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• Pakistan Press International (PPI[citation needed]) 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.
• 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.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/newsagenciesofpakistan-170219181311/75/NEWS-AGENCIES-3-2048.jpg)
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- 2. APP Associated Press ofPakistan (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 correspondents. Following Pakistan's independence, the new-born country's press was economically weak, and was thus unable to financially support the agency. APP asked the Government of Pakistan for financial support, which was granted in the form of loans and subsidies. Government support enabled APP to subscribe to the services of the world's news agencies and to open offices in major cities of Pakistan.
- 3. PPI • Pakistan PressInternational (PPI[citation needed]) 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. • 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 • NNI Newsor 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.
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- 6. PTI (INDIA) • PressTrust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a non-profit 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.
- 7. BERNAMA (MALAYSIA) • TheMalaysian National News Agency abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body placed under the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia. Bernama is an abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia. Bernama also means named or titled in the Malay language. It was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started work on 20 May 1968. Being the Malaysian government's official news agency, Bernama's content and views are decidedly right-leaning and pro- government of the day.
- 8. XINHUA (CHINA) • TheXinhua News Agency 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.
- 9. WAM (U.A.E) • 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.
- 10. SPUTNIK ( RUSSIA) •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
- 11. IRNA (IRAN) • 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
- 12. SANA ( SYRIA) •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. • SANA launched its website in 1997.Up until November 2012, SANA's website was hosted in Dallas, Texas by the United States company Soft Layer. Due to sanctions related to the Syrian Civil War, which make this hosting illegal, the Soft Layer company was obliged to terminate its hosting responsibilities with SANA.
- 13. Kyodo (Japan) • KyodoNews is a non-profit 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 Centre, New York City. • Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English.
- 14. SUNA (Sudan ) •Sudan News Agency, also known as SUNA, is the official news agency of Sudan. It provides news to other organizations in English, French and Arabic. The Sudan News Agency was launched in 1971. Abdul Karim Mehdi was the first director of the SUNA. Then Mustafa Amin became the director of the agency. Amin served as the director until 1985.
- 15. KUNA (Kuwait) • KuwaitNews Agency (KUNA) is an official state news KUNA was established in 1956. It was reorganized in 1976 as an independent body. However, it functions as a branch of the Ministry of Information, although it has an independent budget. • The agency has a section with the title of Health and Environment which covers regularly updated news on environmental issues. • As of 2009 the news agency had offices and correspondents in 33 countries. Wire service based in Kuwait.
- 16. QATAR NEWS AGENCY •Qatar News Agency was established by a decree issued on 25 May 1975.It is attached to the ministry of information. The former parent ministry was the ministry of foreign affairs. The headquarters of the agency is in Doha. • The agency provides news in Arabic and English . It has also Spanish and Portuguese news service is a state-run Qatari news agency.
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- 18. AFP • Agence France-Presse(AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. • Founded in 1944,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 Français information", a Vichy news agency, following the liberation of Paris. • Currently, the CEO is Emmanuel Hoog (fr) and the News Director is Michèle 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.
- 19. AP • The AssociatedPress (AP) is an American multinational non- profit news agency headquartered in New York City that 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. Most of the AP staff are union members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America, which operates under the AFL–CIO.
- 20. REUTERS • Reuters isan 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.