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Multilingual news services
- France 24France 24 launched on the 6th of December 2006 at 20:30 Central European Time, initially as a web stream before satellite distribution reached Europe, the…
- Radio France InternationaleThe year 1975 marked the official birth of Radio France Internationale. This new entity replaced a long line of colonial-era broadcasters that stretched back…
- RT (TV network)RT launched on the 10th of December 2005 with a simple, explicit goal: to show the world a different Russia. At its founding, RIA Novosti director Svetlana…
- ReutersReuters reaches over 105 million readers every month, yet it has no single headquarters. The president of Reuters News sits in New York.
- Deutsche WelleDeutsche Welle launched its first shortwave broadcast on the 3rd of May 1953 with an address by West German President Theodor Heuss.
- BBC NewsBBC News first went on air on the 14th of November 1922, when a radio announcer at station 2LO read those now-famous words: "This is London calling.
- EuronewsEuronews went on air on the 1st of January 1993, broadcasting its first bulletin from the Lyon suburb of Écully. Behind that modest debut was a bigger…
- The Times of IsraelThe Times of Israel launched in February 2012. Journalist David Horovitz and American billionaire Seth Klarman co-founded the publication.
- Sputnik (news agency)On the 10th of November 2014, a new entity named Sputnik emerged from the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya.
- Russia BeyondRussia Beyond has operated under at least four different names since it first appeared in 2007. What began as Russia Beyond The Headlines, a newspaper insert…