Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata
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| Not-for-profit cooperative | |
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 15 January 1945 |
| Founders | Edgardo Longoni |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
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Number of locations
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22 locations in Italy |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Products | Wire service, news websites |
| Website | ansa.it |
The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) is the leading wire service in Italy, and one of the leaders among world news agencies. ANSA is a not-for-profit cooperative, whose members and owners are 36 leading news organizations in Italy. Its mission is the distribution of fair and objective news reporting. The acronym literally means Associated Press National Agency.
In January 1945, three representatives of the major political forces of the Italian Resistance, Giuseppe Liverani, managing director of "Il Popolo" (The People), Primo Parrini, managing director of Avanti!, and Amerigo Terenzi, CEO of L'Unità, advanced the possibility to organize a news agency as a cooperative of newspapers, not controlled by the government nor private groups, replacing the work of the Agenzia Stefani, moved to Milan to meet the information needs of the Italian Social Republic. Their proposal had the approval from the Allied military authorities who, a few months later, favored the success of the new agency by closing the Italian Notizie Nazioni Unite (NNU, United Nations News), an agency created by Psychological Warfare Division. Some antifascist newspaper immediately adhered, and makeshift headquarters were set up in Rome, Moretto street 15, unofficially entrusting the direction of former NNU director Renato Mieli. The 15 January 1945 came ANSA first publication, in the form of a news release and distributed in the city of Rome. After a few weeks ANSA moved to the place formerly occupied by Agenzia Stefani, in Propaganda street.
The ANSA is a cooperative of 36 members of the main Italian newspapers publishers and is designed to collect and transmit information on the main events Italian and world. To this end, the ANSA has 22 offices in Italy and 81 offices in 78 other countries. It headquartered in Rome, in Via della Dataria, 94.
The agencies ANSA transmit more than 3,500 news and more than 1,500 photos a day that are transmitted to the Italian media, national institutions, local and international trade associations, political parties and trade unions. The ANSA news broadcasts national, local and sector-specific.
In addition to the news in Italian ANSA transmits its news in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic.
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