FOLLOWING ARE SOME MAIN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES

1. AP : (AMERICAN PRESS)
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-
profit news agency based in New York City. Founded
in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated
association. The AP is owned by its contributing
newspapers and radio and television stations in the
United States. AP has earned 52 Pulitzer Prizes,
including 31 for photography, since the award was
established in 1917.

2. AP has earned 52 Pulitzer Prizes, including 31 for
photography, since the award was established in 1917.
AP has counted the vote in U.S. elections since 1848,
including national, state and local races down to the
legislative level in all 50 states, along with key ballot
measures. AP collects and verifies returns in every
county, parish, city and town across the U.S., and
declares winners in over 5,000 contests.
As of 2016, news collected by the AP was published
and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and
broadcasters. The AP operates 263 news bureaus in
106 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network,
which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast
and satellite radio and television stations.

3. AFP : (AGENCY FRANCE PRESSE)
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an
international news agency headquartered in Paris,
France.
Founded in 1835, 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.

4. 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.

5. REUTERS :
Reuters (/ˈrɔɪtərz/) is an international news
agency headquartered in London, United
Kingdom. It 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, Italia
n, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Urdu,
and Chinese. It was established in 1851.

6. Since 1850, we have experimented, invented, and
created content and news solutions to become the
world’s leading international news agency. Always at
the forefront of real-time breaking news and high-
impact global multimedia content, we are constantly
innovating our products and services to meet your
business needs.

7. APP : ( ASSOSCIATED PRESS OF PAKSITAN)
Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a
government-operated national news agency
of Pakistan. The name APP should not to be
confused with Associated Press Service (APS) is a
private independent Pakistani news agency and
other 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.

8. 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 centers around the world.

9. It took over the operations of the Associated Press
of India from Reuters after India's independence in
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.

10. XINHUA :
New China 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, as well as the largest news
agency in the world in terms of correspondents
worldwide. Xinhua is a ministry-level institution
subordinate to the Chinese central government,
and is the highest ranking state media organ in
the country alongside the People's Daily. Its
president is a member of the Central Committee
of China's Communist Party.

11. Xinhua operates more than 170 foreign bureaus
worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaus in China—
one for each province autonomous
region and directly-administered
municipality plus a military bureau. Xinhua is the
sole channel for the distribution of important
news related to the Communist Party and Chinese
central government, and its headquarters
in Beijing is strategically located within close
proximity to Zhongnanhai.

12. 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.

13. Emirates News Agency (Arabic : ‫أنباء‬ ‫وكالة‬
‫االمارات‬ ,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.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.

14. The Malaysian National News Agency (Malay
: Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia),
abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news agency of the
government of Malaysia. 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.

15. SANA :
It is a Syrian state 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.

16. It is a news agency, news website platform
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 Edinb
urgh; in Sputnik's Washington D.C. office, Peter
Martinichev is the editor and Mikhail Safronov is
the bureau chief.

17. Sputnik focuses on global politics
and economics and is geared towards a non-Russian
audience. According to The New York Times,
Sputnik engages in bias and disinformation, and has
widely been described as 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.

18. Anadolu Agency (Turkish: Anadolu Ajansı,
abbreviated AA) is an international news agency
headquartered in Ankara, Turkey and is a state-
run news agency of the Turkish government.
The Anadolu Agency was founded in 1920 during
the Turkish War of Independence.
Journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu and writer Halide
Edip, fleeing the occupied capital, met
in Geyve and concluded that a new Turkish press
agency was needed.

19. The agency was officially launched on April 6, 1920,
17 days before the Turkish Grand National Assembly
convened for the first time. It announce the first
legislation passed by the Assembly, which established
the Republic of Turkey.

20. The agency was established in 1970 as the first
national news agency in Saudi Arabia.The agency is
also the first news agency in the Persian Gulf
region. The main goal of its establishment was to
serve as a central body to collect and distribute local
and international news in Saudi Arabia and abroad.

21. The SPA is under the responsibility of the ministry
of culture and information and therefore, its
president directly reports to the minister. The SAP
provides the newspapers with a guideline, the
editorial line, which should be followed in their
reports. The Agency publishes news in both
Arabic and English.
BY : MAHA NADEEM