Central News Agency (Taiwan)

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Central News Agency

Central News Agency of Taiwan
中央通訊社
Central News Agency main entrance at Zhi Ching Building 1F
Abbreviation	CNA
Established	1 April 1924; 97 years ago (1924-04-01)[1]
Founder	Kuomintang
Founded at	Guangzhou, Guangdong[1]
Type	News agency (state-owned)[1]
Legal status	Non-profit organisation[1]
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Region served	Worldwide, 30 locations[1]
Products	News
Services	Journalism
Official languages	Mandarin, English, Japanese,[1] Spanish (closed 2021[2])
Owner	Government of the Republic of China
Parent organization	Executive Yuan
Employees	300
Website	CNA.com.tw FocusTaiwan.tw (English) フォーカス台湾 (Japanese)

The Central News Agency (CNA) is Taiwan's semi-official wire service.

In addition to its Chinese (Mandarin) edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and has overseas branches in some 30 countries. It works with a number of well-known news agencies around the world; such as the US-based Associated Press, Reuters of London, England, the German Deutsche Welle, and France-based Agence France-Presse.

History[]

The agency was founded 1 April 1924; 97 years ago (1924-04-01), by the Kuomintang (KMT). Its headquarters was originally located in Guangzhou in Guangdong, but had to be relocated to Taipei, Taiwan Province in 1949, following the collapse of the Republic of China (ROC) government in mainland China after the Chinese Civil War, due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s victory, while the CCP established its new official news agency, Xinhua News Agency.^[1]

Despite the corporatisation of the agency in 1973, it continued to receive heavy government subsidies, and remained the nation's official agency. At the time, journalists from CNA received preferential treatment on various occasions, mostly government-related press conferences.^{[citation needed]}

After democratization, on 1 July 1996, the agency took the form of a non-profit organisation under a bill passed by the Legislative Yuan.^[1] Today, the agency is still the official news agency of Taiwan, and receives part of its funding from the Executive Yuan. However, its media influence is said^{[by whom?]} to have diminished due to a rise in competition after the government decided to lift restrictions on mass media.^{[citation needed]}

A Spanish language edition, Enfoque en Taiwán, was closed 31 March 2021.^[2] In August 2021, CNA oversaw the launch of the Taiwan+ streaming platform.^[3]

See also[]

• Mass media in Taiwan

References[]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Central News Agency (Republic of China).

• CNA.com.tw — Central News Agency official website (Taiwanese)
• FocusTaiwan — Central News Agency - English news
• フォーカス台湾 — Central News Agency - Japanese news

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