This document discusses different types of news agencies. It provides details on several major international news agencies like Reuters and Associated Press (AP), as well as France-based AFP. For national news agencies, it outlines Pakistan's government-run APP and some prominent private news agencies operating in Pakistan, such as United Press of Pakistan and Pakistan Press International. The document aims to classify news agencies into international, national and local categories and provide an overview of different agency models.

1. SHADAB ASHRAF

2.  An Organization that collects news items and
distributes them to newspapers or broadcasters.
TYPES OF NEWS AGENCY
1. International News Agency
2. National News Agency
3. Local News Agency

3.  Reuters 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, Itali
an, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Urdu
, and Chinese. It was established in 1851.

4.  Type: Not-for-profit cooperative
 Industry: News media
 Founded: May 22, 1846; 171 years ago
 Headquarters: 200 Liberty Street New York City, New York , U.S.
 Area served: Worldwide
 Key people: Steven R. Swartz (Chairman), Gary Pruitt (President and CEO)
 Products: Wire service
 Revenue: $568.13 million (2015)
 Operating income: $13.9 million (2015)
 Net income: $183.6 million (2015)
 Number of employees: 3,200
 Website: www.ap.org
 it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned
by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United
States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by
its staff journalists. AP's mission is to inform the world with accurate, fair,
unbiased reporting.

5.  Agency France-Press (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 Francis d'information, a Vichy news
agency, following the liberation of Paris.
 Currently, the CEO is Emmanuel Hoog (fr) and the
News Director is Michele 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.

6.  There are two types of News Agency.
1) Government News Agency
Associated Press of Pakistan
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.

7. 2) Private News Agency
 UPP United Press Of Pakistan Ltd
 PPI Pakistan Press International
 Pakistan-International Press Agency
 News Network International
 E.T.N. Eastern Tv News
 Bizmen News Network (BNN)
 Online International News Network
 Sabha News Agency
 Independent News Pakistan
 Network News International

8.  ALL PAKISTAN NEWS AGECNCY(APNA)
 ALL-RUMAN NEWS NETWORK
 ALERT FLASH PRESS
 BAHOO NEWS AGENCY
 BUSINESS LINK INTERNATION
 CRIME OBSERVER NEWS PAKISTAN(CONP)
 ECZEE
 EXCLUSIVE NEWS INTERNATION
 FOCUS PRESS PAKISTAN
 MEDIA NEWS AGENCY