MIC Izvestia is the first multimedia information center in Russia. It includes the news production center based on news services of REN TV channel, Channel Five, and Izvestia newspaper, as well as news website IZ.RU, TV channelы IZ.RU and 78. MIC Izvestia is a multi-platform media which generates and delivers multi-format information content (TV, print, online). Monthly online readership of MIC Izvestia is over 40 mln people.
An Internet portal IZ.RU allows for both twenty-four-hour news TV broadcasting and socio-political publishing. The editorial team works in an innovative format, and simultaneously broadcasts in several formats, including news, video, photo, and analytics.
Users can see the hottest news in the crawl line, and enjoy a number of modern visualization tools, such as 3D infographics with location-based maps, photo and video elements, the 360-degree camera. The portal has many state-of-the-art interactive features, such as auto-attendant and text-to-speech.
RT is a global, round-the-clock news network that includes eight TV channels broadcasting news, current affairs, and documentary content, digital platforms in six languages, and a global multimedia news agency Ruptly. In Moscow, RT Studios broadcast 24/7 in English, Spanish, Arabic, while RT America broadcasts from its own Washington, DC studios, RT UK airs from London, and RT France broadcasts from Paris. Today, RT has a global TV audience of 100 million viewers weekly in the 47 of the more than 100+ countries where RT is available. RT covers stories overlooked by the mainstream media, provides alternative perspectives on current affairs, and acquaints international audiences with a Russian viewpoint on relevant events. RT is the most watched TV news network on YouTube with more than 7 billion views. It is also the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Award for best 24-hour newscast and a six-time Emmy finalist.
Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency is an international media group which aims to provide prompt and balanced coverage of international events and to inform its audience about different perspectives on key events including stories that the other media outlets keep silent about.
Rossiya Segodnya is Russia’s largest producer of information products designed for a worldwide audience and provides radio broadcasting and newswires 24/7 in Russian, English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. It also has websites in 32 languages, international multimedia press centres, production and distribution of photo content and infographics, information products on social media, mobile apps.
Outside of Russia, the International Information Agency is represented by the Sputnik news agency and radio network. Sputnik websites get more than 50 million visitors. Twenty-two bureaus around the world, from Tokyo to Montevideo, employ more than 1,000 people from dozens of countries.
Margarita Simonyan is the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency and Dmitry Kiselev is its Director General.
Established in 1904, TASS is Russia’s state-run news agency.
TASS offers its subscribers a wide range of news services in both Russian and English. The news agency generates more than 1,500 news items and 500 photographs a day, thus producing an integral and unbiased picture of events from around the globe. TASS Photo Archive contains two million photographs and its database has more than 10 million documents.
TASS’ special projects and infographics have repeatedly earned national and international awards.
The news agency’s press-centers operate in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Pyatigorsk. Every year, TASS holds more than 1,000 various events on its own platforms and within the framework of major forums in Russia and around the globe.
TASS is a member of international and regional mass media organizations and maintains partnerships with more than 100 news agencies throughout the world.
TASS’ 1,800 employees in Russia and abroad keep the agency going in real time.
Business FM – Russia’s first business radio station.
Broadcasting in Moscow at the frequency 87.5 FM
St. Petersburg – 107.4 FM
Ufa – 107.5 FM
Kaliningrad – 101.8 FM
Ekaterinburg – 99.4 FM
Krasnoyarsk – 104.2 FM
Сhelyabinsk – 100.8 FM
Nignii Novgorod – 107.8 FM
Novosibirsk – 105.7 FM
Samara – 90.6 FM
Kazan – 93.5 FM
Business FM provides an exclusive product for a small segment of the general public but the most active and influential one, which in minutes must have the full spectrum of information about money. Business FM is a member company of the RUMEDIA group of companies. www.businessfm.bfm.ru.
Russian information channel “Russia 24” is the undisputed leader of fieldwork with the most important events – maximum live broadcasts, crews in the very action, access to true-to-fact information.
Three quarters of Russians note that “Russia 24” is the main source of information for them and more than half of the respondents states that they watch the TV channel regularly.
According to the information and analytics system Medialogiya, “Russia 24” holds the highest citation index among Russian TV channels in 2017.
TV channel “Russia 24” has created a single information space in the country, providing one-time access to the news to everyone from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad.
