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 short notes on Indo Asian News Service

The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the India Abroad News Service in 1986. Later it was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service. The IANS has main offices located in New Delhi.

IANS serves several hundred outlets across the entire media spectrum, in India and around the world. It performs a whole range of other information services as well.

IANS is divided into six Strategic Business Units (SBUs): IANS English, IANS Hindi, IANS Publishing, IANS Business Consultancy, IANS Solutions, and IANS Mobile.

The News Service, in both English and Hindi, forms the heart of the IANS operation. It presents objective, user-friendly news with a global perspective. This makes it the preferred, content provider and knowledge resource on India, Indians and South Asia.

IANS breaks through often cliched and stereotyped reporting about this part of the world. Its talented team of journalists and contributors - some of the best in India - produces a steady output of diverse, well-researched news and backgrounders, features, interviews, analyses and commentaries.

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.