List of news agencies
News agencies were created to provide
too adapted the services of news agencies.Founded in 1835 as Agence Havas, and changing its name in 1944, Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the world's oldest news agency, and is the third largest news agency in the modern world after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.[1]
Founded in 1846, Associated Press was founded in New York in the U.S. as a not-for-profit news agency. Associated Press was challenged by the 1907 creation of
In 1851, Reuters was founded in England and is now the second largest news agency in the world with over 2,000 offices across the globe.
With the advent of
Political change in the Third World resulted in a new wave of information dissemination and a series of news agencies were born out of it. These agencies later formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP), which served as a premiere information service in the Third World.
EFE, a Spanish organization, is the biggest Spanish-language news agency, and the fourth largest worldwide. It was founded in 1939.
The largest German-language news agency is Hamburg's DPA. The oldest German news agency still in operation is the Protestant News Agency EPD, tracing back to 1876.
List
Below is the list of the principal news agencies.
A–M
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Telam
- Armenia
- Australia
- Australian Associated Press
- NCA NewsWire
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- AZERTAG
- Trend News Agency
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- BelaPAN
- BelTA
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- FENA - Federal News Agency - Federalna novinska agencija
- Brazil
- Agência Brasil
- Agência Estado
- Agência O Globo
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- The Canadian Press (La Presse Canadienne)
- Cape Verde
- China
- China News Service
- Xinhua
- CCTV+
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Middle East News Agency
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- Suomen Tietotoimisto
- France
- Germany
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur
- Evangelischer Pressedienst
- Sport-Informations-Dienst
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Asian News International
- Hindusthan Samachar
- Indo-Asian News Service
- Press Trust of India
- United News of India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- AKIpress news agency
- Kabar
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
N–Z
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå
- Norsk Telegrambyrå
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territories
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Agência Lusa
- Via News Agency
- Qatar
- Romania
- AGERPRES
- Mediafax
- Rador
- Russia
- Interfax
- Rossiya Segodnya
- Russian News Agency TASS(TASS)
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- International Islamic News Agency
- Saudi Press Agency
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Beta News Agency
- Tanjug (ceased operations, intellectual rights used by private company)
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Agencia EFE
- Catalan News Agency
- Europa Press
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Direkt
- Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Central News Agency
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
See also
References
- ^ "news agency | journalism | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.