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Entity Type: Domestic Media Company

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

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Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) is an Italian news agency founded in July 1950 by journalist Giulio De Marzio and lawyer Walter Prosperetti. The agency has been controlled by Italian state energy company Eni since 1965. Based in Rome, AGI maintains 15 regional editorial offices across Italy and a foreign bureau in Brussels. The agency produces over 1,000 daily news bulletins covering politics, economics, international affairs, culture, and sports, and publishes in seven languages, including Italian, English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. AGI was among Italian media outlets that established partnerships with Chinese state media in the 2010s.

Reuters Agency

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Reuters is a British news agency established in London in October 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur who pioneered the use of telegraph technology for news transmission. The agency provides news content, multimedia, and financial data to media organizations, businesses, and professionals globally through its Reuters Connect platform and various information services. Reuters currently employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists, posted at approximately 200 locations worldwide and producing content in 16 languages. The agency has won more than 300 awards for its news coverage in the past decade, including 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting and Breaking News Photography.

RCS Media Group

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RCS Media Group is one of Italy’s leading multimedia publishing groups, operating across newspapers, magazines, digital media, books, television, and advertising. The group also organises major sporting events. Founded in 1927, the group — which claims a commitment to freedom, fairness, and pluralism — operates in Italy and Spain. RCS publishes the daily newspapers Corriere della Sera, La Gazzetta dello Sport, El Mundo, Marca, and Expansión.

Aus-China TV Media

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AUS-China TV Media (澳華電視傳媒), abbreviated as ACTV, is a Sydney-based multimedia company founded on February 21, 2006, that closely collaborates with China’s official state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), under the CCP’s China Media Group (CMG). According to CCTV’s website, the company is registered with the Australian Taxation Office and has “always cooperated” with CCTV-4’s “Chinese World” program since its establishment, providing content about Australian Chinese communities. Led by Chairman James Ren (任傳功), ACTV positions itself as a bridge connecting overseas Chinese communities with China while explicitly supporting Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and the “Chinese Dream” (中國夢). The company describes itself as focused on “overseas Chinese media unity” — according to a profile on the CCTV website from 2012 — and claims to promote “the prosperity and stability of multicultural Australia” and “mutual understanding between Australia and Asia-Pacific countries including China.”

The Post-Courier

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The Post-Courier is the nation’s first daily newspaper, established on 30 June 1969 and headquartered in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Majority owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia, the publication was formed through the merger of two newspapers: the three-days-a-week South Pacific Post and the twice-weekly New Guinea Times Courier. The newspaper operates as Papua New Guinea’s primary daily publication, claiming an audited circulation of 26,262. It serves a predominantly urban readership with its news coverage and reporting. The Post-Courier has, according to its editorial board, an influential voice within Papua New Guinea’s media landscape, playing a crucial role in informing public discourse and maintaining its position as “the country’s leading newspaper publication.”

HT Media Group

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HT Media is an Indian mass media company headquartered in Delhi, operating across print, electronic, and digital media platforms, and founded in 2002. Going back to 1924 with Mahatma Gandhi’s editorial vision, according to the company, HT Media has grown into a multimedia conglomerate under the leadership of chairperson Shobhana Bhartia, a member of India’s influential Birla family. Its flagship publication, the Hindustan Times, ranks as India’s second-largest English newspaper, alongside business daily Mint, Hindi newspaper Hindustan, and magazines Kadambini and Nandan. The group operates 19 printing facilities nationwide, while its digital properties include Hindustantimes.com, Livemint.com, and recruitment platform Shine.com, plus radio stations Fever FM and Radio Nasha.

Palestine Public Broadcasting Commission

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The Palestine Public Broadcasting Commission (PBC), formerly known as Palestine’s Broadcasting Authority, serves as the state media organization under the control of the Palestinian Authority. Founded in 1994, the PBC runs Palestine TV as a satellite broadcasting service and the Voice of Palestine as its radio network, although other media outlets also operate within Palestinian territories. Critics have alleged that the organization functions primarily as a governmental mouthpiece, and Israeli officials have claimed its content promotes violent actions. In 2011, the PBC signed a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, to include DW programs such as “In Good Shape” and “Kick off!” in its television lineup and broadcast DW radio programming on science and technology topics. In 2013, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union conducted a technical advisory mission to assist PBC in improving its radio and television transmission services across its Voice of Palestine stations.

Acacia Communications Co Ltd

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Based in Osaka,  Acacia Communications Co., Ltd (阿卡西亞通訊有限公司), or Akashia Komyunikēshonzu, is a Japanese media company founded on May 29, 2002, by Michiko Kurose (黑瀨道子), who serves as its representative director and publisher. The company specializes in publishing foreign-language media and providing translation services. The company is best known for publishing the Kansai Chinese Times (關西華文時報), a Chinese-language newspaper launched in August 2002 that serves the Chinese community in Japan’s southern prefectures.

Telefe

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Telefe is a Buenos Aires-based broadcast network founded in 1961 that is owned by the American media conglomerate Paramount Global. The channel produces Spanish-language programming, including telenovelas, news, and entertainment shows. Telefe also operates Telefe Internacional, a pay TV channel distributed to more than eight million subscribers in more than 20 countries. The network also offers streaming content through its digital platform, Mi Telefe.