Repositories

News Agencies

News agencies emerged in the second half of the 19th century. They are journalistic enterprises that are responsible for collecting news that has just happened and communicating it to newspapers and journalists in editorial offices and press offices. The news produced by news agencies are called ''launches'' in the jargon.

In this section we have selected the most important news agencies from the project consortium countries.

Click on your flag to discover the most important news agencies in your country.


EU Agenda

Type:National Press Agency

Year:2010

Ubication:Brussels

Language:English

Description:

Aggregator of third party contents
 

https://euagenda.eu

Euronews

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1993

Ubication:Lyon, Brussels, Athens, Budapest

Language:English, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish

Description:

Television news network estabilished by the European Broadcasting Union  as they wanted to provide sources to the world from a european perspective after acknowledging , during the Persian Gulf War in 1992, that CNN had a preeminent role as world 24-hour programming source.
 

https://www.euronews.com

EURACTIV

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1999

Ubication:Brussels

Language:English, French, German

Description:

EURACTIV is an independent pan-European media network specialised in EU affairs, established in 1999. We spark and nourish policy debates among stakeholders, including government, business and civil society. We cover policy processes upstream of decisions, summarising the issues without taking sides.
 

https://www.euractiv.com

EU Reporter

Type:National Press Agency

Year:2002

Ubication:Brussels

Language:English

Description:

EU Reporter News Agency provides a range of services to broadcast and corporate clients from the EU institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg
 

https://www.eureporter.co

IPS - Inter Press Service

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1964

Ubication:Rome

Language:English

Description:

"It has ""general"" NGO consultative status with ECOSOC at the United Nations, and the OECD status of ""ODA eligible international organization"".
Its main focus area are marginalised and vulnerable groups of people, to report from the perspective of developing countries, reflecting the the views of civil society.  "
 

https://www.ipsnews.net

AGENCIA EFE

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1939

Ubication:SPAIN

Language:SPANISH

Description:

Agencia EFE is an international news agency based in Madrid (Spain) founded in Burgos on January 3, 1939. EFE is an information company that covers all areas of the news in the written press, radio, television and Internet. It distributes a volume of three million news items per year to more than two thousand media outlets through a network of more than three thousand journalists of 60 nationalities

https://efe.com

EUROPAPRESS

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1953

Ubication:SPAIN

Language:SPANISH

Description:

Europa Press is a private Spanish news agency. It was founded in 1953.
Consolidated as one of the largest agencies in the country, it broadcasts mainly in Spanish 24 hours a day.
In the mid-1990s, the agency undertook its territorial expansion, opening delegations in the 17 autonomous communities, each with its news service. In this way, news coverage was provided throughout Spain, with journalists in all provincial capitals and correspondents in the main cities of Spain.

https://www.europapress.es/

COLPISA

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1972

Ubication:SPAIN

Language:SPANISH

Description:

"Colpisa was founded in 1972 on the initiative of a group of regional newspapers, leaders in their respective areas of influence, which needed a Madrid-based editorial office to provide independent and objective information.
The editorial office currently provides news content to the print and Internet editions of sixteen regional newspapers, being the point of union of all of them. It also provides news content to various public and private institutions."
 

https://www.colpisa.com/

SERVIMEDIA

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1988

Ubication:SPAIN

Language:SPANISH

Description:

Servimedia is a news agency in Spain, created in 1988, specialized in providing information and social communication at the national level. It is part of Ilunion, a business division of the Spanish National Organization for the Blind (ONCE).

https://www.servimedia.es/

AGENCIA ATLAS

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1998

Ubication:SPAIN

Language:SPANISH

Description:

Atlas is an audiovisual news agency owned by Mediaset España and incorporated in 1998. 
In its first five years, it became the leading provider of television news for local media.
Currently, the agency, a subsidiary of Mediaset España, produces national and international news, events, politics, economics, and sports, among others. 

https://www.atlas-news.com/

ANSA - Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1945

Ubication:Rome

Language:Italian, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Arabic

Description:

Fifth national press agency in the world, ANSA is the first multimedia information agency in Italy with 22 offices in the country and  81 in  78 other countries.
The agency is a cooperative of 36 publishing partners from the main Italian newspapers.

https://www.ansa.it

Adnkronos

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1963

Ubication:Rome

Language:Italian, English, and Arabic

Description:

The agency has 6 offices in the main italian cities, and since 2003 it provides international news, with a specific focus on the arabic world, under the name of AKI - Adnkronos International

https://www.adnkronos.com

AGI - Agenzia Giornalistica Italiana

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1950

Ubication:Rome

Language:Italian, English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and French

Description:

Since 1956 it is controlled by ENI SpA - former national petrol public body, converted to joint stock company in 1992.

https://www.agi.it

Italpresse

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1988

Ubication:Palermo

Language:Italian

Description:

Since 2013 it owns "Malta News Agency", Malta's National Press Agency, which operates in English

http://www.italpress.com

LaPresse

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1994

Ubication:Milan

Language:Italian

Description:

Born as photo-reporting agency, it now has 10 offices in Italy and 15 around the world, and can count on an exclusive partnership with Associated Press

https://www.lapresse.it

AGERPRES

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1889

Ubication:Romania

Language:Romanian, Engligh, Magyar

Description:

"The National News Agency ""AGERPRES"" is the oldest Romanian news agency and the first autonomous agency in Romania. It was established in March 1889 as the Telegraph Agency of Romania or Romanian Agency with serving as a ""fast and accurate service of all general or special interest news"". The agency was suspended from the end of 1916 until the end of World War I. On June 16, 1921, it established the agency Orient-Radio, ""caring only for the general interest and that of its subscribers."" During time it had different names, but in July 2008 the National News Agency returns to the AGERPRES name.
The first website of the National Press Agency was launched in 1999."

https://www.agerpres.ro/

RADOR

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1990

Ubication:Romania

Language:Romanian

Description:

RADOR is the largest press monitoring center in Romania, established in 1990. RADOR editors monitor news published in Romanian language and in other 15 foreign languages: from audiovisual media – 57 radio and TV stations, from the written media – 150 newspapers and news agencies on all continents. RADOR publishes news, interviews, analyses and comments grouped in specialised feeds on politics, economy, science, as well as specialised bulletins.

https://www.rador.ro/

Suomen Tietotoimisto (Finnish News Agency) - STT

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1887

Ubication:Helsinki, Finland

Language:Finnish, Swedish

Description:

The only commercial news agency in Finland producing a real-time and comprehensive news service. It's an independent, national news provider for media as well as a provider of communication services for leading companies, organizations and government agencies. 

https://www.stt.fi/en

YLE NEWS

Type:National Press Agency

Year:1926

Ubication:Helsinki, Finland

Language:Finnish, English

Description:

"The most popular Finnish national broadcasting media news in Finland"
 

https://yle.fi/news

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