Asian News International

Asian News International
News agency
Industry Media, News media
Founded December 9, 1971 (1971-12-09) in New Delhi, India[1]
Founder Prem Prakash[2]
Headquarters New Delhi, India[3]
Area served
India, South Asia
Key people
Owner ANI Media Private Limited[4]
Website aninews.in

Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian news agency based in New Delhi that provides multimedia news to 50 bureaus in India and most of South Asia. Coverage includes general news, entertainment, lifestyles, business, politics, science, sports and features.[5] As of 2015 the chairman of the company was Prem Prakash.[6] Sanjiv Prakash was the Editor and CEO of Asian News International.[7]

Asian News International was the first news agency in India to syndicate video news.[8] It provides video footage to a large number of Indian news channels and a few international news channels like BBC, CNN and NHK.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. "ANI MEDIA PRIVATE LIMITED - Company, directors and contact details". zaubacorp.com. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  2. Raman, Anuradha (23 December 2013). "Footaging It Fleetly". Outlook.
  3. "BD, India to sign MoU to check fake currency". The Financial Express. 4 April 2014.
  4. "Terms & Conditions". aninews.in.
  5. ANI.
  6. 2006 Report, "Global news shakedown." Eurasian Media Forum Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. "WORLDVIEW to help promote financial independence." (9 February 2006) MHz Networks (Press Release, PDF format)
  8. Saxena, Sunil. Web Journalism-The Craft & Technology. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. p. 16. ISBN 9780070680838.
  9. Paterson, Chris A.; Sreberny, Annabelle (2004). International News in the 21st Century. Georgetown University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781860205965.
  10. Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 9781932705676.
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