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TASR Wins 2017 EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality

TASR Wins 2017 EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality

Bratislava, April 11 (TASR) – The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) has won the 2017 Prize for Excellence in News Agency Quality awarded by the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) for creating a social networking aggregator called Somecan, TASR learnt on Tuesday. This is TASR’s first award

Madaric: RTVS Caught in Crossfire; No Deal on RTVS Head Made Yet

Madaric: RTVS Caught in Crossfire; No Deal on RTVS Head Made Yet

Bratislava, April 11 (TASR) – Public-service Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) has been caught up in attacks coming from two sides, said Culture Minister Marek Madaric on Tuesday. In addition to efforts by co-governing Slovak National Party (SNS) chairman Andrej Danko to bring RTVS under the state’s authority, the organisation

OLaNO-NOVA Submits Proposal on RTVS Funding to Parliament

OLaNO-NOVA Submits Proposal on RTVS Funding to Parliament

Bratislava, April 10 (TASR) – When a new general director of public broadcaster Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) takes up the post in June, RTVS should have a definitive model of funding set for it, stated the Opposition OLaNO-NOVA party at a press conference in Bratislava on Monday. As a result,

TASR Withdrawing from Contract with Russian News Agency Sputnik

TASR Withdrawing from Contract with Russian News Agency Sputnik

Bratislava, March 30 (TASR) – The management of the News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) has in the past 24 hours reviewed the content of the contract between itself and Russian news agency Sputnik and stated that no information from Sputnik’s database has been used in TASR’s news

TASR Ended 2016 with Surplus of Over €136,000

TASR Ended 2016 with Surplus of Over €136,000

Bratislava, March 16 (TASR) – The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) ended 2016 with a surplus of €136,512, as its revenues of €5,278,253 topped the agency’s expenditures of €5,141,741, according to a report on TASR’s activities in the second half of 2016

Reznik: TASR Is Attentive towards Efforts of V4 Parliamentary Chairs

Reznik: TASR Is Attentive towards Efforts of V4 Parliamentary Chairs

Bratislava, December 4 (TASR) – The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) considers the effort of the parliamentary chairs of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries to intensify the mutual exchange of information vis-a-vis the European Union to be a positive thing, stated TASR general director Jaroslav Reznik on Sunday. Reznik

Sweden's Jonas Eriksson Becomes New EANA Chief

Sweden's Jonas Eriksson Becomes New EANA Chief

Bratislava, September 23 (TASR) – Executive director and editor-in-chief of Swedish press agency TT Jonas Eriksson has become the new President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) in line with a decision made by the EANA General Assembly in Bratislava on Friday. Eriksson will replace executive director of British