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In the month of August, Pedro Gómez Aparicio replaces Vicente Gállego as Managing Director of the agency. |
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The Comtelsa Economic service is created in a 50% collaboration with the Reuters agency. |
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EFE installs its first telephotography receptor device. |
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In February, the journalist, diplomat and writer Manuel Aznar Zubigaray takes over the position of Managing Director. |
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In March, Manuel Aznar leaves his position as head of EFE. The agency is managed jointly by the president Jesús Pabón and the company’s top executives. |
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In January, the journalist and foreign news correspondent Carlos Sentís is appointed Managing Director. |
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The first correspondents’ office in America is opened in Buenos Aires.. |
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January 2nd sees the launch of EFE’s foreign broadcasting service, to be distributed in America.
Bureaus are opened in all the countries of the American continent.
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The Catalonian businessman Miguel Matéu Pla replaces Carlos Sentís as President of EFE. |
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Manuel Aznar is appointed President of the agency in September.
EFE purchases the agency Fiel.
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Alejandro Armesto is appointed Managing Director.
EFE launches limited broadcasting services in English and French.
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In November, EFE and distinguished private Central American media set up the Central American News Agency (ACAN), with headquarters in Panama. |
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José María Alfaro is appointed President of EFE in February, replacing Manuel Aznar who died a few months earlier.
In September, Luis María Ansón takes on the role of President, and shortly after, in October, he is designated General Director of the agency.
The first “Style Guide of the EFE Agency” to maintain homogeneous writing in the broadcasting services worldwide, is published under the leadership and guidance of the professor and member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language Fernando Lázaro Carrete
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The EFE Agency moves its headquarters from 5 Ayala Street in Madrid to 22 Espronceda Street.
All the broadcasting services will now use the name EFE as the commercial brand, which up until this point had been reserved for foreign news.
The brands CIFRA (national), CIFRA-GRÁFICA (pictures) and ALFIL (sports) disappear.
The EFE Journalism Awards are created.
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EFE becomes a full member of The Inter-American Press Society (SIP). |
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In collaboration with the Ibero American Institute of Cooperation, the Department of Urgent Spanish (DEU) was set up, with the participation of philologists, language specialists and distinguished language academics, to promote the correct use of Spanish in its broadcasting services. |
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In January, the journalist Ricardo Utrill is appointed President and General Director of EFE.
The EFE Journalism Awards are replaced by Premios Rey de España (King of Spain Awards), in collaboration with the Ibero American Institute of Cooperation. An agreement with the North American agency UPI is signed to promote the Radio department.
The services “Great Writers” (in Spanish “Grandes firmas”) and “End of the Century Chronicles” (in Spanish “Crónicas fin de siglo”) are created to distribute articles by distinguished intellectuals in Spain and in Latin America.
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EFE formally joins the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), the leading European photograph agency, and holds 20% of the company’s capital. |
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EFE changes its logo.
The journalist Alfonso Sobrado Palomares is appointed President and General Director.
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The service EFE Data, the first news data bank in Spanish, is launched.
The EFE Foundation is created (March) with the aim of promoting research, development and studies of the news and its technology, as well as granting scholarships to students of any of the areas of Media Studies.
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EFE starts distributing its broadcasting services directly to customers via communications satellites.
The EFE Agency celebrates its 50th anniversary with a mobile photo exhibition, Efemérides, using the archive funds.
APM awards EFE with the Rodríguez Santamaría prize for “its work and development over the fifty years since its creation”.
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EFEAGRO and EFECOM are created as subsidiaries of EFE.
First celebration of the Silver Ball award, which is offered to the best Ibero American soccer player.
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Official broadcasts of TELETEXT start. |
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EUROEFE is created to provide information about EU activities. |
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EFE is awarded the Prince of Asturias award for Communications and Humanities in recognition of its work, independence and neutrality. |
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Miguel Ángel Gozalo is appointed President and General Director of EFE. |
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FOTOTECA (digital photo library) is up and running.
The EFE Agency and UNICEF create the biannual Ibero American Communication Award for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.
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Marketing over the Internet and digitalizing of photo and news archives begin. The Intranet “Between us” (in Spanish “Entre nosotros”) is put into operation. |
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A service is launched for Brazil in Portuguese.
The agency no longer depends on state funds and joins the Society for Industrial Participations (SEPI).
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Creation in Miami of a publishing center that makes it easier to adapt news content for the American market. |
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The International Photographic Service (SGI) is set up in collaboration with EPA.
The Multimedia Coordination Unit is set up in Madrid.
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Álex Grijelmo is appointed President of the EFE Agency.
The Don Quijote Award for Journalism is created, and is awarded and included with the International Rey de España (King of Spain) Journalism Awards.
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The journalist Lola Álvarez is appointed Managing Director and she becomes the first woman to hold this post in the history of the agency.
FUNDÉU (Foundation for Urgent Spanish), the result of an agreement between the EFE Agency and BBVA (a Spanish banking group), is created to promote the correct use of the language in the Spanish media and in any Latin American media wishing to participate in the project. The foundation is to be presided over by Víctor García de la Concha, director of The Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy of Language).
For the first time, Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain chaired the awards ceremony of the 22nd International Rey de España (King of Spain) Journalism Awards and the 1st Don Quijote Award for Journalism in a public ceremony in Casa de América in Madrid.
This was a special occasion in the awards history as the previous years the awards had been presented in a private audience in Zarzuela Palace.
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Efe changes its logo.
The vote of the company journalists approves the first EFE Agency Declaration of Writing and Editing Principles.
A category for digital journalism is added to the categories of the International Rey de España (King of Spain) Journalism Awards.
A new service called the World Digital Agenda (La Agenda Digital Mundial) is introduced. It can be consulted from any computer connected to the Internet and it pools the countless forecasts and official announcements that reach the newspaper offices and EFE bureaus all over the world. This product offers all types of cultural, sports, economic, political and social events, etc., in the short-, medium- and long-term.
The Arabic language news service is launched with headquarters in Cairo, and has the objective of building bridges, uniting voices, exchanging knowledge and a maxim: “to inform in order to bring cultures closer; to bring cultures closer in order to unite people”. EFE collaborates with the DPA Arabic service to exchange news.
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TVEFE America (Spanish) and TVEFE Brasil (Portuguese), a strategic alliance between Television Española and EFE to create the first audiovisual international news service, is born. A few months later, the product is expanded with services such as TVEFE in Arabic and TVEFE International in English.
EFE CEO Alex Grijelmo is elected chairman of the World Council of News Agencies. The executive committee includes represetatives from the AP (United States), AFP (France), ANSA (Italy), AAP (Australia), the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA), the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).
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Wikilengua, a Web site that seeks to be a repository of knowledge on the Spanish language, is unveiled. It is an initiative of Fundeu (Fundacion del Español Urgente), supported by EFE and Spanish banking giant BBVA.
The 64th Inter American Press Association (IAPA) General Assembly, co-organized by EFE, is held in Madrid.
EFE and Dow Jones launch a new joint service to provide Spanish-language financial news, EFE Dow Jones, aimed mainly at financial professionals, investors, analysts, media outlets and financial institutions. It has a team of financial reporters based in Madrid.
EFE launches its TVEFE España and TVEFE Internacional services for Spain.
“La sonrisa urgente” (The urgent smile) is published, gathering funny stories written by journalist of the Agency, and it is also illustrated with anecdotal pictures from EFE archives.
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EFE celebrates its 70th anniversary as the world’s fourth-largest news agency and the largest in the Spanish-speaking world, with a network of 3,000 reporters who provide information daily to more than 2,000 customers in various formats, including text, photos, video, audio and multimedia products.
EFE opens its first permanent correspondent’s office in Tehran to meet the growing demand for information about Iran.
The EFE-Galicia Galician service is launched, joining EFE’s services in Spanish, Catalan, Arabic, English and Portuguese and demonstrating the Agency’s commitment to provide news from a multilingual perspective.
The correspondent network in Spain is adapted to comply with the new Self-employed Labour Law (LETA).
The Spanish National High Court passed sentence in favour of the new multimedia organisation in EFE.
Sports and Culture newsrooms start to work as an integrated multimedia newsrooms in the headquarters in Madrid. First step towards the reorganisation of the newsrooms into a central newsdesk system.
The Managing team of EFE draws up the business plan for 2010-2013.
The agreements regarding the moving of the headquarters to a new building in 2012 are signed with Infoinvest Estate Agents. The new building will be located in the neighbourhood of Nuevo Vallecas, Madrid.
The head office of EFE in Barcelona is moved to Roc Boronat street, sharing the building with Spanish National Radio ( Radio Nacional). This move is part of an agreement with RTVE (Spanish television) to share offices around Spain.
The Agencia EFE and Edicions 62 published “EFE 20 Anys de noticies en catalá”, due to the 20th anniversary since the news service in Catalonian (Servei en Catalá) started. The book gathers in over 100 pictures the main events occurred in Catalonia. Previously, EFE had a news service in Catalonian from 1978 to 1983.
A collaboration agreement with Catalonian news agency (Agencia Catalana de Noticias, ACN) was signed to use its videos for the American market.
There is a reorganization of the regional offices in Spain, opening new permanent offices in Cadiz, Gerona and Tarragona. This rearrangement will be complete during 2010 when more new offices will be opened.
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The integrated newsrooms began to operate in Barcelona and Seville.
The new building project is approved by the Official Professional Body of Architects.
Efeverde´s website, www.efeverde.com, is launched as “the voice for the environment of EFE”.
A local office is opened in Bangkok to increase our presence in Asia.
SEPI approved the strategic business plan proposed by the management.
EFE sets up the new permanent offices in Almería, A Coruña and Lleida
The High Court backs up the use of mini-cameras by journalists allowing multimedia coverage around the globe.
CNN in Spanish hires EFE´s multimedia services.
EFE´s employees agree on a salary reduction which will guarantee permanent jobs for the next two years.
The High Court backs up EFE´s reorganization into multmedia integrated newsrooms.
Cervantes Institute, EFE and Foundation for the Spanish Language launch the new website “Practice Spanish with EFE”.
EFE and Sol Meliá sign an agreement to show Canal EFE at their hotels.
Álex Grijelmo chairs the III News Agencies World Congress in Bariloche (Argentina), in which the market changes in the media were analysed.
EFE promotes an ant piracy agreement in the III News Agencies World Congress.
EFE and France Presse sign an agreement to protect intellectual property and to fight against illegal use of their news in any format.
The Audiovisual Department is created, bringing together Radio & TV Department and Products under demand management.
The construction of the new EFE headquarters was put out to tender.
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José Antonio Vera is appointed President to EFE news agency.
The new President names Alfredo Aycart as Editor-in-Chief and Ignacio Sanz as Managing Director to EFE.
EFE-encuentros (meetings, gatherings) is inaugurated. The goal of this initiative is to gather personalities of the political, cultural , social and entrepreneur world.
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