3. 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
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OF
PAKISTAN
4. Pakistan Press International 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
PAKISTAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL
5. 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.
INDEPENDENT NEWS PAKISTAN
6. 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.
NNI NEWS
7. It is indeed our great privilege to introduce Pakistan's
leading news and photo agency Online International
News Network (OINN) to you. This is Pakistan's first
bilingual news and photo wire service, dedicated to
issues that are neglected by the mainstream media.
t 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.
ONLINE NEWS AGENCY
9. 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 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.
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA (PTI)
10. The Emirates News Agency 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
languages. In addition to its national offices, it has offices in Cairo, Beirut,
Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad
Emirates News Agency
11. Bakhtar News Agency is the official state news agency of the Afghan
government, based in Kabul. The agency is a major source of news
for all media in Afghanistan, gathering domestic and international
news and providing information to outlets.
The government had planned to make the agency independent of
government control in 2004 before elections.
In 2002, Agency France-Press established a satellite link providing
news information to the Bakhtar News Agency.
Established in 1939 by the Government Press Department, it monitors
foreign and domestic news before distribution. The English sector of
the news distribution was not added until 1992 in order to keep
foreign diplomats informed of Afghan news. The Ministry of Culture
and Information monitors the agency
Bakhtar News Agency
(Afghanistan):-
12. The Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: /ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/) 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 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.
The Xinhua News Agency
(China):
13. 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.
The Malaysian National
News
