Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Type	GmbH
Industry	News media
Founded	18 August 1949 (1949-08-18)
Headquarters	Mittelweg 38 20148 Hamburg , Germany
Area served	worldwide
Key people	Peter Kropsch, President & CEO Sven Gösmann, Editor-in-Chief
Products	Wire service
Revenue	€92,897,000 (2019)
Number of employees	673 (2019)
Website	www.dpa.com

Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa) is a German news agency founded in 1949.^[1] 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.^[1]

The dpa is the largest press agency in Germany^[2] with headquarters in Hamburg and the central editorial office in Berlin. It is represented abroad with around 100 locations and maintains 12 state services in Germany with the corresponding offices. The dpa has 673 employees, the turnover was 92.9 million euros in 2019.^[1]

History[]

The dpa was founded as a co-operative in Goslar on 18 August 1949 and became a limited liability company in 1951. Fritz Sänger was the first editor-in-chief. He served as managing director until 1955 and as managing editor until 1959. The first transmission occurred at 6 a.m. on 1 September 1949.^[3]

In 1986, the dpa founded Global Media Services (GMS), which bought its competitor Cartography Service GmbH in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, the editorial headquarters moved to the historical newspaper district of Berlin, location of the former newsroom for Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin. The corporate headquarters remain in Hamburg, along with subsidiaries news aktuell GmbH, dpa-media technology GmbH, and dpa-infocom GmbH.^{[citation needed]}

Services[]

German language services[]

dpa main wire and dpa regional services publish around 1,100 articles daily from all over the world in the politics, business, sports and panorama sections. An average of 950 photos are offered to customers daily via Bildfunk.^[1]

dpa customers are offered these services for a flat monthly fee (graded according to the size of the medium).

Foreign language services[]

dpa foreign language services are available in English, Spanish and Arabic. The English service is produced in Berlin and Sydney, the Spanish service in Madrid and Berlin, the Arabic service has its main editorial office in Cairo.

The dpa cooperates with other news agencies, including Associated Press (AP), , , and Schweizerische Depeschenagentur.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• List of news agencies

References[]

External links[]

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