LaPresse
LaPresse is an Italian multimedia press agency producing text, photo and video news around the clock.
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Overview
LaPresse is an Italian multimedia press agency with its main office in Milan for the European market and New York for the international market. It is a joint-stock company led by entrepreneur Marco Maria Durante, who holds all of its shares. The agency produces news in the form of text, photographs and video in real time, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and supplies its content to more than 90% of the editorial and broadcast market in Italy. It was founded in 1994 in Turin by brothers Marco and Massimo Durante, who acquired the historical archive of Publifoto, their father's agency. Today it has ten offices in Italy and fifteen offices worldwide, and maintains an exclusive partnership with Associated Press.
History
LaPresse was founded in 1994 in Turin on the initiative of brothers Marco and Massimo Durante, who acquired the historical archive of Publifoto, their father's agency. It is an Italian multimedia press agency with its main office in Milan for the European market and New York for the international market. It is a joint-stock company led by entrepreneur Marco Maria Durante, who holds all of its shares. The agency produces news as text, photographic images and video in real time, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and supplies its content to more than 90% of the editorial and broadcast market in Italy. It produces 3,000 photos per day usable through the lapresse.it portal, which includes an archive offering clients 1,800 news items per day, more than 50 million images and 110,000 videos from 1938 to today. It has ten offices in Italy — Milan, Rome, Turin, Florence, Naples, Verona, Treviso, Oristano, Messina and Lamezia Terme — with more than 94 journalists and correspondents under the direction of Alessia Lautone. It also has fifteen offices worldwide (New York, Washington, Miami, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw, Prague, Geneva, Vienna, Casablanca, Tokyo and Hong Kong) and a consolidated exclusive partnership with Associated Press.
Products and positioning
Multimedia content provider of reference for publishers, broadcasters, companies and institutions; described as the most international of Italian multimedia content providers.
Text news
Photographic images
Video news
lapresse.it portal and news archive
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