Agerpres is the oldest
Romanian news agency and the first
autonomous agency in
Romania. It was established in March 1889 at the initiative of Foreign Minister
Petre P. Carp, 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
Telegraph Agency of Romania was suspended from the end of 1916 until the end of
World War I. On 16 June 1921, it established the agency
Orient-Radio, "caring only for the general interest and that of its subscribers". In 1926, it takes place a new reorganization of the agency, the
Romanian Parliament decided shifting to name
RADOR - Information Telegraph Agency. Later, in 1949, the first news agency in Romania becomes
AGERPRES. In 1990, is established
ROMPRES and six years later
ROMPRES becomes a member of the
European Alliance of News Agencies (
EANA). The first website of the National Press Agency it is launched in 1999. The National News Agency returns to the AGERPRES name in July 2008, following the amendment of Law no. 19/2003 on the organization and functioning of the National Press
ROMPRES.
Agerpres has the largest archive of photographs from
Romania, as well as an internal and external photo service which provides in real-time, over 1,000 photos. On 17 September 2013,
Agerpres went through a rebranding process that consisted of focusing on the online environment, enriching the multimedia area with an interactive video platform and introducing the concept of a complete journalist. ==See also==