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Global News Agencies

Prepared by:

Md. Mahbubul Haque OsmaniLecturer, MSJ, ULAB

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 4 big Global News Agencies

1. Agence-France Presse

(AFP)(France), 1835

2. Associated Press (AP)(USA), 1848

3. Reuters(UK), 1851

4. United Press International (USA),

1958

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• Agence France- Presse is headquartered in Paris 

• The agency was founded in 1835 by a Parisian

translator and advertising agent, Charles-Louis

Havas as Agence Havas.

• Two of his employees, Paul Reuter and Bernhard

Wolff , later set up rival news agencies in London 

and Berlin respectively• Provides services in six languages: French,

English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

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• The French government is a major

shareholder, and to this day retains a

stake of slightly under 50 percent.• Guarantees its clients “total objectivity,

editorial quality and reliability”.

• Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog andits news director Philippe Massonnet

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• American multinational non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City, founded in 1848

• Owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and

television stations in the United States • Describes itself as “ the backbone of the world's

information system” 

• Stated mission is “to provide factual coverage toall parts of the globe for use by the media around

the world.” 

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• Founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuterto distribute financial information.

• The Reuter agency was established in 1851 byPaul Julius Reuter in Britain at the London RoyalExchange.

• Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm inBerlin and was involved in distributing radical

pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in1848.

• The first newspaper client to subscribe was theLondon Morning Advertiser  in 1858

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• United Press International

• Founded in1958 as United Press International

1907 as United Press Associations

• Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States 

• Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president

•

UP emerged with the International NewsService, a news agency that had been founded

by William Randolph Hearst in 1909

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• Bartholomew succeeded in putting the "I" in

UPI on May 24, 1958

• UP and INS merged to become United Press

International.

• The new UPI now had 6,000 employees and

5,000 subscribers, about a thousand of them

newspapers

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• Since 1982, it has become much smaller, with

a different customer base and product focus.

• UPI was purchased in May 2000 by the

Unification Church's media corporation, News

World Communications, which, at the time,

also owned The Washington Times and

newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and SouthAmerica.

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• Cable News Network: founded by Ted Turnerin 1980 as a 24- hour news channel

• Became famous internationally with its live

coverage of the 1991 Gulf War• Main market is the US, but CNN International

has 160 million subscribers outside the US.

•

  “Our brand is about journalistic credibility”

 Chris Cramer, managing director, CNNInternational

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• Founded 18 October 1922

• Founder(s) John Reith and George Villiers 

•

Headquarters Broadcasting House, London• The first transmission was on 14 November of

that year

•

BBC News is the largest broadcast newsgathering operation in the world now

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• A semi-autonomous public service

broadcaster[operates under a Royal Charter 

• A licence and agreement from the Home

Secretary.

• Within the United Kingdom its work is funded

principally by an annual television licence fee, 

the level of the fee is set annually by the

British Government and agreed by Parliament.

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