Austrian Press Agency keen on closer ties with AzerTAc
Baku, July 24 (AZERTAC). Vienna-based Austrian Press Agency (APA) is one of the biggest and leading national news agencies in the world.
APA looks back on a history since 1849 and, together with AFP (Agence Havas), AP and dpa (Wolff'sches Telegraphisches Bureau), is among the four oldest news agencies in the world. Joseph Tuvora founded the "Österreichische Correspondenz" in Vienna in 1849, APA's oldest forerunner. In 1835 Charles-Louis Havas founded the worldwide first news agency in Paris: the "Agence Havas". Demand for news increased rapidly all around the world and around the year 1850, additional offices were founded, which specialized in dealing with the product news: the Associated Press in New York (1848), the "Wolff'sches Telegraphische Bureau" in Berlin (1849) and "Mr. Reuter's Cabled Messages" in London (1851). In 1859, the council of ministers decided that the telegraphic news business must be more stringently controlled and therefore decided to nationalise the "Österreichische Correspondenz". In 1922 the agency was renamed to "Amtliche Nachrichtenstelle" (ANA) and in 1938 was succeeded by the National Socialistic "Deutsche Nachrichten Büro" (DNB).
Peter Kropsch is CEO of Austrian Press Agency. He maintains friendly ties with Director General of the AZERTAC Aslan Aslanov and meets him on the sidelines of international events
A report on the activity of the organization sent to AZERTAC tells about the cooperation between the APA and AZERTAC. The report says the financial crisis severely damaged Europe but APA`s annual growth made up 1.6 percent.
Mr. Kropsch found the need to inject money into management, innovations and technologies, infrastructure projects business models.
APA is Austria`s leader for the application of information technologies.
The agency delivers photographs, infographics, video, information to its readers. It has multimedia services, social network presence and infographics.
APA`s operator DeFactor has rich database.
Mr. Kropsh says that last year`s tendencies will find their way to this year too. According to him, technological achievements, fragmentation of markets, IT contribute to national agencies and make them carry out structural changes.
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