3. (APP)
• Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a government-operated national news agency of Pakistan.[1] 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 AgreemenBesides
its head office in Islamabad, APP maintains five bureaus at Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar Quetta and Rawalpindi
and seven news centres at Sukkur, Multan, Quetta, Faisalabad, Larkana, Hyderabad, Muzaffarabad and now
Gilgit-Baltistan .
The editorial function of any news agency is the same as that of a newspaper i.e. it is divided between reporting
teams and the news desk. In smaller centres, the editorial staff consists of a reporter and sub-editor. The reporting
team is composed of about reporters, responsible for specific beats such as economy, sports, crime, national and
provincial assemblies or major government departments. These news desks are responsible for copy-writing and for
coordinating activities of the reporting team. They also handle press releases of government information and private
organisations including national and international NGOs, embassies and foreign mission
• ts with 37 Foreign News Agencies and more than 500 correspondents
4. (PPI)
• 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)
NNI News or News Network International (NNI) is a private-operated
national news agency of Pakistan.[1] 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.[2] 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. (SABAH)
• The Saba News Agency (SABAH) also known as the Yemen News Agency, is the
official state news agenc ABA was founded on 16 November 1970 as the official news
agency of north Yemen, and is headquartered in the capital Sana'a. On 22 May 1990
the agency was merged with the Aden News Agency (ANA) of South Yemen to create
the Yemen News Agency Saba The agency provides news on the Middle East and
region. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA). On 19
January 2015, the Houthis seized the agency.[ The agency then split into two factions:
one pro-Hadi, the other pro-Houth
• y of Yemen.
7. (INP)
• The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by
newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1 Established two years after Hearst-
competitor E.W. Scripps combined three smaller syndicates under his control into United Press
Associations,[2] INS battled the other major newswires. It added a picture service, International News
Photos, or INP. The Hearst newsreel series Hearst Metrotone News (1914–1967) was released
as International Newsreel from January 1919 to July 1929. Always a distant third to its larger rivals
the Associated Press and the United Press, INS was merged with UP on May 24, 1958, to
become UPI.
• New York City's all-news radio station, WINS, then under Hearst ownership, took its call letters from
INS,[3] as did the short-lived (1948–49), DuMont Television Network nightly newscast, I.N.S. Telenews.
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8. (ANNA)
• Abkhazian Network News Agency (more commonly known as ANNA News) is an Abkhazian news agency ANNA
was officially registered as mass media in the Republic of Abkhazia on 18 July 2011.[2] It was founded and is led by
Marat Musin, a specialist in financial intelligence who lectures at Moscow State University and teaches at
the Russian State University of Trade and Economics.[1]
• ANNA publishes news in the Russian language and it is known for sending war reporters to places like Syria, where
they filmed with Syrian Arab Army and took part in their operations against rebels.[3] It has been known for publishing
footage recorded directly from Syrian Army tanks.According to The Moscow Times, it has a 'forceful pro-Assad slantIt
has also its channel on YouTube, which as of May 2014 had over 30 million views.[] In January 2013, a Russian
judge from Belgorod, Sergey Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, was shot in the face and arm while accompanying the crew
of ANNA News as it reported on a unit of the Syrian Army fighting rebel forces in the Damascus suburb
of Darayya. In November 2013, ANNA News driver was killed by an enemy sniper while they were passing
by Harasta city north-east of Damascus More recently, it has done reports about the Ukrainian crisis, including live
video reports.
9. (ONLINE)
• An online newspaper is the online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online
version of a printed periodical.
• Going online created more opportunities for newspapers, such as competing with broadcast journalism in
presenting breaking news in a more timely manner. The credibility and strong brand recognition of well-established
newspapers, and the close relationships they have with advertisers, are also seen by many in the newspaper
industry as strengthening their chances of survival.[1] The movement away from the printing process can also help
decrease costs.
• Online newspapers are much like hard-copy newspapers and have the same legal boundaries, such as laws
regarding libel, privacy and copyright,[2] also apply to online publications in most countries, such as in the UK. Also in
the UK the Data Protection Act applies to online newspapers and news pages,[3] as well as the PCC rules in the UK.
But the distinction was not very clear to the public in the UK as to what was a blog or forum site and what was an
online newspaper. In 2007, a ruling was passed to formally regulate UK based online newspapers, news audio, and
news video websites covering the responsibilities expected of them and to clear up what is, and what isn't, an online
publication
11. (PTI)
• Press Trust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in India. It is
headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperativeamong
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.
12. (WAM)
• The WAM was launched in November 1976 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 CounciThe 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.[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 Agenc
13. (BARNAMA)
• 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.
14. (XINHUA)
• 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 c The Xinhua press agency was started in November 1931 as the Red China News Agency and
changed to its current name in 1937.[2] During the Pacific War the agency developed overseas broadcasting
capabilities and established its first overseas branches.[2] It began broadcasting to foreign countries in English from
1944. When the communists took power in China, the agency represented the Ch Today, Xinhua News Agency
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. I inese Communist Party in countries and
territories with which it had no diplomatic representation, such as Hong Kong.[2] ontent. 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.
15. (TASS)
• Its origin dates back to December 1902 when it began as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo) under the
Ministry of Finance, with Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta's staff being the main supplier of journalists. As the demand for non-business began
during the first battles of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, the agency had to change its name to the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency
(SPTA). As there was no change of headquarters and almost no change in its staff and function, it was a mere rebranding. In August 1914, one day
after St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd, SPTA was renamed the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA). It was seized by Bolsheviks in November
1917 and by December was renamed as the Central Information Agency of the Soviet Russian Council of People's Commissars'.
• On September 7, 1918 the government presidium resolved to rename PTA and the Press bureau into the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA).
ROSTA became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Sociali On July 10, 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)
was founded and took over the main functions of the Russian Telegraph Agency as the central information agency of the country. TASS enjoyed
"exclusive right to gather and distribute information outside the Soviet Union, as well as the right to distribute foreign and domestic information within
the Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics". TASS comprised news agencies of all the Soviet
republics: RATAU (Ukraine), BELTA (Byelorussia), UZTAG (Uzbekistan), KAZTAG (Kazakhstan), GRUZINFORM (Georgia), AZERINFORM
(Azerbaijan), ELTA (Lithuania), ATEM (Moldavia), LATINFORM (Latvia), KIRTAG (Kirghizia), TAJIKTA (Tajikistan), ARMENPRESS (Armenia),
TURKMENINFORM (Turkmenistan), ETA (Estonia). TASS news and photos were received by 4,000 Soviet newspapers, TV and radio stations and
over a thousand foreign media outlets. The news agency ran one of the biggest networks of correspondents in the world - 682 offices in the country
and 94 bureaus abroad, and employed close to 2,000 journalists and photo correspondents st Federative Soviet Republic".
16. (IRNA)
• 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 count n 1934, Pars Agency was established by the
Foreign Ministry of Iran (Persia) as the country's official national news outlet.[2] For the next six years it operated
under the Iranian Foreign Ministry working to disseminate national and international news. Pars Agency published a
bulletin twice daily in French and Persian, which it circulated among government officials, international news
agencies in Tehran and the local press. In May 1940, the General Tablighat Department was founded and the agency
then became an affiliate of the department. Agence France Press (AFP) was the first international news agency
whose reports Pars Agency used. Gradually, the Iranian news agency expanded its sources of news stories to
include those of Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI). An agreement with
the Anatolia News Agency of Turkey further expanded the agency's news outlets to countries worldwide. The link-up
also enabled it to provide classified bulletins to a limited number of high-ranking public officials. ries around the world
17. (SANA)
• The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic: لألنباء السورية العربية الوكالة Al-
Wakālah al-'Arabīyah as-Sūrīyah al-'Anbā) is a news agency in Syria. It is
a public-owned media organization linked to the Ministry of Information. It was
established in Jun SANA launched its website in 1997.[3] 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. e 1965
19. (REUTOR)
• 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, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Urdu, and Chinese. It
was established in 1851. The Reuter agency was established in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter in Britain at the London
Royal Exchange. Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical
pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in
1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on in
order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen. The Reuter's Telegram Company was later launched.
The company initially covered commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and business firms.
20. (AFP)
• 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.
• Established as a state enterprise, AFP devoted the post-war years to developing its network of international
correspondents. One of them was the first Western journalist to report the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on
March 6, 1953. AFP was keen to shake off its semi-official status, and on January 10, 1957 the French
Parliament passed a law establishing its independence. Since that date, the proportion of the agency's revenues
generated by subscriptions from government departments has steadily declined. Such subscriptions represented 115
million Euros in 2011
21. (AP)
• 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.
