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.
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
| Countries | News agencies |
| Arab | Arab news agency |
| Australia | Australian Associated press |
| Bangladesh | Bangladesh sangbad sangsthan(BSS) |
| China | China news serviceXinhua |
| Czech republic | Cetaka |
| France | Agence France presse(AFP) |
| India | Press trust of India(PTI)United news of India(UNI)Indo-Asian news serviceHindustan SamacharSamachar Bharti |
| Indonesia | Antara |
| Japan-Tokyo | Kyodo news |
| Kyro | Associated press of pakistan |
| Russia | InterfaxRia NovostiInformation telegraph agency of Russia |
| United kingdom | Reuters |
| United states | United press InternationalAssociated press(AP)International news service |
| Qatar | Qatar news agency |
Also Read About other General Knowledge Topics like World Organizations.
