Asian News International

The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. The coverage includes general news, entertainment, lifestyles, business, science, sports and features. [http://www.aniin.com/ ANI] .]

Headquarters & staff

The central offices are in New Delhi and the Chairman is Prem Prakash.2006 Report, "Global news shakedown." [http://www.eamedia.org/history/2006/report/global_news Eurasian Media Forum] ] . Apparently, Prakash, was the weight behind the foundation of ANI just over 25 years ago. [Babar, Makhdoom: "Zee TV: an extension of RAW." [http://dailymailnews.com/dmsp0204/dmic08.html Pakistan's Daily Mail Daily News] , Special Report, 2005. >

Sanjiv Prakash is the Editor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Asian News International. ["WORLDVIEW to help promote financial independence." (9 February 2006) [http://www.mhzworldview.org/dl/releases/20060209.pdf MHz Networks] (Press Release, PDF format)]

The camera and reporting crews for ANI are stationed in more locations across South Asia than any other South Asian news agency, according to its official website. To economize, foreign subsribers send their crews to the New Delhi headquarters and from there, the ANI crews-for-hire are sent out to remote locations, transmitting coverage from remote places.

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