EFE or Agencia EFE, S.A. is the world’s fourth largest wire service after Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP). It was founded in 1939 in the city of Burgos but moved its headquarters in 2014 to Madrid, to Burgos Avenue (of course).
It employs as many as 3000 journalists from about 60 different nations and distributes more than 3 million news items each year. News that originate in press, TV, radio and the internet worldwide.
Wondering what EFE stands for? It is actually not an acronym and is pronounced like the Spanish letter F, “efe”.
EFE also distributes its news on several different websites tailored to geographic areas and languages spoken there and not just the national Spanish issue. In Spain for instance, there are four websites/subsets related to the regions of Castile and León, Valencia, Andalusía and the Canary Islands while. There are also two Portuguese websites, Brazil and Portugal and an English language version. Interestingly, the USA issue comes out in Spanish, not English.
EFE also writes several specialized news sites, amongst them on agriculture (https://www.efeagro.com/), tourism (https://www.efetur.com/), FundéuRAE, a non-profit foundation, which in cooperation with the Royal Spanish Academy or Real Academia Española “promotes good usage of Spanish in all media” and EPA, the European Pressphoto Agency which was founded in 1985 by seven European national news agencies.
Want to read more straight from the EFE (English) website? Follow this link: https://www.efe.com/efe/english/4.
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