Before PNA, there was the Philippine News Service
The Philippine News Agency newsroom in Quezon City (File photo) MANILA - The private news outfit Philippine News Service (PNS) was the country's first news agency, organized on Oct. 1, 1950, but it had to cease operations after martial law was declared. "The Handbook of Journalism" by former Manila Times executive editor Jose Luna Castro said PNS was organized as a news-gathering cooperative by the publishers of the major dailies The Manila Times-Mirror-Taliba, Manila Chronicle, Manila Bulletin, Philippines Herald, Evening News, Bagong Buhay, and Fookien Times. Its main function ...
Source: philippinetimes.com
