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Multilingual news services

  • France 24France 24 nearly launched under a name managers couldn't pronounce. The working title CFII was awkward to say in French.
  • Radio France InternationaleTogo's president phoned the Elysee Palace to stop a Radio France Internationale interview.
  • RT (TV network)RT launched in December 2005 as Russia Today, with 300 journalists and a goal of showing a different Russia.
  • ReutersReuters began with homing pigeons carrying financial prices. The agency was founded in London in 1851.
  • Deutsche WelleRussia shut down Deutsche Welle's Moscow bureau on the 3rd of February 2022. DW then moved its Moscow work to Riga.
  • BBC NewsIn the 1982 Falklands War, BBC News used an electronic camera in a war zone for the first time.
  • EuronewsEuronews began as Europe's answer to CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage. It first went on air from Lyon on January 1, 1993.
  • The Times of IsraelIn November 2023, web visits to The Times of Israel jumped 604 percent year-on-year.
  • Sputnik (news agency)Sputnik's own White House reporter quit in 2017, saying editors wanted propagandists, not real journalists.
  • Russia BeyondRussia Beyond paid the Daily Telegraph £40,000 per month to carry its supplement.

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