ITS ALL ABOUT NEWS AGENCIES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

1. NEWS AGENCIES

2. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN

3. APP (ASSOCIATEDPRESS OF PAKISTAN)
• Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a government-operated
national news agency of Pakistan. The name APP should not to be
confused with 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.

4. PPI (PAKISTAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
• Pakistan Press International (PPI[citation needed]) is a news
agency founded in June 1956 as Pakistan Press Association (PPA). The
name was changed in 1968. 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. It began its service by
hand, only in Karachi. PPA also built up a network of correspondents in
the smaller cities and towns in Pakistan. This was in contrast to APP,
which had coverage in a limited number of large cities. For foreign news
the agency signed up with the Agence France-Presse (AFP) in 1957, and a
year later became the first Asian partner of DPA. PPA also posted a
correspondent in the Middle East, an area of special interest to Pakistani
newspapers.
• In 1958, the agency installed the teleprinters in the offices of its clients. By
1960, PPI had subscribers in all the major newspapers centers of Pakistan,
namely Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Dacca.

5. NNI (NEWS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL)
• NNI News or News Network International (NNI) is a private-operated
national news agency of Pakistan. It is a Pakistan's most prominent news agency
after Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) and competitor of INP, ANN, Online, INN,
PPA and SABAH. 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 have hundreds
of reporters, Bureau chief all across the Pakistan and around the globe to cover
national and international issues. It provide services in both
languages Urdu and English. In 2013 NNI's photographer killed in a blast.

6. NATIONALNEWSAGENICIESOF DIFFERENTCOUNTRIES

7. PTI ( PRESS TRUST OF INDIA)
• 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 on the world. It took over the operations of
the Associated Press from Reuters soon after India's independence on
August 15, 1947. 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.

8. WAM (EMIRATES NEWS AGENCY)
• Emirates News Agency (Arabic: ‫االمارات‬ ‫أنباء‬ ‫وكالة‬ ,translit. Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat), also known as
WAM, is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates. The WAM was launched in
November 1976.[3][4] It started Arabic broadcast on 18 June 1977 and English broadcast in
December 1978.[3] The agency which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi[5] is part of National Media
Council.[6]
• The agency has Arabic and English news services and has a website in both languages.[6] In addition
to its national offices, it has offices
in Cairo, Beirut, Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad.[6] It is a member of the Gulf
Cooperation Council news agencies, the Federation of Arab News Agencies,[7] the International
Islamic News Agency, the Pool of Non-Aligned News agencies[6]and of the Organization of Asia-
Pacific News Agencies (OANA).[8]
• 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.[9] Since 2012 the agency has also been in
cooperation with the official Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency.[10]
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9. BERNAMA (MALAYSIA’S AGENCY)
• The Malaysian National News Agency (Malay: Pertubuhan Berita Nasional
Malaysia), abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It
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.
• 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, Bangkok and Beijing and
also its stringers in Washington D.C., New York, Australia and 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.

10. XINHUA (CHINEES NEWS AGENCY)
• The Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: /ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/[1]) is the
official
• press agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua is the biggest and
most influential media organization in China. Xinhua is a ministry-level
institution subordinate to the Chinese central government. 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, plus a military bureau. Xinhua
is the sole channel for the distribution of important news related to the
Communist Party and Chinese central government.
• Xinhua is regarded as the most influential media outlet in China as almost
every newspaper in China relies on Xinhua feeds for content. People's
Daily, for example, uses Xinhua material for approximately 25 percent of
of its stories. Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more
than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it prints in eight
languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese,
Arabic, and Japanese.

11. SPUTNIK ( RUSSIAN’S AGENCY)
• Sputnik (pronounced spʊtnɪk) is a news agency, news websites and radio
• broadcast service established by the Russian government-controlled news
agency Rossiya Segodnya.[2] Headquartered in Moscow, Sputnik has regional editorial
offices in Washington, Cairo, Beijing, London and Edinburgh. It focuses on global
politics and economics and is geared entirely towards a non-Russian
audience.[3] Sputnik has been widely accused of bias, disinformation[4] and being
a Russian propaganda outlet.[5][6]
• 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.[7][8][9] Alongside its news content, Sputnik
also sells other products including photo essays, live streaming, infographics,
and public opinion surveys.[10][11]
• Sputnik News is a successor to Russian state-owned RIA Novosti's international
branch, which became defunct in 2013.[12] Whereas RIA Novosti's output tended to
emanate from a more concentrated base in Moscow, Sputnik's content is drawn from
a number of international bureaux.

12. SANA (SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY)
• The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic: ‫العربية‬ ‫الوكالة‬
‫لألنباء‬ ‫السورية‬ Al-Wakālah al-'Arabīyah as-Sūrīyah al-'Anbā) is a news

13. TASS (RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY)
Russian News Agency TASS (Russian: Информационное агентство России ТАСС, tr.
Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS), abbr. TASS (Russian: ТАСС) is a major news agency in
Russia, founded in 1902. Tass is the largest Russian news agency, and the fourth largest in the world
after Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).[1]
Tass is owned by the Government of Russia.[2] Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, Tass has 70
offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus
around the world. Tass is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.

14. IRNA (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY)
• 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.[1]

15. AAP (AUSTRLIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS)
• Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency. The
organisation was established in 1935 by Keith Murdoch.[1]
• AAP employs more than 175 journalists who work in bureaus in
all Australian states and territories. Its NZ Newswire division includes reporters
in Auckland and Wellington. It also maintains correspondents in Port
Moresby, London, Jakarta and Los Angeles as well as using a network of
contributors from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. AAP's domestic news coverage
is complemented by alliances with the major international news agencies.
• AAP is owned by three Australian news organisations – News Corp
Australia, Fairfax, and Seven West Media. Fairfax owns 47%, News owns 45%,
and Seven West 8%.[2] Together these companies produce the vast majority of
Australian newspapers.
• AAP's main focus is on breaking news, but it also distributes 'soft' news, colour
stories, feature stories, opinion, filler material and photographs.
• The editor-in-chief is Tony Gillies.
• In the 1990s, AAP's telecommunications division was spun off as a telco, AAPT,
and sold to Telecom New Zealand in 2000. It was sold again to TPG Telecom in
2013.

16. CP (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
• The Canadian Press (often abbreviated as CP), known in French as La
Presse Canadienne (PC), is a national news agency headquartered in
Toronto. It was established in 1917[1] as a vehicle to permit Canadian
newspapers of the day to exchange their news and information. For most
of its history, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit
cooperative, owned and operated by its member newspapers. In mid-2010,
however, it announced plans to become a for-profit business owned by
three media companies once certain conditions are met.[2]
• On November 26, 2010, Torstar Corporation, The Globe and
Mail and Square Victoria Communications Group announced that they had
had invested in a new for-profit entity, Canadian Press Enterprises Inc., to
take over the operations of the Canadian Press.[2]
• Over the years, The Canadian Press and its affiliates have adapted to reflect
changes in the media industry, technological change and the growing
appetite for rapid news updates. It currently offers a wide variety of text,
audio, photographic, video[3]and graphic content to websites, radio,
television, and commercial clients in addition to newspapers and its long-
standing ally, The Associated Press (AP), a global news service based in the
United States.

17. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES

18. AFP (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)
• Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news
agency headquartered in Paris, France.
• Founded in 1944,[2][3] AFP is the third largest news agency in the
world, after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters. Journalists of
the French Resistance established the AFP in the headquarters of the
former "Office Français d'Information", a Vichy news agency,
following the liberation of Paris.
• Currently, the CEO is Emmanuel Hoog (fr) and the News Director is
Michèle Léridon.[4] AFP has regional offices
in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C.,
and bureaux in 150 countries. AFP transmits news
in French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.

19. REUTERS
• Reuters /ˈrɔɪtərz/ is an international news
agency headquartered in Canary
Wharf, London, England, United Kingdom and is
a division of Thomson Reuters.
• 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, Portugues
e, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Urdu, and Chinese. It was
established in 1851.

20. AP (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
• 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. Most of the AP staff are union members and are
represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers
of America, which operates under the AFL–CIO.
• 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. The AP operates
243 news bureaus in 120 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which
provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations.
Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying
a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of
their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant
automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs
the "inverted pyramid" formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to
fit its available publication area without losing the story's essentials.
• Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States'
primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos
daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters and the English-
language service of Agence France-Presse, are based outside the United States.

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MADE BY: QURRATULAIN MEHTAB
STUDENT OF MEDIA STUDIES
JINNAH UNIVERSITY OF WOMEN