APS
APS, Algeria’s News Agency, was founded on December 1st, 1961 in the wake of the national liberation war to be its standard-bearer on the world media scene. Its first hand-typed news with the national flag’s colours was then taken up by all the foreign media of the time. As a strong supporter of the November 1954 Revolution, APS settled soon after the cease-fire at the Kasbah of Algiers, a historical place and the Mecca of the resistance during the war. The agency was getting itself actively prepared to the post war period, i.e. reconstruction of the country, consolidation of national sovereignty, not to mention its duty of solidarity with other third-world liberation movements.
On April 1st 1963, the agency, which moved to a building at Ernesto Che Guevara Boulevard where it stayed for over 30 years, got its telegraphic news broadcasting underway and connected to the main world agencies. It also extended its network of regional bureaux and invested in its representations abroad. Its expanding photography service at the time enabled APS to spread pictures of Algeria’s wide reconstruction process using the “Belino” system. At the agency’s central editorial office, the news is collected by 12 chief editorial staffs: the political, social, cultural, sports, regional, investigations and reporting, business, data banks, international, translation and Internet departments.
For more information, please visit http://www.aps.dz/an/