NEWS AGENCY

News agency, also called press agency, press association, wire service, or news service, organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not generally publish news itself but supplies news to its subscribers, who, by sharing costs, obtain services they could not otherwise afford. All the mass media depend upon the agencies for the bulk of the news, even including those few that have extensive news-gathering resources of their own.

The news agency has a variety of forms. In some large cities, newspapers and radio and television stations have joined forces to obtain routine coverage of news about the police, courts, government offices, and the like. National agencies have extended the area of such coverage by gathering and distributing stock-market quotations, sports results, and election reports. A few agencies have extended their service to include worldwide news. The service has grown to include news interpretation, special columns, news photographs, audiotape recordings for radio broadcast, and often videotape or motion-picture film for television news reports. Many agencies are cooperatives, and the trend has been in that direction since World War II.

Under this form of organization, individual members provide news from their own circulation areas to an agency pool for general use. In major news centres the national and worldwide agencies have their own reporters to cover important events, and they maintain offices to facilitate distribution of their service.

The major press associations in the United States have expanded their service to include entertainment features, and some feature syndicates provide straight news coverage as a part of their service. The Newspaper Enterprise Association distributes both news and features in the United States.

Despite the plethora of news services, most news printed and broadcast throughout the world each day comes from only a few major agencies, the three largest of which are the Associated Press in the United States, Reuters in Great Britain, and Agence France-Presse in France. Only these and a few others have the financial resources to station experienced reporters in all areas of the world where news develops regularly (in order to ensure access to well-organized transmission facilities) or to send them wherever news develops unexpectedly. These agencies are also equipped to distribute the service almost instantaneously.

The world agencies have established a variety of relationships with other agencies and with individual news media. Most of them purchase the news services of national or local agencies to supplement news gathered by their own staff representatives at key points. Reuters, like the Agence France-Presse, supplies a worldwide news file to be distributed by some national agencies along with their domestic news reports. The American services more often contract to deliver their service directly to individual users abroad.

PROFILE OF NEWS AGENCIES

The Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Founded in 1949, PTI has, with largest domestic newspaper clients with 450 Indian newspapers . PTI provides news coverage in both English and Hindi Language Press Trust of India disseminate news with high tech technology end by using own satellite, , to broadcast news and information Agency offering computerized operations. The agency has news exchange arrangement with the with 100 news agencies of nation like the U.S., U.K., gulf region, European nations, Caribbean nations , African nations and also deployed agency correspondence on major international country capital., It has tie-up with 100 news.The news agency for cost cutting mechanism has tie up with a IT company for storage of news agency database .

Press Trust of India (PTI)

·         PTI is India’s premier news agency, headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit 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. Collectively, they put out more than 2,000 stories and 200 photographs a day. It’s Hindi service is called Bhasha.

·         PTI correspondents are based in all important news centers around the world. It also has tie-up with several foreign news agencies. Currently, PTI commands 90% of new agency market share in India.

·         PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in 1949. PTI is run by a Board of Directors with the Chairmanship going by rotation at the Annual General Meeting. The day-to-day administration and management of PTI is headed by the CEO, who is also the Editor-in-Chief. It’s board of directors includes owner/editor of most of the leading publications in India like, Vineet Jain, Aveek Sarkar, Viveck Goenka, N Ravi etc.

United News of India

UNI Established in 1961, UNI became one of the leading news agency in Indian domestic market but have distinction that first Indian agency to generate revenue from international subscriber and pan Indian presence and international foot print in for news flow its Hindi version also a very good reputation in the area of Hindi news agencies journalism

IANS Indo-Asian News Service

IANS an internationally news content supplier platforms, an news resource on India and South Asia. It is a leading a south Asian region news agency delivered the news from India, South Asia region. IANS is an intergraded news agency with presence of publishing outsources, a multimedia content provider services.

·         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.

·         IANS is divided into six strategic business units: IANS English, IANS Hindi, IANS Publishing, IANS Business Consultancy, IANS Solutions, and IANS Mobile.

·         Its client list includes a range of print publications, television news channels, websites, ethnic publications abroad, government ministries, foreign missions, private sector players, and multilateral institutions.

·         Tarun Basuis the Chief Editor and Director of the IANS.

Asian News International (ANI)

Asian News International ANI is has hundred news bureau in India .To deliver news content to television channels, radio stations, newspapers, websites with excellent input in form of video-audio, text and picture content. Agency also provides service to foreign and domestic channels to package their reports in India and uplink via satellite.

·         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.

·         ANI also provide a range of facilities for foreign and domestic channels to package their reports in India and uplink via satellite. These include provision of professional crews, editing and post production facilities, access to archives, uplinking facilities, coordinators, producers and correspondents, as per requirement.

·         ANI services includes loosely edited news feeds and customized programmes for television channels, audio bytes for radio stations, live web casting and streamed multimedia / text content for websites and mobile carriers, and news wire services for newspapers, magazines and websites.

Hindustan Samachar

·         The Hindusthan Samacharwas formed on 1st Dec. 1948, and provide news in 14 Indian languages. It’s subscribers includes AIR, Doordarshan, various State Governments, Nepal Radio and a number of regional papers.

·         Presently the service is being provided in Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati, Nepali, Oriya, Asamiya, Kannad, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Punjabi and Bangla. The service is fully based on the web internet technology. The subscriber can either downloaded the next or convert it into E-mail format.

·         In India this agency has offices in all the states. The news circulated in all the Indian languages by Hindusthan Samachar could be checked on the Website www.hindusthansamachar.com

Associated Press

 American multinational agency established in the year 1846. It  is an  nonprofit news agency . Associated Press network is exists in all major international city & country around the all continental.

·         AP is a non-profit cooperative organization established in 1846 in NewYork

·         AP was created by the coalescing of 5 dailies and is now owned by a large number of US newspapers and radio and T.V. Stations

·         It operates 243 bureaus in nearly 120 countries, with an international staff located worldwide

·         It is sustained by the subscription fees that it charges its media clients
spread all over the world

·         Its website claims that on any given day more than half of the world’s population consumes the news provided by AP

·         Associated Press also operates the Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice an hour and offers news and public affairs features, feeds of news sound bites, and long form coverage of major events. It also operates Associated Press Television News (APTN), a global video news agency.

Reuter

The Reuters news agency has been an outcome of Thomson Reuters. Reuters was established in 1851 & it footprints in 250 nations most of the top language of the world.  Reuters‘ agency has built a dominant image in the news agency journalism worldwide . Reuters has very strong subscription base in all the continent in Reuter started news service initially as electric telegraphy , carrier pigeons in his network.

·         Founded by the Paul Julius Reuter (A German National) in 1851

·         From the 1860 -1914; Reuters was an imperial organization, the semi-official institution of the British Empire

·         From the American Civil War to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Reuters was the first to break the news and thereby it established a reputation of being a credible deliverer of information in real time

·         It is a major provider of commercial information like foreign exchange rates, stock exchange prices, commodity prices etc.

·         Reuters is listed on both the London and New York stock exchange

·         Reuters receives only 10% of its revenues from the subscription, whereas the 90% of it comes from the clients of its financial services

·         Headquartered in London, the organization was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008 and is now owned by Thomson Reuters

Interfax

Interfax news agency founded in 1989. It is top most new s agency of Russia from the private sectors and counted as the top news agencies of the world.

Agence France Presse

AFP is France based leading news agencies of the world founded in 1835 . It is the largest and leading news agency based in France. It covers almost 180 countries under it s news content delivery network in multilingual mode.

Agence France-Presse (AFP)

·         AFP is an oldest international news agency headuartered in Paris

·         AFP has regional offices in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C., and bureaux in 150 countries

·         It transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Portguese, Spanish & German

·         AFP is a non profit autonomous public corporation chartered under a specific 1957 law, operating commercially and independently of the French government

·         AFP is administered by a CEO and a board comprising 15 members; among them 8 are representative of the French Press, 2 are AFP personnel, 2 are from public services of Radio and Television and 3 are from the public service subscribing to the agency, named by prime minister, minister of finances and minister of foreign affairs. The board elects the CEO for a renewable term of 3 years

·         The primary client of AFP is the French Government, who purchases subscription for its various services. In practice, those subscription are somewhat a subsidy to AFP

United Press International

United Press International It is founded in 1907 and leading news agency of USA . United Press International is one of the leading news agencies of the world and deliver quality news content in multimedia format at all major world destination . The analytical outcome of economic so much practical as policies of certain company are formulate on the news input of agency. UPI is integrated news agency as it have its news papers, radio and news websites.