List of news agencies

News agencies were created with the single aim to enrich Algeria Press Service
newspapers with a wide variety of news events happen-
ing around the world. Initially the agencies were meant Angola
to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with ANGOP (Agncia Angola Press / Angola
the passage of time the rapidly developing modern medi- Press Agency)
ums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the
services of news agencies. Argentina
Founded in 1835, Associated Press (AP) was the rst Agencia de Noticias San Luis
news agency in the world. It was founded in New York in
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the U.S. as a not-for-prot news agency. Associated Press
was challenged by the 1907 creation of United Press As- Armenia
sociations by E.W. Scripps and the International News
Service in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst. United Armenpress
Press absorbed INS to form United Press International in PanARMENIAN.Net
1958. In 1851 Reuters was founded in England. In 1944
Agence France-Presse (AFP) was founded, becoming the Australia
third-biggest news agency after AP and Reuters. With the Australian Associated Press
advent of communism in Russia, Telegraph Agency of the
Soviet Union (TASS) was founded in 1925. Xinhua was Austria
later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese
Soviet Republic. Political change in the Third World re- Austria Press Agency
sulted in a new wave of information dissemination and a Azerbaijan
series of news agencies were born out of it. These agen-
cies later formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Azerbaijan Press Agency
Pool (NANAP), which served as a premiere information AzerTaj
service in the Third World.
Trend News Agency
Bahrain
1 List Bahrain News Agency

Below is the list of the principal news agencies. Bangladesh

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
Mohammadi News Agency
United News of Bangladesh
1.1 AM Belarus
Afghanistan BelaPAN

Afghan Islamic Press BelTA

Bakhtar News Agency Belgium

Khaama Press Belga
Pajhwok Afghan News Bhutan
Albania Bhutan News Service
Albanian Telegraphic Agency Bolivia
Algeria Agencia Boliviana de Informacin

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Bolpress Fiji
Botswana Pacnews
Botswana Press Agency Finland
Brazil Suomen Tietotoimisto
Agncia Brasil France
Agncia Estado
Agence France-Presse
Agncia O Globo
Germany
Bulgaria
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Bulgarian News Agency
Georgia
Cambodia
GHN
Agence Kampuchea Press
Ghana
Canada
Ghana News Agency
The Canadian Press (La Presse Canadienne)
Greece
China
Athens-Macedonian News Agency
China News Service
Xinhua Guatemala

Croatia Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias

HINA Hungary

Cuba Magyar Tvirati Iroda

Prensa Latina India

Cyprus Asian News International

Gna News Agency-GNA
Cyprus News Agency
Hindusthan Samachar
Czech Republic
Indo-Asian News Service
Czech News Agency Press Trust of India
Denmark Samachar Bharti
United News of India
Ritzau
Indonesia
East Timor
Antara
Timor-Leste News Agency
Iran
Ecuador
Fars News Agency
Public News Agency of Ecuador and South
America Iranian Labour News Agency
Islamic Republic News Agency
Egypt
Iranian Students News Agency
Middle East News Agency
Mehr News Agency
Estonia Tasnim News Agency
Baltic News Service Iraq
Ethiopia National Iraqi News Agency
Ethiopian News Agency Peyamner News Agency
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Israel Liberia
ITIM Liberia News Agency
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Lithuania
JNS.org
ELTA
Italy
Macedonia
Adnkronos
Macedonian Information Agency
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
Makfax
Agenzia Giornalistica RCS
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata Malawi
Agenzia Stefani Malawi News Agency
Ansa Mediterranean
Malaysia
APCOM
Bernama
ASCA
AsiaNews Mauritania
Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor Agence Mauritanienne d'Information
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Mexico
MF Dow Jones News
Notimex
Ivory Coast
Moldova
Agence Ivoirienne de Presse
Moldpres
Japan
Mongolia
Jiji Press
Kyodo News Montsame

Jordan Montenegro

Jordan News Agency Montenegrin News Agency

Kenya Morocco

Kenya News Agency Maghreb Arabe Press

Kosovo Myanmar

Kosova Press Myanmar News Agency

Kuwait
1.2 NZ
Kuwait News Agency
Namibia
Kyrgyzstan
Namibia Press Agency
AKIpress news agency
Kabar Nepal

Laos Rastriya Samachar Samiti

Lao News Agency Netherlands

Latvia Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP)

LETA Nigeria

Lebanon News Agency of Nigeria

National News Agency North Korea
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Korean Central News Agency Senegal

Norway PanaPress
Avisenes Nyhetsbyr Serbia
Norsk Telegrambyr Beta News Agency
Oman Tanjug
Oman News Agency Seychelles
Pakistan Seychelles News Agency
Associated Press of Pakistan Slovakia
Associated Press Service News Agency of the Slovak Republic
Pakistan Press International
Slovenia
Palestinian Territories
Slovenian Press Agency
Ma'an News Agency
South Africa
Wafa
African News Agency
Panama
South Korea
Agencia de Noticias Panam
Yonhap News Agency
Peru
South Sudan
Andina
South Sudan News Agency
Philippines
Spain
Philippines News Agency
Agencia EFE
Poland
Catalan News Agency
Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP)
Europa Press
Portugal
Sri Lanka
Agncia Lusa
Lankapuvath
Qatar
Sudan
Qatar News Agency
Sudan News Agency
Romania
Sweden
AGERPRES
Tidningarnas Telegrambyr
Mediafax
Switzerland
Russia
Schweizerische Depeschenagentur
Interfax
Rossiya Segodnya Syria

Russian News Agency TASS (TASS) Hawar News Agency

So Tom and Prncipe Syrian Arab News Agency

Agncia Noticiosa de So Tom e Prncipe Taiwan

Saudi Arabia Central News Agency

International Islamic News Agency Tajikistan

Saudi Press Agency Khovar

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Thailand Agencia Venezolana de Noticias

National News Bureau of Thailand Vietnam
Thai News Agency Vietnam News Agency
Tunisia Yemen
Tunis Afrique Presse Saba News Agency
Turkey
Anadolu Agency 2 See also
ANKA news agency
Doan News Agency 3 References
Turkmenistan
TDH 4 External links
Ukraine
Ukrainian Independent Information Agency
Ukrainian News Agency
Ukrinform
United Arab Emirates
Emirates News Agency
United Kingdom
Press Association
Reuters
United States
All Headline News
Associated Press
Bloomberg News
Catholic News Agency
Catholic News Service
Conservative News Agency of New York
(CNA-NY)
PR Newswire
Religion News Service
United Press International
Uruguay
MercoPress
Uzbekistan
The Uzbek Telegraph Agency (UzTAG)
Uzbekistan National News Agency
Vatican City
Agenzia Fides
Venezuela
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