Broadcasting in the Soviet Union news and television news was provided almost entirely by the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, commonly known as TASS until 1991. Under the rule of Emperor Nikolai II, the first broadcasting system began in 1904, and evolved into TASS in 1925. TASS still exists today, transformed into the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS). It occupies a Joseph Stalin-era building in Moscow, characterised by a bas-relief sculpture above the main entrance. However, much like its counterparts in cinema and the press, it has suffered since the break-up of Soviet Union. ITAR now broadcasts domestic news, while TASS reports the
Ethiopian News Agency Ethiopian News Agency The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) is the official news agency of the Government of Ethiopia. It is the oldest news organization in Ethiopia. ENA's inception dates back to 1942 as “Agence Direcsione”, under what used to be known as the Ministry of Pen (Ye-Tsehefet Ministeir, in Amharic). It may well be argued that ENA is the first national wire service in Africa in light of the fact that no indigenous service of the kind was found in any other country in the continent due to colonialism, wherein social, political and economic institutions were established by, and made