Asian News International

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The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. The coverage includes general news, entertainment, lifestyles, business, science, sports and features.^[1]

Contents 1 Headquarters & staff 2 Subscribers 3 Footnotes 4 External links

[edit] Headquarters & staff

The central offices are in New Delhi and the Chairman is Prem Prakash.^[2]. Apparently, Prakash, once just a camera operator, was the weight behind the foundation of ANI just over 25 years ago.^[3] Today, he is one of the most prominent people from India, being called upon to attended international media-related conferences, such as those organized by the Eurasian Media Forum.^[2]

Sanjiv Prakash is the Editor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Asian News International.^[4]

The camera and reporting crews for ANI are stationed in more locations across South Asia than any other South Asian news agency, according to its official website.^[1] To economize, foreign subsribers send their crews to the New Delhi headquarters and from there, the ANI crews-for-hire are sent out to remote locations, transmitting coverage from remote places.^[1]

Prem Prakash and Sanjiv Prakash write many, possibly most, of the ANI articles, excluding the ongoing flow of reports that are published by ANI subscribers.

[edit] Subscribers

• Cable News Network
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• National Broadcasting Company
• Public Broadcasting Service
• NRK - (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
• NHK - (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation)
• ZDF - (German television)
• Zee TV - India-based satellite channel of the Zee Network
• China Daily
• Daily India
• Hindustan Times
• Lexis Nexus
• MHz Worldview
• Yahoo!
• Google

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b c} ANI.
2. ^ ^{a b} 2006 Report, "Global news shakedown." Eurasian Media Forum
3. ^ Babar, Makhdoom: "Zee TV: an extension of RAW." Pakistan's Daily Mail Daily News, Special Report, 2005. In this report, Makhdoom, the Editor-in-chief for his newspaper, theorizes that the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, controls many media outlets, including ANI.
4. ^ "WORLDVIEW to help promote financial independence." (9 February 2006) MHz Networks (Press Release, PDF format)

[edit] External links

• Asian News International (official site)