AGERPRES

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The Agenția Națională de Presă for short AGERPRES ( Roman . Pronunciation ˈad͡ʒerpres ) is a Romanian news agency . It was founded in 1889, making it the country's oldest news agency and the largest Romanian photo archive. She is a member of EANA and has correspondents across the country and in major European cities.

history

Law on the change of name from Rompres to Agerpres 2008

The agency was founded on March 27, 1889 under the name of Agenția Telegrafică a României on the initiative of the Foreign Minister Petru Carp . It worked successfully until it had to stop its service at the end of 1916 when the Germans took Bucharest in World War I and the Palatul Poștelor had to be evacuated. It then resumed its work and in 1921 was the basis of Orient Radio RADOR , a news agency in the modern sense. After a parliamentary decision , it was called RADOR - Agenție de informații telegrafice from 1926 .

Due to a communist decree, the agency became Agerpres in 1949 . Shortly after the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 , it was converted into the Agenția Națională de Presă ROMPRES in January 1990 , which, however, remained under state authority. After a change in the law in 2003, Rompres became an autonomous public institution, under the control of Parliament. In 2008 the name was changed back to Agerpres .

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