists. Their teams in over 100 countries tell the world’s
 stories, from breaking news to investigative reporting.
 Established in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to
 share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War by
 boat, horse express and telegraph
 As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by
 more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television
 and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of
 over 10 million images.