The Bulgarian News Agency /BTA/ keeps on being the most reliable and professionally working news agency in this country. BTA has been operating for over one hundred years.
At present, BTA employs several hundred journalists and translators. The agency also possesses a developed network of correspondents in the country. Due to financial difficulties BTA has almost no full-time correspondents abroad. Yet, it has a well developed network of stringers in the Balkans and Western Europe covering important events in the respective countries.
BTA has a considerable number of subscribers in Bulgaria and abroad: about 230 subscribers in the country and some 90 abroad. Practically, all larger media in the country are BTA subscribers. The institutions of the public administration and other big departments are also subscribed to the agency’s services. Apart from the considerable bulk of information products (newsletters, review articles, photos, etc.) the agency also publishes two weekly magazines.
BTA is a self-financing structure with revenues coming from subscription fees. Funding under the national budget accounts only for 10 to 15 per cent of its budget and can be disbursed only on technical equipment and other similar needs.
BTA has been operating based on a Statute, passed by Parliament in 1994. This Statute, defining BTA as a “national autonomous news institution”, is considered to be temporary as the final provisions of the Constitution /1991/ envisage the drafting of a separate law on BTA by 1994. However, such law has not been adopted yet.
Along with BTA, there are several other agencies, providing information. The private news agency, Balkan, disappeared from the market of information provision. Sofia Press, set up prior to the changes for the purpose of providing state propaganda abroad, managed to survive due to the specific nature of its status as a consortium based on artistic alliances: of writers, of journalists and of painters. Its newsletters are targeted mostly at the papers in the country. There are also several information pools that have subscribers mostly outside the capital.
It should be said that after the changes all national dailies subscribed to the services of the big international agencies and on its international news pages they publish both news and visual material, supplied by Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France Presse etc. The media are able to use information from various sources.
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