List of news agencies
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
Founded in 1835 as Agence Havas, and changing its name in 1944, Agence France-Presse (AFP) 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.[1]
Founded in 1846, Associated Press was founded in New York in the U.S. as a not-for-profit news agency. Associated Press was challenged by the 1907 creation of United Press Associations by E.W. Scripps and the International News Service in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst. United Press absorbed INS to form United Press International in 1958.
In 1851, Reuters was founded in England and is now the second largest news agency in the world with over 2,000 offices across the globe.
With the advent of communism in Russia, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded in 1925.
Xinhua was later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese Soviet Republic.
Political change in the Third World resulted in a new wave of information dissemination and a series of news agencies were born out of it. These agencies later formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP), which served as a premiere information service in the Third World.
EFE, a Spanish organization, is the biggest Spanish-language news agency, and the fourth largest worldwide. It was founded in 1939.
The largest German-language news agency is Hamburg's DPA. The oldest German news agency still in operation is the Protestant News Agency EPD, tracing back to 1876.
List
Below is the list of the principal news agencies.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2012) |
A–M
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belga
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- FENA - Federal News Agency - Federalna novinska agencija
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- The Canadian Press (La Presse Canadienne)
- Cape Verde
- China
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Middle East News Agency
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur
- Evangelischer Pressedienst
- Sport-Informations-Dienst
- Georgia
- GHN
- Ghana
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Antara
- KBR
- Iran
- Iraq
- National Iraqi News Agency
- The New Region
- Israel
- ITIM
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- AKIpress news agency
- Kabar
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
N–Z
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territories
- Peru
- Andina
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Beta News Agency
- Tanjug (ceased operations, intellectual rights used by private company)
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- CNA
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Agencia EFE
- Catalan News Agency
- Europa Press
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Central News Agency
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
See also
References
- ^ "news agency | journalism | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
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- European Alliance of News Agencies
- International
- Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Paris)
- Reuters (London)
- Associated Press (AP) (New York)
- Africa & Middle East
- AllAfrica (Mauritius)
- Algeria Press Service (Algiers)
- Ethiopian News Agency (IZA) (Addis Ababa)
- Kenya News Agency (Nairobi)
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)
- News Agency of Nigeria (Abuja)
- Maghreb Arabe Press (Rabat)
- Mauritanian News Agency (Nouakchott)
- Middle East News Agency (MENA) (Cairo)
- PanaPress (Dakar)
- Tunis Afrique Presse (Tunis)
- Americas
- Agencia Boliviana de Información (La Paz)
- Agência Brasil (Brasília)
- Agencia de Noticias Fides (La Paz)
- Bloomberg (New York)
- Bolpress (La Paz)
- Canadian Press (Toronto)
- Catholic News Agency (Denver)
- Catholic News Service (America)
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (New York)
- Prensa Latina (Havana)
- Télam (Buenos Aires)
- United Press International (Boca Raton, FL)
- Asia
- Anadolu Agency (Ankara)
- Antara (Jakarta)
- Asian News International (New Delhi)
- Asia News Network (Bangkok)
- Associated Press of Pakistan (Islamabad)
- Bernama (Kuala Lumpur)
- Central News Agency (CNA) (Taipei)
- Korean Central News Agency (Pyongyang)
- Kyodo News (Tokyo)
- Islamic Republic News Agency (Tehran)
- Myanmar News Agency (Yangon)
- Myanmar Now (Yangon)
- Philippine News Agency (Quezon City)
- Press Trust of India (Delhi)
- Rastriya Samachar Samiti (Kathmandu)
- Turkmenistan State News Agency (TDH) (Turkmenistan)
- United News of India (New Delhi)
- Vietnam News Agency (Hanoi)
- Xinhua (Beijing)
- Yonhap (Seoul)
- Europe
- Agenzia Fides (Vatican City)
- Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (Rome)
- Agerpres (Bucharest)
- Albanian Telegraphic Agency (Tirana)
- Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (The Hague)
- Athens-Macedonian News Agency (Athens)
- Austria Press Agency (Vienna)
- Baltic News Service (BNS) (Tallinn)
- Belga (Brussels)
- Catalan News Agency (Barcelona)
- Czech News Agency (Prague)
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Hamburg)
- EFE (Madrid)
- FENA (Sarajevo)
- Finnish News Agency (Helsinki)
- Inter Press Service (Rome)
- Interfax (Moscow)
- LETA (Riga)
- Lusa (Lisbon)
- Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI) (Budapest)
- Norsk Telegrambyrå (Oslo)
- PA Media (London)
- Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) (Warsaw)
- RIA Novosti (Moscow)
- TASS (Moscow)
- Ritzau (Copenhagen)
- Swiss Telegraphic Agency (Bern)
- TASR (Bratislava)
- TT News Agency (Stockholm)
- Ukrinform (Kyiv)
- Zenit (Rome)
- Oceania
- Australian Associated Press (AAP) (Sydney)
- NCA NewsWire (Sydney)
- PINA (Suva)
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