Deutsche Presse Agentur
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| For Profit cooperative | |
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 18 August 1949 |
| Headquarters |
Mittelweg 38 20148 Hamburg, Germany |
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Area served
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worldwide |
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Key people
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| Products | Wire service |
| Revenue | 87,824,000 EUR (2010) |
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Number of employees
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792 (2010) |
| Website | www.dpa.com |
Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (DPA; German Press Agency) is a German news agency founded in 1949. Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is available in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.
The DPA is the largest press agency in Germany. Along with the main office in Hamburg, there is a central news office in Berlin. The DPA has offices in some 100 countries, including 12 regional German bureaus along with 50 additional offices in Germany.
The DPA began in 1949, succeeding the Deutsche Nachrichtenagentur and the Süddeutsche News Agency (Südena). It was founded as a co-operative in Goslar on 18 August 1949, but became a limited liability company in 1951. Fritz Singer was the first editor-in-chief and managing director. He served as managing director until 1955 and as managing editor until 1959. The first transmission was at 6 a.m. on 1 September 1949.
In 1986, the DPA Global Media Services (GMS). This bought in 1988 their competitors Cartography Service GmbH.
In 2010, the headquarters of the DPA editors at the Markgrafenstraße moved into the historical newspaper district of Berlin, location of the former newsroom for Hamburg (word, internet, graphics), Frankfurt (pictures), and Berlin (words, pictures, audio, and video). The corporate headquarters of DPA remain in Hamburg, located in a Gründerzeit villa on Rotherbaum's Mittelweg, along with head management, sales, and business department, the subsidiary dpa-media technology GmbH.
The objective of the DPA is the collection, processing, and circulation of news, archives, and photo material from all subjects. The main statute of the DPA is "impartiality from influence and interference from the parties, world organizations, business and finance groups and governments".
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