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News Agencies
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Indian News Agencies
Press Trust of India (PTI)
United News of India ( UNI)
Indo Asian News Service (IANS)
ANI(Asian News International)
NNIS
CVB

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International News Agencies
Associated Press (AP) -USA
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Pan African News Agency (PANA)
Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance (PANA)
Middle East News Agency (MENA)
Kyodo News -Japan
Reuters -UK
Tass – (USSR)
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Federal Republic of Germany)
Ansa (Italy)
Central News agency of China
Novosty Press Agency (USSR)

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Associated Press (AP) -USA
The AP is the backbone of the world's
information system with 242 total bureaus
worldwide.
Founded in 1848, The Associated Press is
the largest news organization in the world,
serving as a source of news, photos,
graphics, audio and video for more than one
billion people a day.
8,500 International subscribers who receive
AP news and photos

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Associated Press (AP)
In the United States alone, AP serves 5,000
radio and television stations and 1,700
newspapers.
 In 121 countries overseas AP has over
8,500 newspaper, radio and television as its
subscribers. 1,700 U.S. daily, weekly, non-
English and college newspapers
5,000 radio/TV outlets taking AP
1000 AP Radio Network affiliates taking AP
Network News

6. Associated Press (AP)
121 number of countries served by AP in 5
languages
English
German
Dutch
French &
Spanish.
The report is translated into many more
languages by international subscribers.

7. AP - Laurels & Awards
The Associated Press has received 47
Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other
news organization.
AP has 28 photo Pulitzers, the most of
any news organization.

8. Agence France-Presse (AFP)
AFP is the world's oldest news agency,
founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, the
father of global journalism with its main
headquarters in Paris.
 The agency continues to expand its
operations worldwide, reaching thousands of
subscribers (radios, TVs, newspapers,
companies) Regional centers in Washington,
Hong Kong, Nicosia and Montevideo.

9. AFP- Worldwide
AFP's worldwide network takes in 165 countries, of which
110 are home to bureaus.
Coverage is organized around five regions.
North America : HQ: Washington – 9 bureaus
Latin America : HQ: Montevideo - 15 bureaus
Asia-Pacific : HQ: Hong Kong - 25 bureaus
Europe-Africa:HQ: Paris - 36 European
bureaus and 16 African ones
Middle East : HQ: Nicosia – 9 bureaus

10. AFP-Services
Text- 400,000 - 600,000 words
700 photos
50 news graphics.
AFP provides full services in six languages:
French, English, German, Spanish,
Portuguese and Arabic.
It is also available via partner agencies in
many other languages, including Chinese,
Japanese, Russian and Italian.
AFP covers all the news worldwide

11. AFP Online Services
AFP offers multimedia products online:
Text
Pictures
Graphics
Dynamic graphics & Video.
AFP covers all the news worldwide, from
politics and diplomacy to economy and
finance, sports and culture to science,
technology, health and people.

12. Reuters -UK
Reuters News Agency founded by Paul Julius
Reuter, a German-born immigrant, opened
an office in the City of London in 1851.
Reuters is World's largest international
multimedia news agency in 197 bureaus
serving 130 countries with 445,000
professional users with 52,900 clients over
26 languages.
Connects over 250,000 financial
professionals via its instant messaging
service, Reuters Messaging

13. Breaking News - Reuters
In 1865 Reuters was first in Europe
with news of President Lincoln’s
assassination in the United States.
Reuters was also first with news of
Berlin Wall being built in 1961.
Reuters maintained an office in East
Berlin for 30 years.
In 1989 Reuters were first with the
news of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

14. Press Trust of India (PTI)
The Press Trust of India (PTI) Limited is a
non-profit sharing cooperative of the Indian
newspapers with a mandate to provide
efficient and unbiased news to all its
subscribers.
Established on 27 August 1947, the news
agency took over the Associated Press of
Indian and the Indian operation of Reuters
and began functioning from February 1949.

15. PTI Services
PTI offers its news services in English and
Hindi languages.'Bhasha' is the Hindi
language news service of the agency.
 A network of 140 bureaus, over 400
journalists keep the agency's teleprinter's
ticking on a round-the-clock basis.
The agency provides
Photos
Features
Graphics
Publishes Economic & Science service journals.
PTI also brings out 'Data India' as a weekly India
reference publication.

16. PTI Services
PTI offers a news service on VDUs called
news-scan.
Stock market information can likewise be
seen on screen in PTI-stockscan.
PTI is a leading participant in the Pool of
News Agencies of the Non Aligned Countries
and the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News
Agencies.
The agency contributes its news to these two
multilateral news exchange arrangements,
and distributes the news in turn.

17. United News of India (UNI)

United News of India (UNI) was registered as a company
in 1959 and began its news operations from 21 March
1961.
UNI launched a full-fledged Indian language news
service, Univarta, in Hindi in May 1982.
This was followed up a decade later with the launching
of an Urdu service on teleprinter for the first time in
the world.

18. UNI services
 Other teleprinter services of the news
agency include Unifin, a specialised service
for banking, financial and commercial
organisations.
Unistock, a service for stock exchanges and
brokers.
In July 1986, UNI started its Television wing
Uniscan, a news service fed into television
sets.
 A National Photo Service started in 1987 is
another pioneering venture.