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e. Reuters, Bonn 1988. A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. News agencies are known for their press releases. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire, or news service .
United Press International ( UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha ( BSS) is the news agency of Bangladesh. BSS was established on 1 January, 1972 by the Government of Bangladesh soon after the Liberation War. [1] Abul Kalam Azad is the current managing director and chief editor of the agency. [2] [3]
History and profile. The BNA was established in 1976 with the name of the Gulf News Agency. [1] In 2001 it was renamed as the Bahrain News Agency. [2] The agency is run under the Ministry of Information Affairs. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA). [3]
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
Mehr News Agency English Edition. The Mehr News Agency ( MNA; Persian: خبرگزاری مهر, romanized : Xabâr-gozâri Mehr) is a semi-official news agency of the government of Iran. [1] It is headquartered in Tehran, and is owned by the Iranian government's Islamic Development Organization (IIDO).
Xinhua News Agency. Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: / ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː / ), [3] or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a State Council 's ministry-level institution, and was founded in 1931. It is the largest media organ in China. Xinhua is a publisher, as well as a news ...
Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a statutory corporation. [a] It is the country's national news agency, supplying news reports to many domestic media organizations. It is the only organization authorized to distribute news materials created by foreign news agencies. The news agency was founded in 1937, when the country was still ...