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
Fars News Agency Rushdie in regards to The Satanic Verses controversy. Fars promised $30,000 for the killing of Rushdie. Fars News Agency The Fars News Agency is a news agency in Iran. While it describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency", it is widely described by news media to be a "semi-official" news agency of the Government of Iran. All its content is Creative Commons licensed. Fars News Agency was founded in 2003. In addition to Persian reporting, the agency also provides news in English, Turkish and Arabic. In June 2012, Fars released an interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in which