List of news agencies

Main article: News agency

News agencies were created with a single aim to enrich the newspapers with a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to the newspapers but with the passage of time, the rapidly developing modern mediums such as the radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.

Agence France-Presse (or AFP) is the oldest news agency of the world. Later on Reuters was founded in England and Deutsche Presse-Agentur (or DPA) was founded in Berlin. With the advent of communism in Russia, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (or TASS) was founded. Xinhua was later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese Soviet Republic. With the advent of freedom in the newly liberated regions of the Third World, a new wave of information dissemination had taken over and a series of news agencies were born out of it. These agencies later on formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP). The NANAP served as a premiere information service among the countries of the Third World.

List

Below is the list of the principal news agencies.

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