Founded in 1991, the Slovene Press Agency 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 (96 per cent) by the state. It is a member of the European Association of News Agencies (EANA), and exchanges reports with the following press agencies: APA, ANSA, HINA, TANJUG, MTI, DPA, AFP, AP, IRNA, ATA, TASR, ITAR-TASS, Xinhua, MIA, MAKFAX and MINA. It has permanent offices in Brussels, New York, Rome, Vienna, Zagreb and Belgrade, and its correspondents also cover important events elsewhere in the world. STA's main products are its daily Slovene language service, an abridged service for the Slovene regional media, a daily information service from Slovenia in English and the STA daily bulletin. Every day it produces around 250 news reports in Slovene and an additional 40 reports in English. Furthermore, it also offers an original text service, O-STA, for unedited press releases from subscribers and a special service for SMS, WAP and web. STA is also a member of CEE, a business wire pool of 13 Central European news agencies.
Slovenia News in English
Issued since September 2004 by the Government Communication Office, Slovenia News is a weekly newsletter which covers politics, environment, culture, business, science and sports. Online versions of previous issues of Slovenia News (published by STA, Government Public Relations and Media Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2002-2004), are still available online.
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