major news agencies

1. NEWS
AGENCIES

2. UNESCO DEFINITION
“An undertaking of which the principal objective
whatever its legal form, is to gather news and
news material of which the sole purpose is to
express or present facts, and to distribute this to
a group of news enterprises, and in exceptional
circumstances to private individuals with a view
to providing them with a complete and impartial
news service as possible against payment, and
under conditions compatible with business laws
and usage”.

3. NEWS AGENCIES
• News agencies are organizations that gather,
write, and distribute news from around a
nation or the world to newspapers,
periodicals, radio and television broadcasters,
government agencies, and other users.
• Newspapers all over the world depend on
news agencies for news flow.
• News Agencies are a subscribed services.

4. NEWS AGENCIES
• News agencies act as corporations that sell
news or as agencies that tie-up with other
media houses and generate their news
centrally and share local news content with
the major news agencies.
• News agencies are a backbone for collecting
transnational news.
• They are also called as press agencies, press
associations, wire services, or news services.

5. NEWS AGENCIES
• It does not generally publish news itself but
supplies news to its subscribers, who, by
sharing costs, obtain services they could not
otherwise afford or access.
• Mass media depends on the agencies for the
bulk of the news, including those that have
extensive news-gathering resources of their
own.

6. REUTERS
• Founded by Paul Julius Reuter in
1851.
• Headquarters at London.
• Reuters has the credit of being the
first to break important news like the
American Civil War and the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
• It is a major provider of commercial
information like foreign exchange
rates, stock exchange prices,
commodity prices etc.

7. ASSOCIATED PRESS
• AP is a non-profit cooperative
organization established in
1846 in New York.
• It operates 243 bureaus in
nearly 120 countries, with
international staff located
across the world.

8. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
• AFP is the oldest international
news agency, headquartered in
Paris.
• AFP has regional offices in
Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong
Kong, and Washington, D.C., and
bureaus in 150 countries.
• It transmits news in French,
English, Arabic, Portuguese,
Spanish and German.

9. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
• PTI is India’s premier news
agency.
• Headquarters at New Delhi.
• Non-profit cooperative of more
than 500 Indian newspapers.
• It employs more than 400
journalists and 500 stringers to
cover almost every district and
small town in India.

10. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
• Collectively, they put out more than 2,000 stories
and 200 photographs a day.
• Its Hindi service is called Bhasha.
• PTI correspondents are based in all important
news centers around the world.
• It also has tied-up with several foreign news
agencies.
• Currently, PTI commands 90% of news agency
market share in India.

11. UNITED NEWS OF INDIA
• UNI started its commercial
operations on March 21, 1961.
• It has News Bureaus in all state
capitals and other major cities.
• The agency also has
representatives in key world
capitals.

12. UNITED NEWS OF INDIA
• UNI was the first to start a multi-language news
service UNIVARTA on May 1, 1982 that provides
news services to Hindi newspapers.
• UNI remains the first and only news agency in the
world to supply news in Urdu.
• This service was begun on June 5, 1992.
• The agency’s subscribers include newspapers
published in 14 languages, AIR, Doordarshan,
Central and State governments, corporate and
commercial houses besides electronic and web-
based media source news from UNI.

13. INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE
• IANS was established in 1986,
initially to serve as an information
bridge between India and its
Diaspora in North America.
• Today it is a full-fledged, 24X7
agency based in Delhi-NCR (Noida),
putting out the real-time news
from India, South Asia and news of
this region around the world.

14. ASIAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL
• ANI is South Asia’s leading
multimedia news agency with
over 100 bureaus in India, South
Asia and across the globe.
• ANI has established itself as a
‘complete content house’
providing text, video and picture
content for TV, print, mobile and
online media.

15. ASIAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL
• ANI also provides a range of facilities for
foreign and domestic channels to package
their reports in India and uplink via satellite.
• These include provision of professional crew,
editing and post production facilities, access
to archives, up linking facilities, coordinators,
producers and correspondents, as per
requirement.