TOP NEWS AGENCIES OF THE WORLD

TOP NEWS AGENCIES OF THE WORLD

1:AP
ASSOCIATE PRESS 

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, 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.

Its Statement of News Values and Principles spells out its standards and practices.

2: United Press International (UPI) 

is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches.

3:The Canadian Press (CP; French: La Presse Canadienne [PC]) is a national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1917

as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day to exchange their news and information. For most of its history, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit cooperative, owned and operated by its member newspapers. In mid-2010, however, it announced plans to become a for-profit business owned by three media companies once certain conditions are met

4: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, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Urdu, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. It was established in 1851.

5: AFP AGENCY FRANCE PRESS
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Agence Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency, and is the third largest news agency in the modern world after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.

AFP has regional offices in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C., and news bureaux in 150 countries. AFP transmits in French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.

6: DPA DEUTSCHE PRESS AGENCY 

Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (DPA; German Press Agency) is a Germannews agency founded in 1949.^[1] Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is available in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.

The DPA is the largest press agency in Germany.Along with the main office in Hamburg, there is a central news office in Berlin. The DPA has offices in some 100 countries, including 12 regional German bureaus along with 50 additional offices in Germany.

7:SPA SAUDI PRESS AGENCY 

The agency was established in 1970 as the first national news agency in Saudi Arabia.The agency is also the first news agency in the Persian Gulf region The main goal of its establishment was to serve as a central body to collect and distribute local and international news in Saudi Arabia and abroad.

The SPA is under the responsibility of the ministry of culture and information and therefore, its president directly reports to the minister.The SAP provides the newspapers with a guideline, the editorial line, which should be followed in their reports.The Agency publishes news in both Arabic and English.^[4] The SPA has offices in Bonn, Cairo, London, Tunis and Washington, DC.

8: WAM 

Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM, is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates.

Founded: November 1976, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Parent agency: UAE National Media Council

9:KUNA KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY 

Kuwait News Agency is an official state news wire service based in Kuwait.


Founded: 1956
Headquarters: Shuwaikh, Al Asimah;
Agency executives: - Mubarak Al Duaij Al Sabah, Chairman; - Ahmad Yusuf Behbehani, Deputy Chairman; Ahmad Husain GH. Dashti

10: MINA 

Montenegrin News Agency, or MINA, is a Montenegrin national news agency which was formed on March 11, 2002. It is based in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. MINA's current executive director is Jaša Jovićević. It has services in Montenegrin, Albanian and English.

11: ANATOLIA AGENCY AA 

ANATOLIA AGENCY (A.A.). TURKEY'S OLDEST NEWS AGENCY. BASED IN ANQARA (Ankara). 

12: IRNA ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY 

The Islamic Republic News Agency (Persian: خبرگزاری جمهوری اسلامی‎), 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.

13:ITAAR TAS (INFORMATION TELEGRAPH AGENCY OF RUSSIA )

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 one of the largest news agencies worldwide, along with Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia.^[2] Headquartered in Moscow, TASS has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus around the world.

14:PTI 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 of 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 around the world. It took over the operations of the Associated Press of India from Reuters after India's independence in 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.

15: UNI UNITED NEWS OF INDIA

United News of India (UNI) is a multilingual news agency in India. It was founded in December 1961 as an English news agency. Its commercial operations were started from 21 March 1961. With its Univarta, a Hindi news service, UNI became one of the multilingual news service in the world. In 1992, it started its Urdu news service and hence became the first news agency to provide Urdu news. Currently, it is one of the important news agencies in India, supplying news in English, Hindi, and Urdu languages. Its news bureaus are present in all state capitals and major cities of India.

16: ANI ASIAN 

Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian news agency based in New Delhi that provides multimedia news to 50 bureaus in India and most of South Asia. Coverage includes general news, entertainment, lifestyles, business, politics, science, sports and features.^[5] As of 2015 the chairman of the company was Prem Prakash.^[6] Sanjiv Prakash was the Editor and CEO of Asian News International.^[7]

Asian News International was the first news agency in India to syndicate video news.^[8] It provides video footage to a large number of Indian news channels and a few international news channels like BBC, CNN and NHK

17: APP( 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.

18: PPI (PAKISTAN  PRESS INTERNATIONAL )

Pakistan Press International (PPi) is a news agency founded in June 1956 as Pakistan Press Association (PPA). The name was changed in 1968. It was first started by Mr. Muzzam Ali, the Chief Editor of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). The agency objective was to provide competition to APP's monopoly. It began its service by hand, only in Karachi. 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-Presse (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.

19: NEWS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL

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. In 2013 NNI's photographer killed in a blast.

20: ANN ASIAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL

Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian news agency based in New Delhi that provides multimedia news to 50 bureaus in India and most of South Asia.
Owner‎: ‎ANI Media Private Limited
Headquarters‎: ‎New Delhi, India

21: ONLINE NEWS SERVICES 

22: INP  ( INDEPENDENT NEWS OF PAKISTAN )

INDEPENDENT News Pakistan is a registered News Agency in Pakistan, This wire service has correspondents all across Pakistan, who provide fresh and latest news to all major news channels, radio stations, magazines, websites and newspapers. You can find the contact details of INP News Pakistan including Address, phone numbers, website address and email address on this page.