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 Press Trust of India

Press Trust of India (PTI) is India’s premier news agency.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 to feed the expansive appetite of the diverse subscribers, who include the mainstream media, the specialised presses, research groups, companies, and government and non-governmental organisations.

PTI correspondents are also based in leading capitals and important business and administrative centres around the world. It also has exchange arrangements with several foreign news agencies to magnify its global news footprint.

PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in 1949.  PTI has over 70 bureaus across the country and correspondents in major cities in the world.

Besides its flagship English News Service, PTI also has PTI Photo Service and news service in Hindi, India's national language.

Press Releases are distributed to PTI subscribers through PTI wires that reach subscribers through satellite, the Internet and in some case e-mail.

Currently, PTI commands 90 per cent of new agency market share in India.