Write a short note on News Agencies

News Agencies are organisation which collects or gathers news and supplies to different newspapers, magazines, televisions and radio stations. News agencies form a major part of the print media, without which many newspapers would find it difficult to function.  Newspapers pay a monthly or yearly subscription fees to news agencies for the news they receive.

Press Trust of India (PTI), United News of India (UNI) and Indo Asian News Service (IANS)  are the main news agencies of India. 

Press Trust of India was founded in  1949 while United News of India  was formed in 1961.

Agence France-Presse (or AFP) is the oldest news agency of the world. Later on Reuters was founded in England and Deutsche Presse-Agentur (or DPA) was founded in Berlin. With the advent of communism in Russia, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (or TASS) was founded. 

Xinhua was later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese Soviet Republic. 

With the advent of freedom in the newly liberated regions of the third world, a new wave of information dissemination had taken over and a series of news agencies were born out of it. These agencies later on formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAMP). 

The NANAP served as a premiere information service among the countries of the third world.

Write a short note on Agence France Presse (AFP)

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French news agency established in 1944. It is the oldest  and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. AFP is headquartered in Paris.

The agency was created in 1832 by a Parisian translator and advertising agent, Charles-Louis Havas as Agence Havas. Established as a state enterprise, AFP devoted the post-war years to developing its network of international correspondents.

AFP covers the world with a combined 5,000 stories a day in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic.

AFP’s breaking news is filled out by in-depth analyses, interviews, reactions, features, profiles of the people in the news, chronologies and fact boxes. The news is carefully checked and edited before transmission.

AFP-Direct: International breaking news in real-time with online access to customized news and archives.

AFP Video produces more than 1,000 videos per month for broadcasters, websites, mobile operators, public screen suppliers and new devices.

With more than 80 production units around the world, supported by AFP's network of 2,900 reporters, photographers and editors, AFP Video covers a breadth of exciting topics from top stories, news reports and sports to entertainment, environment and offbeat.

AFP award winning photographers deliver up to 3,000 images a day as the news breaks, from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to the catwalks of Milan and Paris. Together with its 26 partners, AFP produces 5,000 new photos every day.