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Belga News Agency

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Belga News Agency is Belgium's sole national news agency, founded on 20 August 1920 by engineer Maurice Travailleur, journalist Pierre-Marie Olivier and King Albert I as the Société Anonyme Agence Télégraphique Belge, beginning operations on 1 January 1921. Shut down and replaced by the Nazi-controlled Belga Press during the World War Two occupation, it was rebuilt after liberation in 1944, split into separate Dutch- and French-language departments in 1970 to reflect Belgium's linguistic divide, and today employs about 80 permanent journalists and 30 correspondents from its Brussels headquarters.

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Company Type
Société Anonyme 1
Founded Year
1920 1
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Company Type (category)
News Agency 1
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Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    Belga) is the only national news agency of Belgium and serves as the main supplier of daily news to Belgian media.
  • Infobox: type
    Société anonyme
  • Lead section
    It was founded in 1920, primarily by Maurice Travailleur, as the Société Anonyme Agence Télégraphique Belge.
  • Operates In: News Media Industry, Infobox, industry field
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Wikidata: Belga News Agency
Wikidata Q815453, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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