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Com Sci- ch 6 (NEWS AGENCIES (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (1835
Oldest and 3rd…
Com Sci- ch 6
NEWS AGENCIES
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
1835
- Oldest and 3rd largest news agency in the world
- Based in Paris, France.
- Founded as a liberation movement.
- Independent, not controlled by any ideological, political or economic group.
- Granted independence by the French parliament in 1957.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1846
- Largest news agency in the world.
- Based in New York, USA.
- Not-for-profit news cooperative
- First private sector org in US to operate on a national scale.
- Employs the 'inverted pyramid' formula:
-enables its news outlets to edit a story to fit its publication area without losing the story's essentials.
- They have accepted left-wing premises intended to help advance a liberal political agenda.
REUTERS
1851
- 2nd largest news agency.
- Based in London, UK.
- Reuters Handbook of Journalism
- Reuters merged with Thompson Corporation in Canada in 2008, forming Thompson Reuters.
- Mission: to provide financial information to the global financial markets and to supply news services to media subscribers worldwide.
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BROADCASTERS
CNN INTERNATIONAL
- 1980
- American news channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.
- Upon its launch, CNN was the first TV channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the 1st all-news TV channel in US.
- The #1 digital news source and also #1 on social media
VOICE OF AMERICA
- U.S government-funded multimedia news source & official external broadcasting institution of U.S.
- A multilingual radio broadcasting service that began in 1942.
BBC NEWS
The most frequently accessed news website in the UK.
- In a recent international survey of 14 countries, BBC was rated highest of 66 major TV channels.
BBC WORLD
The BBC's international news and current affairs TV channel.
- Has the largest audience of any BBC channel.
- Launched in 1991
- Most commonly watched as a free-to-air channel