Algeria Press Service (APS; , , ) is a news agency based in

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

. Its first hand-typed news with the national flag's colours was then taken up by all the foreign media of the time. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies.

History

Algeria Press Service was created on December 1, 1961 in

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, in the wake of the

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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

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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

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broadcasting network. In the meantime, it started training journalists, technicians and operators. On April 1, 1963, the agency, which moved to a building at Che Guevara 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

'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 '' Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial'' (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.

Visual identity (logo)

File:Algérie Presse Service - APS.png, Logo of the Algeria Press Service in 1961. File:Algerie Presse Service.svg, Current English logo of the Algeria Press Service (2023)

Divisions

Regional directorates

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

Notes

References

External links

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