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− | Founded in [[established::1991]], the [[Slovene Press Agency (STA)]] is national press agency which covers events at home and worldwide using its own, as well as foreign sources. STA is a limited liability company, majority owned ( | + | Founded in [[established::1991]], the [[Slovene Press Agency (STA)]] is national press agency which covers events at home and worldwide using its own, as well as foreign sources. STA is a limited liability company, majority owned (100 per cent) by the state. It is governed by a special Act on the Slovenian Press Agency. It entered into force in July 2011 and stipulates that the STA performs a public service by providing ongoing, comprehensive, accurate and unbiased reporting on events in Slovenia and abroad for domestic and foreign audiences, in the Slovenian and English languages. |
− | + | The service is provided by a team of over 80 staff reporters and back-office personnel in the Ljubljana headquarters, and domestic as well as foreign correspondents. Starting out as a single news desk, the STA has branched into specialised departments spanning Home Policy, Foreign Policy, Business, Sports, Culture, Correspondents and the English Service. | |
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+ | The STA is a member of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and a partner in the regional alliances of Mediterranean and Balkans new agencies, AMAN and ABNA. It has news wire exchanges with key global agencies, which are a key source of content for international news | ||
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*[http://ms.sta.si/en/ ''Misli'' website on culture] | *[http://ms.sta.si/en/ ''Misli'' website on culture] | ||
*[http://slonews.sta.si/archive.php ''Slovenia News'' 2002–2004 online archive] | *[http://slonews.sta.si/archive.php ''Slovenia News'' 2002–2004 online archive] | ||
+ | *[http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO5868 Act on the Slovenian Press Agency] (in Slovenian) | ||
Revision as of 13:04, 22 February 2020
Publications
From 2002–2004 the Slovene Press Agency, Government Public Relations and Media Office, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the weekly English newsletter Slovenia News; online issues from September 2002 to March 2004 are available at the website below. Since September 2004 the newsletter has been published in a new format by the Government Communication Office.
STA Misli website
In 2010 the Slovene Press Agency launched the new website called Misli slovensko - Think Slovenian, later renamed into Misli (in Slovenian Think or Thoughts). The website features selected contents on arts and culture: interviews, cultural news from Slovenia and abroad, cultural policy issues, book reviews, statistics, etc), partly in English. Special blocks of news covered bigger international cultural projects like World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010 and Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012. The website is co-funded by the Ministry of Culture.