specific details about news agencies

1. NEWS AGENCIES:
BY:ANUM CHHOTTANI

2. NATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES OF
PAKISTAN:
 ANN
 NNI
 SABAH
 INP
 PPI
 ONLINE NEWS AGENCY
 APP
 UPP
 PPA

3. ANN:
 The Asia News Network (ANN) is one of the world’s
biggest media alliances. Founded in 1999 with seven
members, 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. *The networking of
newspapers in Asia was first discussed informally by
Asian editors who participated in the first Asian-German
Editors' Forum organised by the Konrad Adenauer
Foundation in Manila. Encouraged by the forum’s
success and the warm fellowship among them, the
editors decided to pursue a more permanent
professional and business relationship. With the goal of
improving coverage of Asian affairs by Asian media,
ANN was born.

4. NNI:
 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.

5. SABA:
 SOUTH ASIAN BROADCASTING AGENCY
 Chief aditor is Shakil Ahmed Turabi .
 It is a public agency.
 Accurate & Reliable

6. INP:
 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. PPI:
 (PPI) 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.

8. ONLINE NEWS AGENCY:
 It was in this background that Mr. Mohsin Baig, the company's
Chairman thought of setting up a news network worthy of
credibility at home as well as in the foreign world. Mr Baig, who
has been a journalist in his own right and now Chief Executive
Online initiated this project in January 1999. 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.
 Online is the first-ever Pakistani news agency operating English
and Urdu news services simultaneously along with
comprehensive national and international photo coverage. Our
news reports often appear in the national and international print
media while our photographs dominate news pages in most of
the newspapers coming out from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore,
Peshawar and Quetta besides some leading papers in the Middle
East, Europe and the United States.

9. APP:
 The Associated Press 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. APP was later converted into Corporation
on October 19, 2002 through an Ordinance
renaming it as Associated Press of Pakistan
Corporation (APPC) and lending a status of semi
government media government.

10. UPP:
 United Press Of Pakistan
 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.

11. PPA:
 Pakistan Press Agency (PPA) was established in 1990 in
Karachi by Mr. Akhtar Jamal (an experienced journalist who
served several reputed international news organizations for
more than ten years in Ankara, Vienna and Beirut)) as its
Chief Executive and Mr. M. N. Deen, (who had retired as
director of Press & Information Department, Government of
Pakistan) as its managing editor. (Unfortunately Mr. Deen
expired in 1998).
 Initially PPA started its work with Jang Group of Newspapers
for which Mr. Jamal had already worked for years.
 Apart from more than a dozen Urdu newspapers, several
English dailies, including Pakistan Observer (Islamabad), The
News International (Karachi), Jang London, Frontier Post
(Peshawar) and Daily Statesman published PPA stories. In
1998 PPA published its first book “Who is Who in Pakistan”
edited by Akhtar Jamal. PPA has two main offices in Pakistan,
Islamabad and Karachi.

12. SHARP EYE :
 Sharp Eye is Pakistan's Independent International News
Agency Established in January 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.
In the light of his Experience he felt the need for
establishment of an independent news agency that
could be a source for presenting true news to media all
the world in different languages.

13. NATIONAL NEWS AGENCIS OF
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES:
 UAE: WAM
 CHINESE: XINHUA
 RUSSIA: ATARTAS
 IRAN: IRNA
 SHAM: SANA
 MALAYSIA: BARNAMA
 INDIA: PTI
 JAPAN: KYODO
 RUSSIA:SPUTNIK

14. WAM:
 The WAM was launched in November 1976. It started Arabic broadcast
on 18 June 1977 and English broadcast in December 1978. The agency
which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi is part of National Media Council.
 The agency has Arabic and English news services and has a website in
both language. In addition to its national offices, it has offices in Cairo,
Beirut, Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad. It is a member of
the Gulf Cooperation Council news agencies, the Federation of Arab
News Agencies, the International Islamic News Agency, the Pool of Non-
Aligned News agencies[ and of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News
Agencies (OANA).
 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. Since 2012 the agency has also been in cooperation with the
official Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency

15. XINCHUA:
 Established on November 7, 1997, as an online news provider of
the Xinhua News Agency, it was officially named Xinhuanet on
March 10, 2000 and began around-the-clock news release with
leading online public opinion at home and setting a good image
of China abroad as its main task.
 Starting from 2010, Xinhuanet began transforming itself from a
governmental cultural institution to an enterprise, operating in the
entity of the Xinhua Network Corporation Limited. In May 2011,
the Xinhuanet Corporation LTD. was officially established.
 Xinhuanet releases news items 24 hours daily in various
languages, namely, Chinese (simplified and traditional), English,
French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan,
and Uygur by using multimedia communication means, such as
texts, photos, graphics, audio messages, video, blogs, podcast,
microblog, short messages, and cell phone news. As a result, it
can reach directly and instantly its audiences at home and
abroad at crucial moments of major news coverage and breaking
events.

16. ITAR-TASS:
 The news agency was named the Information
Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) in
January 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the proclamation of sovereignty by democratic
Russia. TASS: 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 tradition.

17. IRNA:
 The Islamic Republic News Agency *(Persian:
‫اسالمی‬‫جمهوری‬,)‫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[update], the Managing Director of IRNA is
Mohammad Khodaddi. IRNA has 60 offices in Iran
and 30 more in various countries around the world

18. SANA:
 The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is the national
official news agency in Syria. It was established in 1965.
It is linked to the Ministry of Information and has its
headquarters in Damascus.
 The Agency provides full coverage of local, Arab and
international events based on balanced, objective
approach. It is always matching up with the latest
developments in news agencies work.
 SANA performs its work through a highly-qualified staff
at its Damascus- based headquarters and reporters at
all state ministries and institutions, as well as offices in
all of the 14 Syrian governorates.
 The Agency also has offices in Beirut, Paris, Moscow,
Jordan, Tehran, Kuwait, Cairo, Libya, Rome and Turkey.
There are approximately 43 correspondents in other
Arab and foreign countries all over the world.

19. BARNAMA:
 The National News Agency of Malaysia or BERNAMA, a statutory body,
was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and began operations in May
1968.
 A five-member Supervisory Council appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan
Agong is created to ensure that BERNAMA is always guided by the
provisions of the Act in implementing its objectives.
 BERNAMA is managed by a Board of Governors appointed by the Yang
di-Pertuan Agong. The Board comprises a Chairman and six
representatives each from the Federal Government and Newspapers
that are subscribers of BERNAMA. They each have alternate members
who are also appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
 The BERNAMA management is headed by a General Manager who is
assisted by a Management Committee that implements all programe and
activities as well as decisions of the Board of Governors. The agency
has its offices in all the states in Malaysia and correspondents in
Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and stringers or retainers in United States
Of America, Nepal and Europe.

20. PTI:
 *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.That is the significance
of PTI...“
 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

21. KYODO:
 It was established in November 1945 and it
distributes news to almost all newspapers, and
radio and television networks in Japan. The
newspapers using its news have about 50 million
subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News'
business arm, established in 1972.
 The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded
in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international
news media and is located in Rockefeller Center,
New York City.[1]
 Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese
(Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English

22. SPUTNIK:
 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.

23. QATAR:
 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.

24. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES:
 AFP
 REUTERS
 AP

25. AFP:
 Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1944,
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. 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.
 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.
 Agence France-Presse (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-Presse. 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 inWashington, 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.

26. REUTERS:
 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

27. AP:
 he 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.