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Press Trust of India
The Press Trust of India (PTI), the largest news agency in India and one of the largest news agency enterprises in the global South, disseminates news and sundry information globally in English, Hindi, Arabic, French, and Spanish. This entry reviews the history and offerings, as well as operations, of PTI.
History
In 1878, disseminating news in the Indian subcontinent under British colonial rule was carried out by a press commissioner. In 1910, the news agency Associated Press of India was set up; after 9 years, Reuters took it over. Another agency, the United Press of India, began in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1933. In 1945, Associated Press of India, with Reuters as owner, registered as an Indian company.
On August 27, 1947, shortly after India gained independence from ...
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- Economics of Media
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- Capitalism
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- Corporate Media Consolidation
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- Movie Theaters, History and Economics of
- Movies, History and Economics of
- Music Industry, History and Economics of
- Newspaper Publishing
- Newspapers, History and Economics of
- Radio, History and Economics of
- Television, History and Economics of
- Transnational Media Corporations
- Unfair Trade Practices
- Vertical Integration
- Ethics and Social Implications
- Action for Children’s Television
- Addiction
- Advocacy
- Audiences
- Body Image in Mass Media
- Class Privilege in Mass Media
- Critical Viewing
- Culture Industry
- Culture Jamming
- Cyberbullying
- Cyberculture
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- Digital Media Ethics
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- Ethics of Justice
- Ethics of Representation
- European Union Culture Preservation Initiative
- Fake News
- Fans and Fandom
- Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
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- National Press Photographers Association Code of Ethics
- Nerd Culture
- One Laptop per Child
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- Photography
- Political Mass Media
- Pornography
- Problematic Interactive Media Use
- Propaganda
- Propaganda, Theories of
- Public Diplomacy
- Public Relations Society of America Code of Ethics
- Representation
- Senior Citizens and the Internet
- Sexual Harassment Online
- Social Inclusion Through Technology
- Social Justice
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- Terrorism, Media Depictions of
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- Whistleblowing
- Film
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- Interviewing
- Journalism, History and Economics of
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- Communications Act of 1934
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- Digital Rights Management
- European Media Lobbies and Governance
- Fairness Doctrine
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- Radio Act of 1927
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- Telecommunications Act of 1993, Canada
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- Comics
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- Comics
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- Graphic Novels
- LGBTQ Magazines
- LGBTQ Newspapers
- LGBTQ Radio Programming
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- Men’s Magazines
- NewsGuild
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- Photography
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- Pravda
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- USA Today
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- Washington Post, The
- Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
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- Bertelsmann
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- China Central Television
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- Discovery, Inc.
- Foursquare
- France Télévisions
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- Kuwait News Agency
- Māori Television
- Myspace
- Naspers
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- Netflix
- News Corporation
- Pakistan Television Corporation
- People’s Daily
- Prasar Bharati
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- Rogers Communications
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- South African Broadcasting Corporation
- Star India
- Telefe
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- Tencent
- Thai TV Global Network
- TNT
- United Press International
- Vatican Radio
- Voice of America
- Walt Disney Company
- WarnerMedia
- Xinhua News Agency
- Yahoo
- YouTube
- Media Research and Theories
- Agenda Setting
- Alterity
- Animal Media Studies
- Attention Span
- Attitude Change Theory
- Behaviorism and Cognitivism
- British Cultural Theory
- Class-Dominant Theory
- Cognition and Information Processing
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Cognitive Processing, Disengagement, and Empathy
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- Conceptual Metaphor Theory
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- Environmental Communication
- Ethnography
- Feedback
- Feminist Analyses of Media
- Field Theory
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- Framing
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- Functionalist Theory
- Gaze Theory
- Genre Theory
- Global Village
- Grounded Theory
- Hegemony
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- Hypodermic Needle Theory
- Ideology
- Impartiality
- Information Society
- Information Theory
- Intercultural Communication
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- Intersectionality
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- Interviewing
- Island Communicative Ecology
- Labelling Theory
- Limited Effects Theory
- Linguistics
- Listening
- Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories
- Mass Psychology
- Mass Society Theory of Media Influence
- Media Echo Chamber
- Media Ecology
- Mediated Culture
- Mediatization
- Medium
- Models of Communication
- Modernism
- Moral Relativity
- Narcotizing Dysfunction
- Nihilism
- Norms
- Objectivity
- Observational Research
- Obstinate Audience Theory
- One-Step Flow Theory
- Opinion Leaders and Followers
- Paradigm Shift
- Parasocial Interaction
- Participatory Action Research
- Perception
- Political Communication
- Political Economy of Communication
- Posthumanism
- Postmodernism
- Priming
- Propaganda
- Propaganda, Theories of
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Psychographics
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Ritual View
- Science Communication
- Selective Exposure, Perception, and Retention
- Semiotic Theory
- Simulacrum
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- Social Cognitive Theory
- Social Construction of Reality
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- Strategic Communication
- Structuralism
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- Survey Research
- Transmission View
- Two-Step Flow Theory
- Uses and Gratifications Theory
- Music
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- Alliance for Audited Media
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Copy Editors Society
- American Forces Network
- American Press Institute
- American Society of News Editors
- Association for Women in Communications
- Broadcast Education Association
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Center for Media and Public Affairs
- Center for the Book
- Center on Media and Child Health
- Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Centre for Digital Cultures
- European Alliance of News Agencies
- Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Institute of Communication and Media Studies
- International Association of Business Communicators
- International Federation of Journalists
- International Women’s Media Foundation
- Internet Association
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Protocol Television
- Magazines Canada
- Motion Picture Association of America
- National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
- National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications
- National Association of Black Journalists
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Film Board of Canada
- National Press Photographers Association
- National Press Photographers Association Code of Ethics
- National Union of Journalists
- NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists
- Paley Center for Media
- Press Trust of India
- Public Relations Society of America
- Public Relations Society of America Code of Ethics
- Recording Industry Association of America
- Reporters Without Borders
- SAG-AFTRA
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- Society of Professional Journalists
- World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
- Race and Ethnicity
- Chicago Defender
- Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
- African American Characters on Television and in the Movies
- African American Magazines
- African American Newspapers
- African American Radio Programming
- African American Television Programming
- Asian American Magazines
- Asian American Movies
- Asian American Newspapers
- Asian American Radio Programming
- Asian American Television Programming
- Hispanic Movies
- Hispanic Newspapers
- Hispanic Radio Programming
- Hispanic Television Programming
- Māori Television
- Native American Movies
- Native American Newspapers
- Native American Radio Programming
- Native American Television Programming
- Technology
- Analog and Digital Communications
- Application Programming Interface
- Apps
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audio Editing
- Autonomous Moral Agent
- Avatars
- BitTorrent
- Blu-ray Discs
- Bookmarking
- Cassette Tapes
- Compact Discs
- Computer Networks
- Computers, History and Economics of
- Cyberbullying
- Cyberculture
- Data Journalism
- Diasporic Communities and Social Media
- Digital Media and Health
- Digital Media Ethics
- Digital Piracy
- Digital Revolution
- Digital Rights Management
- Drone Journalism
- Dubbing
- DVDs
- e-Commerce
- Educational Technology
- Emergency Notification Systems
- Emoticons and Emojis
- e-Sports
- Freeware
- Global Digital Divide
- Hacking
- Hacktivism
- HTML and CSS
- Hypertext and Hypermedia
- Integrated Circuit
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Security
- Internet Society
- Internet, History and Economics of
- Meme
- Mobile Media
- MP3 Players
- Multimedia
- One Laptop per Child
- Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- Peer-to-Peer Payment Systems
- Podcasting
- Really Simple Syndication
- RFID Chip
- RSS Reader
- Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engines
- Sexting
- Silicon Alley
- Silicon Valley
- SlideShare
- Social Inclusion Through Technology
- Software
- Tag Cloud
- Tape Recorders
- Technology Development, Influence on Mass Media
- Tencent
- TiVo
- Web Browsers
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