Editing TASS (section)

{{Short description|Russian state-owned news agency}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Russian News Agency TASS
| logo = [[File:TASS Logo (Latin) 2022.svg|160px|frameless]]
| image = Итар-Тасс.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| image_caption = TASS Soviet-era brutalist building in Moscow
| type = [[Federal State Unitary Enterprise]]
| foundation = 1904
| successor = 
| defunct = 
| location = Moscow, Russia
| key_people = Andrey Kondrashov (director)<ref name=kondrashov>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/05/07/2023/64a541909a7947e275763703|title=Мишустин назначил автора фильмов про Путина гендиректором ТАСС|language=ru|date=2023-07-05|website=Rbc.ru}}</ref>
| revenue = 
| industry = [[State media]] [[news agency]]
| products = [[News media]]
| owner = Wholly owned by [[Government of Russia|federal government]] (as federal [[unitary enterprise]])
| area_served = Worldwide
| operating_income = 
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| num_employees = 
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| subsid = 
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| homepage = {{URL|tass.com}}
}}

The '''Russian News Agency TASS''',{{efn|{{langx|ru|Информационное агентство России ТАСС|Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS}}}} or simply '''TASS''', is a Russian [[State media|state-owned]] [[news agency]] founded in 1904. It is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russia – Media Landscape |website=European Journalism Centre |url=http://ejc.net/media_landscapes/russia#link_312 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320003807/http://ejc.net/media_landscapes/russia#link_312 |archive-date=20 March 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=14 March 2016 }}</ref>

TASS is registered as a [[Federal State Unitary Enterprise]], owned by the [[government of Russia]].<ref name=KRadia>{{cite news|last1= Radia|first1= Kirit|title= Putin Rules the Rink|url= https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/putin-rules-the-rink/|access-date= 25 December 2014|publisher= ABC News|date= 10 May 2014}}</ref> Headquartered in Moscow, it has 70 offices in Russia and in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS), "along with 56 global branches in 53 countries".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About TASS |url=https://tass.com/today |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=tass.com}}</ref>

In the Soviet period, it was named the '''Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union''' ({{langx|ru|Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза|Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza|label=none}}) and was the central agency of the [[Government of the Soviet Union|Soviet government]] for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], it was renamed '''Information Telegraph Agency of Russia''' ('''ITAR-TASS''') ({{langx|ru|Информационное телеграфное агентство России (ИТАР-ТАСС)|informatsionnoye telegrafnoye agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS)|label=none}}) in 1992, but reverted to the simpler TASS name in 2014. Currently, on a daily basis TASS is "publishing nearly 3,000 news items in six languages and about 700 photographs and videos from correspondents in Russia and across the world".<ref name=":0" />