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Professionalism, integrity, quality - AGERPRES
The news agency that provides unbiased, balanced and prompt information.

The AGERPRES National News Agency is the most important source for news and media pictures about Romania and the most trustworthy source of information about Romania on which the national and international print media rely.

The AGERPRES National News Agency is the official "voice" of Romania, running as a public institution of national interest. Its mission is to gather, edit and broadcast in words and pictures information about the latest news in domestic as well as foreign politics, economics, culture and sciences and sports.

Under its statutes, AGERPRES has a main obligation to function outside all ideological, political, religious or economic influences or considerations that might affect the accuracy and objectivity of the information provided. By the content of its services, the agency must also make sure pluralism, free communication of information and unbiased information of the public opinion is firmly secured, and it also has to refrain from broadcasting documents that might harm national security or personal image and dignity.

The annual news flow of the agency comprises, on the average, approximately:
-75,000 domestic news stories
-60,000 foreign news stories and 3,500 commentaries on world events
-24,000 news stories in English
-7,000 information documents
-24,000 media pictures covering domestic news and over 350,000 such pictures covering world news

The AGERPRES National News Agency has press offices in all the 41 county seats of Romania and special correspondents attending the most important events in Romania and abroad. The highly-talented 250 brave news staff and photo journalists employed by AGERPRES provide real-time connection to the events occurring in Romania and around the world.

The domestic and foreign news broadcast, as well as the publications and photographs by the AGERPRES National News Agency are carried over by numerous newspapers, radio stations, television channels and websites. Among the mass media using news stories and pictures provided by AGERPRES are national dailies Romania libera, Adevarul, Gandul, National, Evenimentul zilei, Jurnalul National, Libertatea, Azi, Curierul National, Gazeta Sporturilor, Curentul and Ziarul Financiar; Radio Romania, the Romanian Public Television Broadcasting Corporation, Antena 1, Realitatea TV, TVRM, Radio Trinitas, Radio 21, as well as numerous newspapers with a local and countywide readership and local radio stations and TV channels. AGERPRES supplies with domestic news the most read press review portal - Hotnews.ro.

The AGERPRES products and services are also in high demand with public bodies, political institutions and organisations, business, social and cultural organisations and organisations with other profiles. Among the main beneficiaries are the Presidential Administration, the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, the Romanian Government, ministries and departments under their authority, the Supreme Court of Justice, political parties and formations, higher education bodies, libraries and publishing houses, banking companies and chambers of commerce, local public administration bodies - including prefectures, county councils and city halls - as well as commercial companies. Also using the AGERPRES services are foreign media offices and diplomatic offices in Bucharest, as well as associations and organisations of Romanian communities outside Romania.

AGERPRES is a member of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA), the Alliance of Balkan News Agencies - Southeast Europe (ABNA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).

The AGERPRES National News Agency has concluded co-operation agreements and is exchanging information and pictures with over 45 news agencies from around the world, including AFP (France), ANADOLU (Turkey), ANA-MPA (Greece), ANP (the Netherlands), ANSA (Italy), ANTARA (Indonesia), AP (the US), APA (Austria), ATA (Albania), BELGA (Belgium), RADIOBRASIL (Brazil), BTA (Bulgaria), CTK (the Czech Republic), UKRINFORM (Ukraine), DPA (Germany), EFE (Spain), HINA (Croatia), KUNA (Kuwait), KYODO (Japan), MENA (Egypt), MAP (Morocco), MOLDPRES (Moldova), MTI (Hungary), PAP (Poland), PETRA (Jordan), SANA (Syria), STA (Slovenia), TANJUG (Serbia) TAP (Tunisia), ITAR-TASS (Russia), TASR (Slovakia), YONHAP (South Korea), XINHUA (China).

AGERPRES has made a name for itself for special care to service quality and concern with staying outside all ideological, political, religious or economic influences and considerations.
Making sure that pluralism, the free circulation of information and unbiased as well as prompt information of the public are the main guidelines in the activity of the agency.

AGERPRES is a permanent source of information and one of Romania's most important windows to the world.

AGERPRES stands for
Professionalism and integrity
Quality and high performance
Dynamism and seriousness



AGERPRES
People for news, news for the people


SHORT HISTORY
 
From the first wire news to the multimedia era
 
The AGERPRES National News Agency is the most prestigious news agency in Romania. Its history starts in 1889. Along the years, it was called the Romanian Telegraph Agency, the Orient-Radio Romanian Telegraph Agency, RADOR in short, the AGERPRES National News Agency, the ROMPRES National News Agency, and from 2008 bearing again the name AGERPRES National News Agency.
 
The first national and autonomous Romanian news agency established in early 1889 operated under the authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was concerned with "broadcasting abroad news from Romania" as well as with "receiving and broadcast from abroad an accurate and rapid service of all the news stories of general interest or special interest to Romania."
 

LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AGENCY
 
January 24/February 5, 1889
 
Romania's Foreign Minister P.P. Carp asks the General Management of Post and Telegraph Department to offer the emerging Romanian Telegraph Agency "a big room in the buildings they house."
 
March 15/27, 1889
P.P. Carp signs the birth document of the first news agency of the Romanian State: Romania's Telegraph Agency. The agency was to broadcast abroad news from Romania through the wire system, on a daily basis, and to provide for Romania  "an accurate and rapid service of all the news stories of general interest or special interest to the country."
 
March 30/April 11, 1889
Romania's Telegraph Agency dispatches its first wire news.
 
June 16, 1921
Orient-Radio (RADOR) anonymous wire news company is established in Bucharest.
 
May 20, 1949
The AGERPRES Romanian News Agency is creating by restructuring RADOR.
 
January 8, 1990
A decree is issued regarding the establishment of the ROMPRES National News Agency by the restructuring of AGERPRES.

January 2003
The Law regarding the organisation and functioning of the ROMPRES National News Agency, under which the agency is set to operate under the authority of Parliament, is issued and published.

July 2008
A new law is published modifying the agency's name to AGERPRES National News Agency.



HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAST DECADE


1999
The Web site of ROMPRES is officially launched in May

"Trei zile dintr-un veac. 7-9 mai 1999," (Three Days of a Century. May 7-9, 1999) depicting in words and pictures the visit to Romania of Pope John Paul II at the invitation of Patriarch Teoctist of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church is released at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest.

2003
The Law regarding the organisation and functioning of the ROMPRES National News Agency, under which the agency is set to operate under the authority of Parliament, is issued and published.
The book "România oi Consiliul Europei" (Romania and the Council of Europe, 1993-2003) is released to celebrate 10 years of Romania's membership of the Council of Europe.

2004
The book "România-NATO 1990-2004" (Romania-NATO 1990-2004) is released to celebrate Romania becoming a full NATO member.
"Ctitorii sub semnul crucii - atefan cel Mare oi Sfânt (Foundations under the Sign of the Holy Cross, St. Stephan the Great) bilingual Romanian-English photo album is released to mark the quintennial of St. Stephan the Great
"UNIUNEA EUROPEANA PE INTELESUL TUTUROR" (European Union for Everybody), the first CD in a series of four educational CDs in Romanian called "ABC-ul Uniunii Europene" (An ABC of the European Union) is released. Next in the series will be how to travel to the EU, how to study in the EU and how to work in the EU.
"UNIUNEA EUROPEANA PE INTELESUL TUTUROR" is awarded the 2004 SIMFEST multimedia festival award for the best multimedia creation.
Photo-document exhibition of the 1989 Romanian Revolution is mounted at the Romanian Information Centre in Brussels.
Photo-document trilingual Romanian-English-French album on the 1989 Romanian Revolution is released.

2005
The new Rompres photo Web site (www.foto.rompres.ro) is launched.
The IT platform for browsing the document base is launched.
The "CUM SA CALATORIM IN UNIUNEA EUROPEANA"(How to Travel to the European Union), the second CD-ROM in the ABC of the European Union series is officially released at the 2005 edition of the Romanian National Press Show.

2006
The ROMPRES DESKTOP IT application is released for news reception by subscribers.
REVISTA PRESEI (PRESS REVIEW) service is launched.
ROMPRES MONITORIZARE, a media monitoring service, is launched.
INFOGRAFICE, a graphed news service, is launched.
VIATA PARLAMENTARA, an on-line Romanian news service covering Parliament, is launched.
The photo exhibitions BUCHAREST - THE LITTLE PARIS, ROMANIA AT A GLANCE, ROMANIA HERE IN EUROPE and SIBIU, A EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE travel to Bratislava, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw, Seoul, Nicosia, Brussels, Antwerp and Strasbourg

ROMPRES becomes the exclusive provider in Romania of the XINHUA Photo service.
ROMPRES is congratulated for its performance as a media partner of the Romanian Foreign Ministry in the 11th SUMMIT OF THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD - it provided a bilingual Romanian-French daily news bulletin and pictures taken by the news editors and photojournalists of Rompres.
Ora Europei (EUROPE'S HOUR) news service reopens with real-time news covering the activity of Romanian MEPs in Brussels and Strasbourg, as well as the main European news of significance to Romania.

2007
Photo exhibition mounted in Seoul.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANIA photo exhibition opens in the South Hall of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
CEAUSESCU'S ERA BETWEEN FACTS AND PROPAGANDA, a file photo exhibition opens at the National History Museum of Romania.
BUCHAREST - THE LITTLE PARIS file photo exhibition opens at the ROMEXPO Exhibition Halls for the International Visual Arts Fair, and also at the Romanian Embassy in Nicosia.
BRANCUSI IN HIS HOME COUNTRY photo exhibition opens at the Cotroceni National Museum.
NEWS CRAWLER service is launched.
FOTO WATERMARK service is launched

2008
BANCI-PIEȚE-CAPITAL (BANKS-MARKETS-CAPITAL), NEWS FOR CRAWLWER, PHOTO NEWS SERVICE services are launched.
Special English news services Romanian Economic Daily News, The Daily Top News, AGERPRES News Summary and the Romanian Press review services are launched.
Special news web pages for the BUCHAREST NATO SUMMIT MEETING, LOCAL ELECTIONS 2008, EURO 2008 - EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES;
July 21 - Law 19/2003 concerning the organisation and functioning of the ROMPRES National News Agency is amended to provide for a switch back to the name AGERPRES (Law 155/July 18, 2008 amending Law 19/2003);
July 29 - The AGERPRES National News Agency wins three-year ISO certificates for its Quality, Environment, and Occupational Health and Safety management systems, becoming the first media organisation in Romania to hold SR EN ISO 9001:2001; SR EN ISO 14001:2001 and OHSAS 18001:2004 quality standard certificates.

2009
On March 27, 2009 we celebrate 120 years since the foundation of the first news agency of the Romanian state - 'ROMANIAN AGENCY' - AGERPRES - predecessor of today agency.

AGERPRES Reportaj, editorial products covering issues of wide interest to the Romanian society.

RealTimeMonitoring (ARTM) service, real-time monitoring of over 800 websites and online publications. The service can be configured directly by the client, on subscription, and offers keyword monitoring reports submitted on time intervals and SMS alerts.

Press releases - a new news agency service, disseminated and accessed for free, available around the clock, includes press releases and official announcements from central and local state authorities, political parties, trade unions, employers and public institutions, culture institutions and NGOs. It complements the services offered by the AGERPRES agency and it is a complementary product of the OTS (Original Text Service), where private companies and businesses can make their offerings, actions and views known for a fee, through press releases and notices.
Documentary package 'Retrospectiva anului 2009' (2009 in Retrospect), a 180-page chronology of major political, economic, social, cultural and sporting events from Romania and abroad. Retrospectiva is available in an electronic format in two sections - Domestic (90 pages) and Foreign (90 pages). Reviews of previous years are also available.

Launch in Brussels of the trilingual photo-document album, to commemorate 20 years since the revolution of December 1989 entitled "Romania 20'. This event is followed by a series of exhibitions of photography with the same theme in the country and abroad.