News agencies play a crucial role in collecting, writing and distributing reports. These agencies cater to broadcast stations, newspapers and alternative news platforms.

1. EXTERNAL NEWS SOURCES
(NEWS AGENCIES)
Dr. Amaresh Jha

2. What are the external sources of input for
a news channel?
• A lot of news is produced by news agencies, also known
as news services or wire services. These agencies have
reporters in many countries and supply news stories to
newspapers, websites, and broadcasting stations.
However, most of them are centrally organized and based
in a particular country.
• Sometimes websites and library databases provide
location information for news services, and sometimes
they do not. So it’s not always easy to tell where they are
based.

3. 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.

4. United Press International (UPI)
• 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.

5. 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.

6. Reuters
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.

7. 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.

8. DPA DEUTSCHE PRESS AGENCY
Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (DPA; German Press
Agency) is a German news agency founded in 1949. 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.

9. 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. The SPA has offices in
Bonn, Cairo, London, Tunis and Washington, DC.

10. ITAAR TAS (INFORMATION
TELEGRAPH AGENCY OF RUSSIA )
• TASS 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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