Press Trust of India

Press Trust of India (PTI) is India’s largest news agency, supplying news, photographs, and other information services to media organizations.

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News agency: An organization that gathers and distributes news to subscribing media outlets. PTI operates as a national news agency serving newspapers, broadcasters, and digital publishers.
Reuters: An international news agency founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter. Reuters was a major foreign agency in India before PTI established an Indian-owned alternative.
Newspaper: A regularly published print or digital publication reporting news and other material. Newspapers have long used PTI reports to supplement their own reporting.
United News of India: An Indian news agency founded in 1961 that supplies news to media organizations. UNI is PTI’s principal domestic competitor among Indian news agencies.
Indian media: The institutions and channels that produce and distribute media content in India. PTI connects many outlets within India’s diverse media landscape.
Newswire: A system or service for rapidly distributing news reports to multiple subscribers. PTI sends reports to client organizations for publication and broadcast.
Associated Press of India: A news agency established in British India and associated with Reuters’ Indian operations. PTI’s creation followed the earlier agency’s place in India’s news system.
Broadcast journalism: Journalism produced for radio, television, or other broadcast media. PTI content provides news material for broadcasters as well as print outlets.
Agence France-Presse: A French international news agency founded in 1944. AFP represents a global agency model against which PTI’s national role can be compared.
Media pluralism: The presence of diverse media owners, outlets, and viewpoints in a society. A shared agency can broaden access to reporting while concentrating the supply of common material.