News eventually the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). The Chinese Communist Party created its news agency, the Red China News Agency, in 1931; its primary responsibilities were the "Red China" newspaper and the internal "Reference News". In 1937, the Party renamed the agency "Xinhua", New China. Xinhua became the official news agency of the People's Republic of China in 1949. These agencies touted their ability to distill events into "minute globules of news", 20–30 word summaries which conveyed the essence of new developments. Unlike newspapers, and contrary to the sentiments of some of their reporters, the agencies sought to
Jamahiriya News Agency Jamahiriya News Agency The libya News Agency, also known as wal, was the official state news agency of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. It continues to operate online on WordPress.com. It was founded in 1964 as the Libyan News Agency by a royal decree, amended in 1970 after the 1969 coup d'état and fall of the Kingdom of Libya. It was taken off the air during the Battle of Tripoli in August 2011, as rebel forces overran the capital. Under Muammar Gaddafi's government, the agency was the only authorised distributor of foreign news and most domestic news in the country. It