The document provides information on several national and international news agencies: - Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is Pakistan's government-operated national news agency, established in 1947. It has over 500 correspondents and exchanges news with 37 foreign agencies. - Other prominent Pakistani news agencies discussed include Pakistan Press International (PPI), News Network International (NNI), Independent News Pakistan (INP), and Sabah. - International agencies described include Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters, Associated Press (AP), Press Trust of India, Bernama (Malaysia), Kyodo News (Japan), Xinhua (China), WAM (UAE), TASS (Russia), Sputnik

2. 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.

3. “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. 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.

5. INP (Independent News Pakistan) 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

6. Sabah (South Asian Broadcasting Agency) South Asian Broadcasting
Agency - ACCURATE AND RELIABLE Chief Editor is Shakil Ahmed
Turabi It is a Public companY

7. ANN (Asia News Network) History 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.
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.

8. OINN(Online International News Network) It is Pakistan's leading news and
photo agency. This is Pakistan's first bilingual news and photo wire
service, dedicated to issues that are neglected by the mainstream media.
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.

9. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS
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.

10. 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, Korean, 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.

11. 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.
.

12. 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.

13. 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.
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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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.

21. Russian News Agency TASS (Russian: Информационное агентство
России ТАСС, tr. Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS), abbr. TASS
(Russian: ТАСС) 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).[1]
Tass is owned by the Government of Russia.[2] 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.