2.  A news agency is an organization that
gathers news reports and sells them to
subscribing news organizations, such
as newspapers, magazines and radio and
television broadcasters.
 A news agency may also be referred to as
a wire service, newswire, or news service.

3.  APP
 PPI
 INP
 SABAH
 NNI
 ANN
 OINN
 SHARP EYE
 UPP
 APNS

4.  The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) started its life in 1947
with the independence of Pakistan.
 Five new stations including Sialkot, Abbotabad, Sargodha,
D.I.Khan and Bahawalpur have been set up by APP besides
expanding the network of the District Correspondents to ensure
extensive coverage of political, economic and social activities at
the grassroots level.
 The 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.
 The number of news reports, released to the National Media
daily in English, Urdu, Sindhi and Pushto languages have
recorded significant improvement with complete domination over
all other news agencies in the country.

5.  it was launched in 1956
 The PPI has its bureaus in various cities such as Karachi, Islamabad,
Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Azad Kashmir.
 PPI is considered as the active member of the Council of Pakistan
Newspaper Editors, the organization of Asia- Pacific News Agencies
and the Asia Net Consortium.
 Since the beginning of its career, the “PPI” has been the reliable
source of publishing news of all kinds to its readers of different kinds
PPI has not limited itself to only cover political news; in fact, it also
covers the economic, social and cultural and sports news specifically
from the rural areas of Pakistan as we believe that the news from rural
areas also deserves projection.
 The “PPI” is the trustworthy name for international media to find out the
ever-changing events from all the sectors of Pakistan and of the
region.

6.  INP.net.pk 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.
INP.net.pk features the latest technologies, to
searchable archives of news features and
background information. The site is updated
continuously throughout the day.

7.  South Asian Broadcasting Ageny is reliable
and accurate.
 Chief Editor is Shakil Ahmed Turabi.
 It is a Public company.

8.  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.

9.  HISTORY:
 The networking of news paper in Asia was first dicussed
informally by Asian editors who participated in the first Asian-
German Editors' Forum organized by the Konrad Adenauer
Foundation in Manila. Encouraged buy the Forum’s success and
the warm fellowship among them, the editors decided to peruse
a more permanent professional and business relationship. With
the goal of improving coverage of Asian affairs by Asian media,
ANN was born.
 The Asia News Network(ANN)is one of the world’s biggest
media alliances. Founded in 1999 with seven member’s, ANN
now comprises 21 leading media, mostly leading national
English-language daily, from South, Southeast and Northeast
Asia. ANN’s main activities are daily exchanges of news, photos
and a host of other collaborations.

10.  It is Pakistan’s leading news and photo agency.
 OINN is different from contemporary Pakistani news
agencies in many ways. There has been a very strong
feeling in the outside world that there is no credible and
independent source of information in Pakistan, chiefly
because the electronic media, including radio and
television networks are state-owned.
 This is Pakistan's first bilingual news and photo wire
service, dedicated to issues that are neglected by the
mainstream media.
 Online is the first-ever Pakistani news agency operating
English and Urdu news services simultaneously along with
comprehensive national and international photo coverage.

11.  Sharp Eye is Pakistan's independent international news
agency established on January 3rd, 2000. With the aim to
provide true news to T.V channels, national as well as
international newspapers on modern lines following the
modern and latest standards; “Sharp Eye” is working
under the supervision of its founder Mian Muhammad
Azhar Amin. He is renowned Journalist of Pakistan and
has the experience of working for Pakistani as well as
foreign Newspapers, News Agencies and a TV Channel as
reporter, anchor, editor and Chief Editor. In the light of his
experiences he felt the need for the establishment of an
independent news agency that could be a source for
presenting true news to media all over the world in
different languages.

12.  UPP(United Press of Pakistan,Ltd is located
at Abdullah Haroon Road in Karachi.UPP is
involving in publishing, printing of books and
other corporate promotional materials.

13.  The All Pakistan Newspapers Society is a premier body of newspapers publishers, which has
been headed by such august personalities as Mr.Hamid Nizami , Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman , Mian
Iftekharuddin , Mr. Fakhre Matri , Mr.Hamid Mahmood, Mr. Yousuf Haroon, Mr. Mahmood
Haroon, Mr. A.G. Mirza, Kazi Mohammad Akber , Mr. Munawar Hidayet Ullah, Mr.
K.M.Hamid Ullah and Mr. Anwarul Islam of Pakistan Observer Dacca.
 The Pakistan Newspapers Society, a precursor to the APNS, was established in 1950, primarily
due to the efforts of the late Messrs Hameed Nizami and Hamid Mahmood. It functioned for a
number of years but could not receive much support or recognition either from the publishers
and advertising agencies in general and the authorities in power in particular. Publishers'
organizations also functioned in East Pakistan and Karachi but these provincial bodies could
not effectively represent the interests of the newspaper industry.
 In the year 1953, it was decided to form the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, merging all the
existing groups of publishers. It was also decided to establish the headquarters of this
organization at Karachi, as at that time the majority of the major publications originated from
there. It took some time to be organized on a professional basis. A rented premises for the office
was obtained in Farid Chambers, from where it continues to function, paid staff was hired, etc.
The organization expanded rapidly with the inclusion of new members from all over the
country and was soon able to call itself the ALL PAKISTAN NEWSPAPERS SOCIETY.

14.  PTI
 XINCHUA
 RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY
 SPUNTIK
 IRNA
 SANA
 QNA
 UPI
 BELTA
 YONHAP

15.  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 specialised presses, research groups, companies, and government
and non-governmental organisations.
PTI correspondents are also based in leading capitals and important business
and administrative centres 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.

16.  Xinhua News Agency, Pinyin Xinhuashe, Wade-Giles Romanization Hsin-hua she, also called New
China News Agency, news agency of China founded in 1931 as the press outlet of the Chinese
Communist Party. It was first set up in the Red Army-controlled area in Jiangxi province and in the
mid-1930s was moved to Yan’an. The agency is now headquartered in Beijing and has offices around
the world. Xinhua has domestic and international services for Chinese and non-Chinese media. Like
most of the news media in China, it operates under governmental control, and its releases reflect
official policies and promote state programs. These strictures were greatly tightened in the 1960s
during the Cultural Revolution, when many Chinese journalists were jailed for deviating from its
standards,
 The Xinhua 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. 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 amilitary 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 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.

17.  Russian News Agency TASS 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 Agency France-Press (AFP).
 Tass is owned by the Government of Russia. 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.

 The St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA), the first official news agency of Russia and the
predecessor of ITAR-TASS, began to operate on September 1, 1904.
 The creation of the agency was initiated by the Finance, Interior and Foreign Ministries. On July 4,
1904 a meeting of representatives of the ministries empowered "to consider issues concerning the
project of a government telegraph agency" adopted the basic documents for the creation and
operation of SPTA.
 The project to launch SPTA was approved by last Russian Tsar Nicholas the Second. The agency had
to "report within the Empire and abroad political, financial, economic, trade and other data of public
interest". Three directors, one from each of the Finance, Interior and Foreign Ministries, comprised
the panel that managed the agency.
 On December 31, 1909 the agency was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers upon a
submission of Prime Minister Petr Stolypin.
 In September 2014 the agency returned to its former and world-famous name for delivering news to
global audiences - simply titled TASS. Rebranding the oldest news agency in Russia is destined to
become a symbol of professionalism, enthusiasm, readiness of its team for personal development and
the agency’s bid to preserve and develop its best traditions.

18.  Sputnik is a news agency, news websites 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. It focuses on global
politics and economics and is geared entirely towards a non-Russian
audience.Sputnik has been widely accused of bias, disinformation and being
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. Alongside its news content, Sputnik also sells
other products including photo essays, live streaming, infographics,
and public opinion surveys.
 Sputnik News is a successor to Russian state-owned RIA Novosti's
international branch, which became defunct in 2013.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.

19.  The Islamic Republic News Agency 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.
 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
corporations with IRNA as a member, as well as monitor and program
activities of its branches.

20.  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is a news agency in Syria. It is
a public-owned media organization linked to the Ministry of Information. It
was established in June 1965.
 SANA launched its website in 1997. Up until November 2012, SANA's website
was hosted in Dallas, Texas by the United States company Soft Layer. Due to
sanctions related to the Syrian Civil War, which make this hosting illegal, the
Soft Layer company was obliged to terminate its hosting responsibilities with
SANA.
 The Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, is Syria’s public international news
organization. SANA has not only covered the civil war in the country, but also
its nightlife, tourism and other cultural aspects.
 SANA attempts to show an alternative view of what life is like in Syria's
government-controlled areas - cities like Damascus and Tartus. The agency's
English-language Twitter account provides a look into aspects of Syrian
cultural life among young people. It also provides coverage of President
Bashar al-Assad's government.
 SANA was established in 1965, and according to its website, it "provides full
coverage of local, Arab and international events based on an objective
approach." It is headquartered in the country's capital, Damascus, and
considers itself to be one of the "most pioneering news websites in Syria."

21.  Qatar News Agency (QNA) was established in May 25th, 1975 by the Emiri
Decree number 94 of the year 1975, to become the second Arab news agency
dedicated to covering news in the Gulf Region and one of Qatar’s big
achievements in the field of information.
 The agency witnessed quantitative and qualitative developments. It started
with a transmission of half an hour a day, now its transmission extends to 24
hours a day. The Emiri Decision issued on 12 September, 2007 organizing the
agency shows the keenness of the political leadership and its interest in rising
media awareness and consolidating its professionalism in the country.
 The Agency is objective and impartial in its coverage of news. (QNA)’s
presiding over of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) for two years
contributed to consolidating the Arab media which became more developed
thanks to the new technologies it uses.
 QNA is a member of the Arab News Agencies Union (ANAU) and of the
League of the News Agencies of the Non-Alignment Movement.(QNA) is also a
member of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). It is accredited by
(ANAU) to serve as a news dispatching center between these agencies and the
South-East Asian and Pacific News Agencies Union.

22.  United Press International is a leading provider of news,
photos and information to millions of readers around the globe
via UPI.com and its licensing services. With a history of
reliable reporting dating back to 1907, today's UPI is a credible
source for the most important stories of the day, continually
updated - a one-stop site for U.S. and world news, as well as
entertainment, trends, science, health and stunning
photography. UPI also provides insightful reports on key topics
of geopolitical importance, including energy and security. A
Spanish version of the site reaches millions of readers in Latin
America and beyond.
 UPI was founded in 1907 by E.W. Scripps as the United Press
(UP). It became known as UPI after a merger with the
International News Service in 1958, which was founded in
1909 by William Randolph Hearst. Today, UPI is owned by
News World Communications. It is based in Washington, DC,
and Boca Raton, Florida.

23.  The Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA) is Belarus’ largest news agency. For over 95
years BelTA has been the country’s official news agency and is the most respected source
of up-to-the-minute news about Belarus’ supreme authorities. BelTA was established on
23 December 1918. For a long time the news agency worked in tight cooperation with
the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). In 1991 BelTA became the official news
agency of the sovereign Republic of Belarus.
Every day BelTA produces and distributes 150-170 news items to highlight the most
important events in the political, social, economic, cultural, and sport life of Belarus,
news about actions and decisions of the country’s authorities, about international
relations and contacts. Every day BelTA’s photo service produces over 100 photos from
all the regions of Belarus. BelTA has offices and staff reporters in all the oblast capitals
of Belarus and Moscow. The news agency caters to over 700 customers across the globe.
BelTA is one of the most quoted news agencies in the Commonwealth of Independent
States by the number of citations in international mass media. The Belarusian Telegraph
Agency is a diversified enterprise. BelTA publishes the 7 Dnei news and analysis weekly,
the quarterly Economy of Belarus in Russian and English, and Belaruskaya Dumka, the
monthly magazine that examines politics, culture, policy, and ideas. Apart from that,
BelTA publishes books, booklets, posters, and offers printing industry services. BelTA
offers development, maintenance and informational support, promotion (optimization)
of websites for government agencies, companies and institutions.

24.  Yonhap News Agency is South Korea’s largest news agency. It is a publicly funded
company, based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and
other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea.
 Yonhap (meaning "united" in Korean) was established on December 19, 1980, through
the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. It maintains various
agreements with 78 non-Korean news agencies, and also has a services-exchange
agreement with North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) agency, signed in
2002.It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies, and
provides a limited, but freely available, selection of news on its website in Korean,
English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and French.
 Yonhap was the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, and was elected
twice to the board of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).Yonhap is
South Korea's only news agency large enough to have more than 60 correspondents
abroad and 580 reporters across the nation. Its largest shareholder is the Korea News
Agency Commission (KONAC).
 In 2003, the South Korean government passed a law giving financial and systematic
assistance to the agency, to reinforce staff and provide equipment. In the legislation, it
was also been given the role of “promoting the country's image” to an international
audience. The head of the Yonhap agency is usually affiliated with the government,
which critics say harms press freedom and influences news-gathering. However. it is
government affiliation, rather than press laws (which are supportive of press freedom),
which is said to be the cause of any limitations, though the agency does criticize the
government.

25.  AFP
 REUTERS
 AP

26.  (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world, and one of the three largest, together
with Associated Press and Reuters. It is the largest French news agency. Founded by Charles-
Louis Havas (as Agence Havas) to provide news about France to foreign customers, the agency
was suppressed duringGerman occupation in the Second World War. After the liberation
of Paris, journalists from the French Resistance quickly set up the agency as the voice of
liberated France, under the name Agence France-Press Established after the war as a state
enterprise, AFP now operates independently, with its statute demanding that it not be controlled
by any ideological, political, or economic group.
 AFP continues to be based in Paris, with regional centers in Washington, Hong Kong, Nicosia,
and Montevideo as well as bureaus in 110 countries. It transmits news in French, English,
Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Russian. With its "guarantee of excellence"—
editorial quality and reliability, the guiding principle of speed and accuracy, diversity and
dynamism, innovative multimedia products, and a long service tradition—AFP aims to maintain
and strengthen its position as one of the greatest news agencies in the world. With such a vision
comes responsibility, and mere assurance of independence may not be sufficient to succeed; a
standard of excellence in morality, truth, and goodness, is also needed.

27.  Reuters was set up in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born immigrant. He opened an
office in the City of London which transmitted stock market quotations between London and
Paris via the new Calais-Dover cable. Two years earlier he had used pigeons to fly stock prices
between Aachen and Brussels.
 Reuters, as the agency soon became known, eventually extended its service to the whole British
press as well as to other European countries. It also expanded to include general and economic
news from across the world. Its reputation rapidly gained ground thanks to a series of major
scoops.
 The one Reuters journalists love to cite most was in 1865 when the company was first in
Europe with news of US President Lincoln's assassination. Advances in overland telegraphs
and undersea cables allowed the news wire to expand into the far east in 1872 and South
America in 1874. In 1883 Reuters started transmitting messages electrically to London
newspapers and in 1923 it pioneered the use of radio to transmit news internationally. The
new owners, the British national and regional press, formed the Reuters Trust, with
independent trustees who must safeguard the group's independence and neutrality.
 Newspapers bulked ever larger in the Reuters clientele thereafter. The value of Reuters to
newspapers lay not only in the financial news it provided but in its ability to be the first to
report on stories of international importance, as in 1865 when the service broke the news of the
assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln hours before its competitors

28.  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-Press, are based outside the United States.