News Agencies of different Countries.

1. NEWS AGENCIES

2. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN
Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)
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 correspondent.
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.
The journalists were allowed to retain their independent status under this ordinance.
They were not regarded as government or semi-government employees and were
governed by Labour Laws, which also encompass Newspaper Industry in Pakistan.
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.
The APP News Service is mainly divided into three main areas: official, political and

3. Pakistan Press International(PPI)
When it comes to who leads the news industry in Pakistan so in the
majority of people’s minds the only one name comes and that is none other
than “Pakistan Press International” which is the country’s top and
independent news agency and it was launched in 1956 and since then it
has been the prominent name of Pakistan news industry. 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.
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-Press (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.

4. News Network International (NNI)
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.

5. British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It
is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, is the world's oldest national
broadcasting organization, and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of
employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector
broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total
number is 35,402.
The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an
annual television license fee which is charged to all British households, companies,
and organizations using any type of equipment to receive or record
live television broadcasts. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed
by Parliament, and used to fund the BBC's extensive radio, TV, and online services
covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded
the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which
broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online
services in Arabic, and Persian.
Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd,
which sells BBC programme and services internationally and also distributes the
BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and
from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.

6. Kyodo News Agency(Japan)
Kyodo News is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. 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.
Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean,
and English.
The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news
exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.
Satoshi Ishikawa is the news agency's president.
Kyodo News was formed by Furunu Inosuke, the president of the Domei News Agency,
following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.
Kyodo News is the only remaining news agency to transmit news via radiofax. It broadcasts
complete newspapers in Japanese and English, often at 60 lines per minute instead of the
more normal 120 because of the greater complexity of written Japanese.
A full day's news takes hours to transmit. Kyodo has a dedicated transmission to Pacific
fishing fleets from Kagoshima Prefectural Fishery Radio, and a relay from 9VF, possibly still
in Singapore. The frequencies formerly used by JJC radio outside Tokyo are now sent from
an unknown location, using the same identification in Japanese as 9VF. They are still
active and heard daily in 2015.

7. INTERNATIONAL NEWS EGENCIES
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Agence France-Press (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
during German 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.
In September 2007, the AFP Foundation was launched to promote higher
standards of journalism worldwide. The aims of this foundation are to "train
journalists in developing countries, conduct press-relations workshops for
humanitarian groups, provide curricula to high schools and universities, and
organize seminars on issues facing the media." The foundation will operate in
English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It initially began operations
in Tunisia and Syria. The foundation also hosts debates on the freedom of the
press, ethics, and working conditions for journalists.

8. REUTERS
Reuters 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, Kore
an, 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 new news, serving banks,
brokerage houses, and business firms.
Our 2,600 journalists in nearly 200 locations around the globe deliver award-winning
international and national news coverage with speed, impartiality and insight.
At Reuters, we are constantly innovating our products and services to meet the needs of our
customers. Since 1850, we have developed content and news solutions to become the
world’s leading international news agency.

9. The Associated Press(AP)
The Associated Press (AP) was formed in May 1846 by representatives of five competitive New York
City newspapers. After the Civil War, the owners of these newspapers realized that they, through
their newspapers, were all essentially paying for the same information from their reporters.
The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization.
Formed in 1846, The Associated Press is governed by an elected board of directors chosen from the
heads of a number of large news organizations including newspapers and broadcasters. The AP is a
cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United
States, who both contribute stories to it and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers
and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers—that is, they pay a fee to use AP
material, but are not members of the cooperative. Generally using a "just the facts" writing style, the
AP has provided basic news coverage of events around the world to the world, and its Stylebook has
become the standard "Bible" of the newspaper industry. With advances in technology, particularly
the internet, the role and style of AP reporting has evolved. Thus, the AP has maintained its position
as the preeminent world news agency, doing more to inform and educate the public about current
events than any other single organization, a valuable contribution to establishing a world in which all
people can live in peace and harmony as one human family.
AP's news is used by 1,700 newspapers, in addition to 5,000 television and radio outlets. Its photo
library consists of more than 10 million images. The AP has 242 bureaus and serves 121 countries,
with a diverse international staff drawing from all over the world. The AP Stylebook has become the
de facto standard for news writing in the United States.

10. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES
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
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.
Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its
own communication satellite, an INSAT, to broadcast news and information.
Its current chairman is Riyadh Mathew.

11. BERNAMA(Malaysia)
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 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.
BERNAMA’s role as a source of reliable and latest news is well known among
local and international media including government agencies, corporations,
universities and individuals nationwide.
The Internet has opened up new opportunities for BERNAMA in disseminating its
news and information services directly to the public. This is done through its own
web sites and through other web sites. BERNAMA is also offering value-added
news packages for Internet entrepreneurs maintaining their own web sites.

12. XINGHUA(China)
The Xinhua press agency was started in November 1931 as the Red China News Agency
and changed to its current name in 1937. During the Pacific War the agency developed
overseas broadcasting capabilities and established its first overseas branches.
The Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation)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.
Like many other media organizations, Xinhua struggled to find the "right line" to use in
covering the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 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. It has made contracts to exchange news and news pictures with more than eighty
foreign news agencies or political news departments. Xinhua is also responsible for
handling, and in some cases, censoring reports from foreign media destined to release in
China.

13. WAM(U.A.E)
Emirates News Agency , 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.
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. 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.

14. ATARTAS(RUSSIA)
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 Agence France-Presse (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.
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.
TASS is a media partner of high-profile conferences, forums and
exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

15. SPUTINK(RUSSIA)
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. In 2015,
Sputnik announced their intention to locate the agency's new UK Radio
studio in Scotland's capital Edinburgh. The agency subsequently established its radio
studio and bureau in the city and launched its current affairs and news
programme, World in Focus, at a press conference on 10 August 2016. In March
2016, access to Sputnik's online content was blocked by Turkish authorities, as well
as denying the Turkish bureau chief Tural Kerimov access to the country. The move is
thought to have been in response to comments by the Russian leadership that were
critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding the Turkish administration's
record on human rights and freedom of speech. The website was subsequently
unblocked later that same year

16. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY
(IRNA) (IRAN)
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.
In 1934, Pars Agency was established by the Foreign Ministry of Iran (Persia) as the
country's official national news outlet. 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.
IRNA cooperates with leading international and regional news agencies. This
cooperation at the professional level started decades ago. IRNA's cooperation with
regional and international agencies takes way of the following forms.
• Exclusive agency contracts .
• Bilateral cooperation contracts.
• Contracts for sales of pictures and news items.

17. SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY(SANA)
(SYRIA)
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.
Website:
SANA launched its website in 1997.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.
Managers:
• Fawaz Jundi (1965–1966)
• Hussein al-Awdat (1966–1971)
• Marwan al-Hamwi (1971–1975)
• Saber Falhout (1975–1991)
• Fayez al-Sayegh (1991–2000)
• Ali Abdul Karim (2000–2002)
• Ghazi al-Zeeb (2002–2004)
• Dr. Adnan Mahmoud (2004–2011)
• Ahmad Dawa (2011–present)

18. SUADI PRESS AGENCY(Suadi Arabia)
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.
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. The SPA has offices
in Bonn, Cairo, London, Tunis and Washington, DC.
In late May 2012, the Saudi Council of Ministers made a decision to separate Saudi
Television and Radio and Saudi Press Agency (SPA), making both as two
independent corporations.
Under the May 2012 restructuring, the SPA covers events and issues at national,
regional and international levels, especially those related to the Kingdom and
contribute to strengthening the journalistic profession in the country. The new
arrangement also involves the transformation of the SPA into a Presidency. The
president is Abdullah bin Fahd Al Hussein. The minister of culture and information
acts as the board chairman of the agency.
In November 2013, the SPA signed a news exchange agreement with Anadolu Agency,
official news agency of Turkey.

19. NATIONAL IRAQI NEWS EGENCY(NINI)
The National Iraqi News Agency or NINA, was the first
independent news agency in Iraq after the Iraq War. It is
primarily an Internet-based news outlet, although it plans
to offer a WiFi platform in the near future. It has 15
editorial and executive staff at its head office in
the Sadoun district of Baghdad and correspondents in all
18 Iraqi governorates.