Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed.[1] Their main offices are located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The service reports news, views and analysis from the subcontinent about the country, across a wide range of subjects, to subscribers via the Internet.[citation needed]
Formerly | Indian Abroad News Service |
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Type | News agency |
Industry | Media, News media |
Founded | 1986 |
Founder | Gopal Raju |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Asia |
Owner | Sandeep Bamzai (Editor-in-Chief & CEO) |
Website | www |
While IANS is primarily known as a wire service in English and Hindi, it also has a publishing division that currently produces newspapers and periodicals for other clients in the media industry. IANS also operates a mobile news service.[2][3]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "Gopal Raju, 80, publishing pioneer". Boston.com, Associated Press. April 12, 2008.
- ^ Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.
- ^ "About Us". IANS.
Further readingEdit
- Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.