Tanjug

Tanjug (acronym of Telegrafska agencija Nova Jugoslavija, German: news agency " new Yugoslavia ") was the official news agency of Yugoslavia and is now the national press agency of Serbia.

Tanjug was founded on November 5, 1943. Her responsibilities included the first reporting on the liberation struggle in the military occupied Yugoslavia.

In its " golden age " to Tanjug based on a global network of 48 correspondents, counted according to his own statement to the 10 largest news agencies in the world and was the leading news agency of Non-Aligned States. Among the outstanding achievements included claims to be the world's first-time coverage of the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961 or the taking of Saigon by North Vietnamese troops in 1975, moreover, the initial reports about Bobby Fischer's world title in 1972 in chess or through the military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. Additional events of historical importance, Tanjug reported on the first press medium 1968 were the suppression of the Prague Spring by the military invasion of the Warsaw Pact countries in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989.

From 1992-2003 was the state Tanjug news agency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 2003-2006, the state news agency of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Since 2006 she is the State News Agency of the Republic of Serbia.

Of importance is the photo archive of the news agency, which includes about 3.5 million photographs.

In the course of privatization Tanjug should be redesigned from 2007 in a market economy -oriented company. The Agency employed the end of 2006 a total of 313 employees, including 147 journalists, 27 translators and four press photographers.