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
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