Who gets to tell the world’s news?

In the early 1980s, Indian journalist Daya Thussu worked at India's Press Trust of India alongside the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool, an effort by Asian, African and Latin American countries to exchange news directly without reliance on Western agencies like Reuters. The initiative emerged from the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War as newly independent nations questioned why international news remained dominated by Western agencies—a pattern rooted in 19th-century European agencies like Reuters, which leveraged imperial infrastructure to establish global reach. The article examines how the Global South challenged Western control of international news flows and raises questions about editorial power that persist today.