EFE

Agencia EFE, S.A.
Company typeSociedad Anónima
IndustryNews media
Predecessor
  • Centro de Corresponsales (1865–1919)
  • Fabra (1919–1936)
Founded3 January 1939; 86 years ago (1939-01-03)
FounderRamón Serrano Súñer
HeadquartersAvenida de Burgos, 8-B, ,
Spain
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsWire service
Number of employees
1,110 (2019)[1]
ParentSEPI
Websitewww.efe.com

Agencia EFE, S.A. (Spanish: [ˈefe]) is a Spanish international news agency, the major Spanish-language multimedia news agency and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.[2] EFE was created in 1939 by Ramón Serrano Súñer,[3] then Francoist faction's Interior Minister.

Agencia EFE is a news agency that covers all areas of information in the news media of the press, radio, television and Internet. It distributes around three million news items per year, thanks to its 3,000 journalists from 60 nationalities, operating 24 hours per day from more than 180 cities in 120 countries and with four editorial desks in three continents: Madrid, Bogotá, Cairo (Arabic), and Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese).[4]

  1. ^ "SEPI – Informe Anual 2019" (PDF).
  2. ^ EFE. "The world from a Latin perspective". Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  3. ^ Olmos, Víctor (6 April 2014). "Cuando las noticias viajaban en bici". El Periódico. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Efe cumple 70 años difundiendo su visión española de la actualidad". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 2 January 2009. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019.

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