TASS

CEOs

• J. Fenigstein-Doletsky 1921-1937 (executive director)
• Ya. Doletsky
• J. S. Havinson - 1943
• N. G. Palgunov 1943-1960
• D.P. Goryunov 1960-1967
• S. G. Lapin 1967-1970
• L. M. Zamyatin 1970-1978
• S. A. Losev 1979-1988
• L.P. Kravchenko 1988-1990
• L. N. Spiridonov 1990 - August 1991
• V.N. Ignatenko August 1991
• Sergey Mikhailov (for 2014)

History

2022: Site hacking

On February 28, 2022, the sites of RBC, Forbes, TASS, the newspapers Izvestia, Kommersant, as well as several other publications were hacked. On the main page of each of them there was a message from hackers calling for an end to the special operation in Ukraine. Read more here.

2015: Massive staff cuts

In January 2015, TASS CEO Sergei Mikhailov explained the mass layoffs of employees by the fact that "a global breakthrough in either qualitative or quantitative indicators of work" has not happened over the past two years. According to Mikhailov, the agency has not learned to earn more than spend: the main product - news - remains uncompetitive.

His words are quoted on the closed TASS resource, which only employees have access^[1] by the^[1]

"We release on average one news for two people, this news costs at least 3 thousand rubles, we have very little exclusive, well-quoted information. We still follow news trends, and do not form them, "said Sergey Mikhailov

As the top manager said, now up to 100% of the entire agency's budget is spent on salaries, which is unacceptable. In this regard, mass layoffs are planned in TASS (according to Газеты.ру, a quarter of employees will be fired). Individual units will be disbanded completely. The entire video and infographic departments will be fired.

The rest of the employees will be reduced by 20% and added work. According to Mikhailov, those who do not agree to such conditions can quit and receive three salaries (if they report their dismissal before February 13) or five salaries by quitting within a week.

The dismissal of a quarter of TASS employees and the reduction of salaries to the remaining employees became known on the evening of January 22, 2015. Prior to that, it was reported that 10 percent of the agency's employees would be fired. In early 2014, the agency, by contrast, was about to expand.

2014

Closing of the TASS-Telecom project

On February 3, 2014, it became known that TASS-Telecom, as a separate Internet project located at tasstelecom.ru, stopped working. Journalists remain in the state, and industry news can now be found in the Economics and Business section of the ITAR-TASS portal.

Name change to TASS

On October 1, 2014, the use of a new spelling of the name of the Russian state news agency, formerly known as ITAR-TASS, began. Now it is called TACC/TASS (in short form) or "Information Agency of Russia" TACC "/" Russian news agency TASS "(in full form).

The agency uses the name TASS and the new corporate identity in citation formats by other media, on Internet resources, in business printing, advertising materials and souvenirs, TASS reports.

The agency's initiative to return to the previous name was supported at a meeting of the organizing committee to prepare for the celebration of the 110th anniversary of ITAR-TASS in March 2014. On September 1, the 110th anniversary of the agent, a new logo and corporate identity were introduced.

brand of the oldest Russian news agency is designed to become a symbol of professionalism, enthusiasm, readiness for the self-development of its team and the agency's desire to protect and develop its best traditions," says TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov.

The agency's full transition under the new brand is planned to be carried out by the end of 2015.

1996: The agency's materials were first posted on the Internet

In the summer of 1996, the agency's materials were first posted on the Internet.

1992: Renamed ITAR-TASS

Since January 1992 - Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS), the abbreviation "ITAR-TASS" is used as a masculine noun.

On January 30, 1992, in pursuance of the decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the agency acquired a new name - the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR) - and began to transfer news to information tapes under the ITAR-TASS brand. Or - for messages abroad - ITAR-TASS.

1988

Central Hall of Automated Message Processing System TASS, 1988

1978

Teletype hall in the TASS building, January 25, 1978, Moscow.

1944

Main article: World War II

Window TASS No. 970 You are with us again, Sevastopol! Sokolov-Skalya P.P., Lebedev-Kumach V.I. May 10, 1944

1926: Creation of the press cliché department - the future TASS Photo Chronicle

On February 1, 1926, a press cliché department was organized as part of TASS. He began the history of the oldest photo agency in Russia and the CIS - the famous TASS Photo Chronicle. In fact, the agency's photo archive is almost a century-old biography of the state.

1925: Creation of TASS

1925-1992 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)

The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was created on July 10, 1925 by a resolution of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the basis of the Russian Telegraph Agency. He had the exclusive right to disseminate information about events outside the USSR. The information agencies of the Union republics: RATAU (Ukraine), BelTA, UzTAG, KazTAG, Gruzinform, Azerinform, ElTA (Lithuania), ATEM (Moldova), Latinform, KirTAG, TajikTA, ArmenPress, TurkmenInform, ETA were organizationally part of TASS.

1918: Renamed ROTA

1918-1925 - Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA). On September 7, 1918, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a resolution on the merger of the PTA and the Press Bureau at the All-Russian Central The Presidium decided that "the new institution should be called the Russian Telegraph Agency under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. The abbreviated name is ROSTA. "

1914: Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA)

1914-1918 - Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA)

1904: Establishment of the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency at the suggestion of S. Witte

1904-1914 - St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA). The idea of ​ ​ its creation belonged to the Minister of Finance Sergei Witta, which on June 14, 1902, Nicholas II agreed with the phrase: "The Sovereign Emperor deigned to approve both the thought itself and the expenses."

See also

• Media in Russia

Notes