Agenția de Presă RADOR is the largest press monitoring center in

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, established in 1990. RADOR editors monitor news published in Romanian language and in other 15 foreign languages: from audiovisual media – 57 radio and TV stations, from the written media – 150 newspapers and news agencies on all continents. RADOR publishes news, interviews, analyses and comments grouped in specialised feeds on

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

, as well as specialised bulletins: "România văzută din străinătate" (Romania Seen From Abroad), "Români de pretutindeni" (Romanians From Everywhere), "Revista presei internaționale" (International Press Summary), "Economia mondială" (World Economy), "Economia românească" (Romanian Economy), "Cei 27 pentru Europa" (27 for Europe), "Balcanii și Marea Neagră" (The

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and The

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), "Universul Științei" (The Universe of Science). RADOR also maintains a website.

History

Agenția de presă RADOR was founded on June 16, 1921, replacing the first national news agency, disbanded in 1916 when Romania entered

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. RADOR was the only Romanian large national news agency in the

interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days), the end of the World War I, First World War to the beginning of the World War II, Second World War. The in ...

. During that time, the "RADOR" name was derived from "Radio Orient"; nowadays, "RADOR" means "Radio Observator". Apart from its press monitoring service, RADOR also encompasses the "

Dimitrie Gusti Dimitrie Gusti (; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of ...

" Documentation Center, that creates daily, weekly, and quarterly calendars of events, and the RADOR Library, an important documentation source for all Radio Romania departments. The library has about 55,000 volumes, including rare books and princeps editions.

References

External links

RADOR's official site
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