Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
Scripps and the International News Service in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst.
Xinhua was later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese Soviet Republic.
EFE, a Spanish organization, is the biggest Spanish-language news agency, and the fourth largest worldwide.
The largest German-language news agency is Hamburg's DPA.