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| Company type | Sociedad Anónima |
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| Industry | News media |
| Predecessor |
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| Founded | 3 January 1939 |
| Founder | Ramón Serrano Súñer |
| Headquarters | Avenida de Burgos, 8-B, , Spain |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Wire service |
Number of employees | 1,110 (2019)[1] |
| Parent | SEPI |
| Website | www |
Agencia EFE, S.A. (Spanish: [ˈefe]) is a Spanish international news agency, the major Spanish-language multimedia news agency and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.[2] EFE was created in 1939 by Ramón Serrano Súñer,[3] then Francoist faction's Interior Minister.
Agencia EFE is a news agency that covers all areas of information in the news media of the press, radio, television and Internet. It distributes around three million news items per year, thanks to its 3,000 journalists from 60 nationalities, operating 24 hours per day from more than 180 cities in 120 countries and with four editorial desks in three continents: Madrid, Bogotá, Cairo (Arabic), and Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese).[4]
Employees in Spain are represented by several labor unions. EFE has about 40 employees in the United States who voted on 29 September 2005 to be represented by the News Media Guild. Workers ratified a first labor contract in December 2006, marking the first time the company had ever reached such an agreement outside Spain.
The agency organized the second News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) in 2007.[5]
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- ^ Olmos, Víctor (6 April 2014). "Cuando las noticias viajaban en bici". El Periódico. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ "Efe cumple 70 años difundiendo su visión española de la actualidad". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 2 January 2009. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ Hassan, Rashid (20 November 2013). "News agencies embrace information technology". Arab News. Riyadh. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.