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Algeria Press Service (APS; french: Algérie Presse Service, links=, lit=, translit=, label=; ar, وكالة الأنباء الجزائرية, links=, lit=, translit=Wakālat al-’Anbā’ al-Jazā’iriyyah; ber, ⵜⴰⵡⴰⴽⵍⴰ ⵉⵙⴰⵍⴻⵏ ⵏ ⵍⴻⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ, links=, lit=, translit=, label=) is a news agency based in
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. Its first hand-typed news with the national flag's colours was then taken up by all the foreign media of the time.


History

Algeria Press Service was created on December 1, 1961 in
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, in the wake of the
Algerian War of Independence The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
to be the flagship of the Algerian Revolution and the nation's standard-bearer on the global media scene. As a strong supporter of the November 1954 Revolution, APS settled soon after the cease-fire at the historic
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, the centre of the resistance during the war. The agency was preparing for the post-war period, i.e. reconstruction of the country, and consolidation of national sovereignty. Following independence, APS headquarters temporarily settled in a maisonette at Krim Belkacem Boulevard in
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, improving its editorial office. They began establishing their network throughout the country and acquiring their first technical equipment. With it, the agency began operating as a
public service A public service is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community. Public services are available to people within a government jurisdiction as provided directly through public sector agencies ...
broadcasting network. In the meantime, it started training journalists, technicians and operators. On April 1, 1963, the agency, which moved to a building at
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Boulevard where it stayed for over thirty years, began telegraphic news broadcasting. It got connected with other world news agencies. It also extended its network of regional bureaus and invested in its representations abroad. Its expanding photography service at the time enabled APS to distribute images of
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's broad reconstruction process, using the Belino System. On November 19, 1985, APS became an ''Établissement public à caractère économique et à vocation socio-culturelle''. Transformed on April 20, 1991 into an ''
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'' (EPIC). In January 1993, the agency moved to its new headquarters in Kouba. It became involved in new technologies on January 1, 1994, when it launched its first computerised editorial office. On April 25, 1995, it started delivering its news automatically. On February 18, 1998, APS inaugurated its official website, having been hosted the previous year by the Research Center in Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST). On July 5, 1998, both of the agency's pages in
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and the agency's online product, APS Online, were launched. This marked the starting-point of a new stage that would position the agency among the world leaders of news and communication. In November of the same year, it launched its broadcast via satellite, which would help the agency diversify its service range. Starting January 1, 2009, APS covers all the Algerian territory.


Divisions


Regional directorates

At the regional level, the news is collected by a network of correspondents gathered around 4 regional directorates and covering all of the country:


See also

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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)


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