Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) ( ar, وكالة تونس إفريقيا للأنباء) is a Tunisian
press agency
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.
History and profile
The agency, based in Tunis, was founded on 1 January 1961.
With a corps of 300 agents, including photographers, researchers and 220 journalists, and a network of correspondents covering all regions of the country, the agency reports on national news in
Arabic
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,
French, and
English
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For international news, the agency uses AFP, ]Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
, and the Associated Press
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, as well as about forty national agencies. Globally, the agency produces an average of 250 dispatches each day. The agency also has a photography department, which produces around 20 images daily, and has an archive of more than 500,000 photos dating back to the 1930s.
General managers
Hédi Annabi
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was the general manager of agency between 1979 and 1981.La Presse de Tunisie
''La Presse'', founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia.
History
''La Presse de Tunisie'' was founded in 1934 by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born ...
'', before becoming editor-in-chief of '' Le Renouveau'' until he joined TAP. Taieb Yousfi became the head of the agency on 7 January 2012.
See also
* Federation of Arab News Agencies
The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA), a branch of the Arab League, is a membership organization for Arabic-language, national news agencies, currently of 18 or 19 members
and established in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Mission
FANA's missi ...
(FANA)
References
External links
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1961 establishments in Tunisia
Government agencies established in 1961
Arab news agencies
News agencies based in Tunisia
Government-owned companies of Tunisia