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Top News Agencies in the World | World News Agencies

In this article we have listed the top news agencies in the world. Know about the top news agencies of the United States, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan and other countries.

World News Agencies

News agencies are organizations that help local, national, and international news companies to get news reports. News agencies have a number of journalists whose duty is to collect reports from various places and situations. After collecting those reports those journalists hand over all the reports (In text form or multimedia type reports, audio-video, etc) to those news agencies they work for.

Now, if a news company wants a report then they buy it from a news agency. After buying the reports the news companies represent those reports in the form of Newspaper, Magazine, Radio, Television, web, Broadcasting etc.

The oldest news agency of the world is Agency France Press known as AFP.

Characteristics and Services of News Agencies

Some of the common characteristics of a news agency are;

i) News agencies can work alone or in a group.

ii) Journalists are the entity of the news agencies.

iii) News agencies sell news to other news organizations.

iv) News agencies can be a private organization or sometimes controlled by the government.

v) The news sold by the news agencies can be modified by the news organization.

vi) Most of the news contents are not modified or little modified.

Some Important News Agencies

Interfax is a Russian news agency based in Moscow. It is a Private organization. It helps to collect news reports from Russia, China and some other nearby countries or places.

Xinhua News Agency is a news agency based in China. It has a wide network channel of collecting reports from different places of china.

The Press Association is the largest news agency in the UK and Ireland. It collects news content in multiple forms like text, images, audio, video etc.

Countries and their News Agencies

CountriesNews agencies
ArabArab news agency
AustraliaAustralian Associated press
BangladeshBangladesh sangbad sangsthan(BSS)
ChinaChina news serviceXinhua
Czech republicCetaka
FranceAgence France presse(AFP)
IndiaPress trust of India(PTI)United news of India(UNI)Indo-Asian news serviceHindustan SamacharSamachar Bharti
IndonesiaAntara
Japan-TokyoKyodo news
KyroAssociated press of pakistan
RussiaInterfaxRia NovostiInformation telegraph agency of Russia
United kingdomReuters
United statesUnited press InternationalAssociated press(AP)International news service
QatarQatar news agency

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