Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.^[4] It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 500 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees as of 1 January 2022^[update], including about 400 journalists. It also has nearly 400 part-time correspondents in most of the district headquarters of the country.^[5] PTI also has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres around the world. It was incorporated in Madras in 1947 with The Hindu's proprietor, Kasturi Srinivasan, as its Founding Chairman. It took over the operations of the Associated Press of India from Reuters in 1948–49.^[6]^[7] It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Overview of PTI

PTI exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such as Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times and Bloomberg L.P. Major Indian subscribers of PTI include The Hindu, The Times of India, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Statesman, The Tribune, News 18, NDTV, India Today, the All India Radio, Doordarshan, and The Wire. PTI has offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, New York City, and Washington D.C.^[12]

Its current chairman is Aveek Sarkar.^[13] He is also the vice chairman of ABP group.^[14]

History of PTI

Citations

^ "Press Trust of India sacks 297 staff in one day / IFJ". International Federation of Journalists. 26 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
^ "Contact us". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
^ "Viveck Goenka of Indian Express elected new PTI Chairman". India Today. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
^ Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIES Archived 5 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Overview of PTU". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ a b About PTI, Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
^ a b "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. pp. 16, 21.
^ Mehta, Archit (9 April 2020). "Communal attack in Bawana shared with false claim of Muslim man injecting fruits with spittle". Alt News. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
^ Roy, Shreyashi (14 February 2020). "2 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Kolkata? No, Media Misreported". The Quint. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
^ Alphonso, Anmol (22 April 2020). "PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching". BOOM. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
^ Dubbudu, Rakesh (19 July 2017). "Has the UP Govt Slashed Funds for Education? Here's a Fact Check". The Quint. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
^ "Press Trust of India". AsiaNet. Archived from the original on 25 March 2024.
^ "Aveek Sarkar is new PTI Chairman". The Tribune (Chandigarh). 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ "ABP's Aveek Sarkar new PTI chairman". The Times of India. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. p. 10.
^ Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 51. ISBN 9781932705676.

General bibliography

Aggarwal, S. K. (1989). Media Credibility. Mittal Publications. ISBN 9788170991571.
Jones, Derek, ed. (2015). Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9781136798634.
Kanung, Chitra (2001). Freedom Under Assault. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 114. ISBN 9788176482264.
Kumar, Keval J. (2000). Mass Communication in India. Jaico Publishing House. ISBN 9788172243739.
Mehta, D. S. (1979). Mass Communication and Journalism in India. Allied Publishers. ISBN 9788170233534.
Sharma, Diwakar (2004). Mass Communication: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Deep and Deep Publications. ISBN 9788176295079.

External links

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