Tanjug
Tanjug ( acronym of Telegrafska agencija nove Jugoslavije ; German : "News Agency of the New Yugoslavia") has been the state press agency of the Republic of Serbia since 2006 . The photo archive of the news agency, which contains around 3.5 million photographs , is important.
It was founded in 1943 as the official news agency of socialist Yugoslavia . From 1992 to 2003 she was the state press agency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and from 2003 to 2006 the state press agency of the international community of Serbia and Montenegro .
history
Tanjug was founded on November 5, 1943. Her tasks initially included reporting on the liberation struggle in the militarily occupied Yugoslavia . Since the 1960s it has been based in the Tanjug building in Belgrade .
In its heyday, Tanjug had a worldwide network of 48 correspondents, was one of the 10 largest news agencies in the world and the leading news agency for the non-aligned countries . Among the outstanding achievements included claims to be the world's first-time coverage of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961 or taking of Saigon by North Vietnamese troops in 1975, beyond the initial reports about Bobby Fischer's world title in 1972 in chess or the military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende 1973. Further events of historical importance, about which Tanjug was the first to report, were the crackdown on the Prague Spring in 1968 by the Warsaw Pact military invasion of Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in December 1989.
During the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, Tanjug developed into a propaganda instrument for the Greater Serbian war policy.
In the course of privatization , Tanjug was to be transformed into a market economy- oriented company from 2007 onwards . At the end of 2006 the agency had a total of 313 employees, including 147 journalists , 27 translators and 4 press photographers .
At the beginning of November 2015, the deletion of the state company Tanjug was announced. The basis for this was the new Serbian media law, which stipulates the deletion, since no one wanted to buy the Tanjug until the end of October 2015. Around 180 employees should be affected. Ultimately, Tanjug was saved with an injection of state funds.
Web links
- Tanjug website (Serbian, English)
- History of Tanjug (Serbian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakov Sirotković, Ivo Cecić: Enciklopedija Jugoslavije . Ed .: Miroslav Krleža. tape 6 (Jap-Kat). Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, 1990, ISBN 86-7053-024-4 , p. 583 .
- ↑ a b About Tanjug ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ HAVANA 1961: Amigo de Cuba after Bay of Pigs ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BEIJING, 1975: Tanjug reported first - was was over in Vietnam ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Beijing, Apr 30 (Tanjug) - Saigon is liberated, Tanjug correspondent learns from the trustworthy source in Beijing. The town has been liberated at 9:20 am local time. Saigon regime army surrendered. (The end)
- ↑ REYKJAVIK, 1972: Bobby Fischer world champion - fastest news in 1972 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reykjavik, Sept 1 (Tanjug) - Bobby Fischer is a new world champion, after he defeated Boris Spassky with 12 1/2: 8 1/2. The match referee Lothar Schmid stated that Spassky informed him on the phone that he resigned the 21st game of the match. (The end)
- ↑ SANTIAGO, 1973: Coup d'état in Chile and murder of Allende ( Memento of the original on 29 October 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Today a coup d'état was staged in Chile against the legally elected president Salvador Allende
- ↑ a b Nobody wants to buy Tanjug . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 258 , November 6, 2015.
- ↑ Standard.at: Cash injection for discontinued Serbian news agency Tanjug - derstandard.at/2000026691272/Finanzspritze-fuer-eingestierter-serbische-Nachrichtenagentur-Tanjug. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
