The document discusses several local and national news agencies in Pakistan and other countries. For Pakistan, it outlines the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), Pakistan Press International (PPI), News Network International (NNI), Saba News Agency (SABAH), Independent News Pakistan (INS), and Online, describing their founding, services provided, and locations. It also briefly profiles major news agencies for India (PTI), Malaysia (BERNAMA), China (XINHUA), UAE (WAM), Russia (ATARTAS, SPUTINK), Iran (IRNA), and Syria (SANA).

1. B Y A N I Q A Z A I D I
B S 3 R D Y E A R
J I N N A H U N I V E R S I T Y F O R W O M E N
“New Agencies”

2. LOCAL NEWS AGENICES
 Associate press of pakistan
 Pakistan press international
 News Network international
 SABAH
 International news service
 News network international
 Online newspaper

3. (APP)
 The Associated Pressof Pakistan(APP) started its life in 1947 with the independence of
Pakistan.
 APP was later converted into Corporation on October 19, 2002 through an Ordinance
renaming it as AssociatedPress of Pakistan Corporation (APPC) and lending a status of
semi government media government.
 Ensure free and efficient flow of news to the people through print and electronicmedia
including radio, televisionand newspapersas well as business and non-media subscribers
for which they pay a regular monthly subscriptionto APP.
 Supply unbiasedand reliable print and pictorialnews service speedily and contribute
features to national and internationalprint and electronicnews agencies,newspapers, radio
and televisionnetworks with which it has entered into agreements.

4. CONTI…..
 Transmit correct and reliable political, economic, financial and commercial news
including national and international rates of commodities to its subscribers; expand
and develop news service in the country ensuring high journalistic standards.
 The agency’s URDU LANGUAGE service started in the 1980s to cater for the needs
of the growing number of Urdu language dailies in Pakistan.
 The Visual News Service (VNS)was launches during 2007 with a special focus to
provide electronic news coverage of President, Prime Minister, Parliament House to
private media national and international channels

5. (PPI)
 Pakistan Press International (PPI), the country’s independent news agency, was establishedin 1956
with a view to providingthe media in Pakistan with an objectivenews service.
 It was first started by Mr. Muzzam Ali, the Chief Editor of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).
 The agency objectivewas to provide competitionto APP's monopoly.
 For foreignnews the agency signed up with the Agency 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 installedthe teleprinters in the officesof its clients. By 1960, PPI had
subscribersin all the major newspapers centersof Pakistan, namely Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi
and Dacca

6. (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.
 It provide services in both languages Urdu and English. In 2013 NNI's photographer
killed in a blast

7. (SABAH)
 The Saba News Agency (SABAH) also known as the
Yemen News Agency.
 (SOUTH ASIAN BROADCASTING AGENCY Sabah
(South Asian Broadcasting Agency) ACCURATE
AND RELIABLE
 Chief Editor is Shakil Ahmed Turabi.
 It is a Public company

8. (INS)
 Independent News Pakistan (inp) 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 ,
Quetta & 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.

9. (NNI)
 News Network International (NNI) is a private- operated national news agency of
Pakistan.
 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 provide services in both languages Urdu and English

10. (ONLINE)
 Online pioneered-and continues to be the only news agency to operate-
photo service in Pakistan
 It is the only Pakistani media organization that processes information in a
substantially none- paper environment.
 After attaining the status of a credible and most subscribed news/photo
service provider in Pakistan, They later launched English/Arabic news and
pictures service for daily, weekly and monthly publications across the
globe.

11. NATIONAL AGENCIES
Agencies of Different Countries:
1: PTI ( INDIA )
2: BARNAMA ( MALAYSIA )
3: XINGHUA ( CHINA )
4: WAM ( U.A.E )
5: ATARTAS,SPUTINK ( RUSSIA )
6: IRNA ( IRAN )
7: SANA ( SYRIA )

12. (PTI)
 (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.
 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

13. (BARNAMA)
 The Malaysian National News Agency (Malay: Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia),
abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news agency of the government of Malaysia.
 Bernama is an abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia.
 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.
 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, New York, Australia and London. Most of the news media
in Malaysia and Singapore and international news agencies subscribe to BERNAMA.

14. (XINGHUA)
 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.

15. (WAM)
 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.
 The agency has Arabic and English news services and has a website in
both languages

16. (ATARTAS,SPUTINK)
 Sputnik (pronounced spʊtnɪk)is a news agency, news websites and radio broadcastservice
established bythe 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 entirelytowards a non-Russian audience.Sputnik has been
widely accused ofbias, disinformation and being a Russian propagandaoutlet.
 Sputnik currentlyoperates news websites, featuringreporting and commentary, in over 30
languagesincluding English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and several others. The websites also house
over 800 hours of radio broadcastingmaterialeach day and its newswire service runs around the
clock, Alongside its news content, Sputnik also sells other productsincluding photo essays, live
streaming, infographics,and public opinionsurveys

17. (IRNA)
 The Islamic Republic News Agency (Persian: ‫جمهوری‬ ‫خبرگزاری‬
‫اسالمی‬ ), 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

18. ( SANA)
 The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic: ‫السورية‬ ‫العربية‬ ‫الوكالة‬
‫لألنباء‬ 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 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 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.