TASS
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| legal form | FGUP |
| founding | September 1, 1904 |
| Seat | Moscow |
| Branch | News agency |
| Website | tass.ru |
TASS ( Russian ТАСС ) is one of the largest Russian news agencies , headquartered in Moscow . It has existed under changing names since 1904. From 1992 to 2014 the agency published under the name ITAR-TASS as the “central state news agency”. Text and image services are served in many languages via a network of domestic and foreign offices. The agency is organized in the form of an FGUP , i. H. it is a state company .
history
Saint Petersburg Telegraph Agency (1904–1918)
TASS was originally the abbreviation for Russian Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза (Telegrafnoje agentstwo Sowjetskogo Sojusa, German: ' Telegrafenagentur der Sovietunion'). However, the history of the agency began in Tsarist Russia , as on September 1, 1904 in St. Petersburg , the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA; Russian Санкт-Петербургское телеграфное агентство, СПТА ) recorded as the first official news agency Russia to operate. A good ten years later, on August 18, 1914, Saint Petersburg was renamed Petrograd . As a result, the name of the agency changed to the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA, Russian Петроградское телеграфное агентство, ПТА ) the next day .
ROSTA (1918-1925)
Again four years later, the Bureau decided the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Central ( Russian Всероссийский центральный исполнительный комитет, ВЦИК) , the then supreme legislative, arranging and controlling authority of Russia, the PTA with the office for newspaper industry in VTsIK merge under the name of Russian Telegraph Agency at the All-Russian Central Executive Committee , ROSTA for short ( Russian Российское Телеграфное агентство при Всероссийском Центральном Исполнительном Российское Телеграфное агентство при Всероссийском Центральном Исполнительном .
TASS (1925-1992)
The agency received its best-known name, which is still in use today, on July 10, 1925: on the instructions of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union , TASS for short, was established as the central information organ of the country of ROSTA News agency took over and ran it independently.
During the time of the Second World War , TASS set up its own editorial team for war reporting. Many TASS correspondents were working directly on the front lines at the time.
In the USSR, TASS was the only news agency with international news exchange, that is, it was the only agency that transmitted news from the Soviet Union to foreign news agencies or disseminated reports received from abroad in the Soviet Union. In addition, the news agencies of the individual Soviet republics were a structural component of TASS, such as RATAU in Ukraine, BELTA in Belarus or KAZTAG in Kazakhstan. Around 4,000 newspapers, television and radio stations in the USSR and over 1,000 media abroad received reports and photos from TASS at peak times. At that time, the news agency maintained one of the largest correspondent networks in the world with 682 offices in the Soviet Union, 94 offices abroad and almost 2,000 text and photo reporters.
ITAR-TASS (1992-2014)
After the end of the Soviet Union, the agency was renamed the Information and Telegraph Agency of Russia in 1992 ( Russian Информационное телеграфное агентство России , Informatsionnoje telegrafnoje agentstvo Rossii ). Because of its worldwide recognition as a news brand, the previous designation "TASS" was added, so that news was now distributed under the ITAR-TASS brand . Later, the abbreviation TASS was reinterpreted in T elegrafnoje a gentstwo s wjasi i s oobschtschenija (German: 'Telegraph Agency for Communication and Reports').
TASS (since 2014)
On September 1, 2014 the 110th anniversary of its existence, the agency finally returned to her former brand back and only occurs since then as TASS, the official name of the Agency continue russian Федеральное государственное унитарное предприятие "Информационное телеграфное агентство России (ИТАР -ТАСС) » (Federalnoje gosudarstvennoje unitarnoe predprijatije« Informatsionnoje telegrafnoje agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS) »).
TASS is headquartered in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard.
Cooperation with the KCNA
On October 8, 2019, TASS and the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the central propaganda organ in North Korea , signed a cooperation agreement to jointly combat “ fake news ”. The agreement also provides that the two state agencies exchange material and “support journalists”. An older agreement between the two state media has existed since 2005. What TASS and KCNA understand by “fake news” was not defined in the agreement. The propaganda coverage of the North Korean agency suggests that almost every message that deviates from the point of view of the North Korean regime is interpreted as "fake news". The Director-General of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Press and Information Department praised the Russian media for its “fair and objective” description of the “principled positions” of the North Korean leadership.
See also
Web links
- Web site TASS (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ITAR-TASS today. ITAR-TASS, accessed on April 20, 2014 (English, self-description of the news agency).
- ↑ a b North Korea's KCNA, Russian TASS news agency hope to fight 'fake news' . In: BBC Monitoring , October 9, 2019.
- ↑ Russian, North Korean State Media Team Up to Fight 'Fake News' . In: The Moscow Times , October 9, 2019.
- ↑ Russian and North Korean state media join forces to fight 'fake news' . In: The Telegraph , October 9, 2019.