What is distinction of IА from advertising agencies?
IА transfer MM the social, political, economic information, advertising messages - care
of advertising agencies.
What is news? What is information?.
The terms are close, but aren't equivalent. News is very wide concept, including the most
various messages. The information is more exact statement of concept, supposing purposeful
news. As we understand the information is the messages, having the social importance.
In the beginning of seventieth, there were five information agencies, which collected and
distributed the information worldwide. They are Аssociated Press, United Press
International (USA), Reiter (England), Franch press (France), and TASS (USSR).
It is necessary to consider Gavas as the oldest agency in the world, established in 1825
in Paris by Sharlem Gavasov. In 1849 the employee of this agency Volfram created agency
Volfram, and other employee -Iulis Reiter established agency Reiter in England in 1851.
For a Long time these three agencies were monopolist of an information service.
Russian telegraphic agency (GROWTH) had worked from the first days after October
revolution, The new rule about telegraphic agencies was authorised in 1935. GROWTH was
liquidated, and its functions were handed TASS. TASS was assigned a management and control
of activity of telegraphic agencies of allied republics.
TASS was the central body of USSR, its statements were considered as the official point of
view of government. The basic tasks of TASS were: collection of information from all
territory of USSR, collection of information from foreign countries; distribution of
information in all territory of USSR , photo-information, legislative acts and decisions
of a party and government; in the special messages of TASS USSR reflected official opinion
of governmental circles and had power to deny the message of a foreign press.
From allied republics, TASS received the information, from the correspondents of local
telegraphic, specially allocated for this purpose, agencies. The republican agency had in
territories and areas of the republic correspondent places or correspondents.
There were established correspondent branch even in Tselina in Kazakhstan . The republican
agencies received foreign information from TASS and collected, local, with all these
materials they supplied the republican, regional newspapers, magazines. The most important
and interesting news they transferred TASS. It enabled TASS widely inform press of USSR
about events in territory of allied republics every day. Since the first days of existence
of TASS - informant, observer, reviewer, party commentator have been aspiring not only to
inform, but also to explain the fact, phenomenon to broad masses in accessible language,
in the clear form. In 1961 Union of the journalists USSR, Union of the writers and other
public organisations have founded in Moscow public information agency of a press
"News" - APN . In the ustav of APN the tasks of agency were determined to
prepare materials, articles, publication, comment for the newspapers and magazines. If the
basic production of TASS was hot news, АPN, first of all tried not only inform about the
events but widely made comments on them.
With disintegration USSR, TASS was transformed in IА of Russia, by keeping its trademark
ITAR-TASS, and АPN has become RIAN, Russian IА of "News".
The increase of new kind of information connected with requirements of business, private
sector of economy, has become one of the reasons resulted to creation of the alternative
non-state ITAR-TASS, and RIAN.
When the majority of the inhabitants of USSR began to realise, that there existed not only
propagation, but also information created by group of journalists, in 1989
"Interfax" tried to reflect occurring events objectively and precisely. From the
very beginning employees of agency have decided to show the true life.
The practice of creation of large non-state agencies can be looked after on an example of
IА. It was organised as joint venture with attraction of the foreign capital
Rus-Fran-Ital company "Interkvando". It helped "Interfax" to get
faxes. Other partner was Moscow radio, which presented to the young agency a premise.
Though for many western journalists the economic information has been becoming the major
goods for a long time, then it hasn't been offered to the Russian economy yet.
"Interfax" has become the first, who has realised importance, perspective and,
at last profitability of the business information for MM. Today agency have warm relations
with private business, having more than two thousand subscribers in Russia (basically,
they are private firms and banks) and over thousand foreign.
Today group "Interfax" consists of about 1000 men, 20 companies. They prepare
more than 3000 daily news, about 70 various information productions on politics, major
branches of business, financial markets of 20 countries of Europe and Asia. Except for the
states located in territory of former USSR, in the sphere of information activity of the
international group enter Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia. The group
"Interfax" began its work in ChinaTwo years ago.
THE EDITIONS OF INTERFAX
INTERFAX - CENTRAL ASIA
The political editions (Russia and countries of CIS)
There are tapes in this block: interfax-news, express - release, Presidential bulletin,
Diplomatic panorama, International news, Tape of military news, economic news for MM; the
block covers the financial editions, Banks and finance, Интерфакс-petroleum, an
Agricultural review, Electronics and communication, Statistical review, Review of the
business legislation etc. there enters interfax-business.
As the legal organisation of Kazakhstan IА - "Интерфакс-Казахстан"
was registered in autumn of 1996. But the body of Russian agency "Interfax" has
worked from the moment of formation since 1989.
''Interfax Kazakhstan" has begun its activity as IA since the autumn of 1997 and
started edition of an own information tape.
Now non-staff net of agency covers practically all regions of Kazakhstan.
The agency has increased amount of information productions. Now agency offers the
subscribers political news about 400-500 per one month, news in Kazakh language 15-17 per
day, business news 300-500, and also weekly bulletin " BUSINESS review of Kazakhstan
". This weekly release contains thematic tapes, it is petroleum economic and
political materials on situations in Central Asia, Russia, CIS and Baltii.
The international news for agency give: interfax-Europe (Great Britain), interfax-Germany
(GERMANY), interfax-America (USA), interfax-Asia (HONGKONG), and also world agencies.
On channels of agency "Interfax" the information messages from Kazakhstan are
dispatched to the subscribers all over the world.
Among the clients of agency - conducting MM, the largest corporations, national companies,
bank and financial institutions, state organisations and structures, embassy and
representation, state and international organisations.
One of the oldest IА of the country is Каз ААG-КIА. It has celebrated
80-anniversary.in March, 2001 The agency has been created on the basis of Kazakh
telegraphic agency, which has been unique MM in the country for many tens years. RВ,
newspaper and the magazines of the Republic use the information of КаzТAG, and the
official chronicle has always been monopoly of IА. Today, the staff of former powerful
information empire consists of about forty workers. Daily they send information to the
subscribers. It is official news, economic, social and cultural, daily news is sent to the
subscribers through the network Internet. Recently information releases have replenished
with financial news.
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