TASS

CEOs

• Y. Fenigstein-Doletsky 1921-1937 (responsible leader)
• Y. 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 (as of 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 appeared a message from hackers calling for the cessation of a special operation in Ukraine. More details here.

2015: Massive staff reduction

In January 2015, TASS Director General 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 to spend: the main product - the news - remains uncompetitive.

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

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

As the top manager said, now it takes up to 100% of the agency's total budget 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 departments of video and infographics 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 dismissal before February 13) or five salaries, having retired within a week.

The dismissal of a quarter of TASS employees and the reduction in salaries of the remaining employees became known on the evening of January 22, 2015. Prior to this, it was reported that 10 percent of agency employees would be dismissed. In early 2014, the agency, on the contrary, was going to expand.

2014

Closing of TASS-Telecom project

On February 3, 2014, it became known that TASS-Telecom, as a separate Internet project located at tasstelecom.ru, stopped its work. Journalists remain in the state, and industry news can now be found in the section "Economics and Business" on 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 "TACC News Agency Russia "/" Russian news agency TASS" (in full form).

The agency uses the name TASS and the new corporate style 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 in preparation for the celebration of the 110th anniversary of ITAR-TASS in March 2014. On September 1, on the day of the 110th anniversary of the agency, a new logo and corporate style were introduced.

"The new 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 full transition of the agency to a new brand is planned to be carried out before the end of 2015.

1996: Agency materials were first posted on the Internet

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

1992: Renaming to 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 accordance with the decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the agency acquired a new name - the Russian News Telegraph Agency (ITAR) - and began to transmit news to information feeds under the brand name "ITAR-TASS." Or - for messages abroad - ITAR-TASS.

1988

Central room of the automated message processing system TASS, 1988

1978

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

1926: Creation of the Press Cliché Department - Future TASS Photochronics

On February 1, 1926, a press cliché department was organized as part of TASS. With it began the history of the oldest photo agency in Russia and the CIS - the famous TASS Photochronics. In fact, the agency's photo archive is an almost centuries-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. She had the exclusive right to disseminate information about events outside the USSR. Information agencies of the Union republics: RATAU (Ukraine), BelTA, UzTAGH, KazTAGH, Gruzinform, Azerinform, ElTA (Lithuania), ATEM (Moldova), Latinform, KirTAGH, Tajikta, ArmenPress, TASS were part of the organization.

1918: Renaming to GROWTH

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 Executive Committee. The Presidium decided that "the new institution should be called the Russian Telegraph Agency under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Abbreviated name - GROWTH. "

1914: Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA)

1914-1918 - Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA)

1904: Foundation 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, who on June 14, 1902, Nicholas II agreed with the phrase: "The Emperor decided to approve both the thought and the expenses."

See also

• Media in Russia

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