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Central News Agency (Taiwan)

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Central News Agency
Central News Agency of Taiwan
中央通訊社
Central News Agency main entrance at Zhi Ching Building 1F
Abbreviation	CNA
Established	1 April 1924; 100 years ago (1924-04-01)^[1]
Founder	Kuomintang
Founded at	Guangzhou, Guangdong^[1]
Type	News agency (state-owned)^[1]
Legal status	Non-profit organisation^[1]
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Region served	Worldwide, 30 locations^[1]
Products	News
Services	Journalism
Official languages	Standard Chinese, English, Japanese,^[1] Spanish (closed 2021^[2])
Owner	Government of the Republic of China
Parent organization	Executive Yuan
Employees	300
Website	cna.com.tw focustaiwan.tw

Central News Agency

Traditional Chinese

中央通訊社

Simplified Chinese

中央通讯社

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngyāng Tōngxùnshè

The Central News Agency (CNA) is Taiwan's semi-official wire service.

In addition to its Chinese language edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and overseas branches in some 30 countries. It works with a number of well-known news agencies around the world, such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, and Agence France-Presse.

History[edit]

The CNA agency was founded 1 April 1924; 100 years ago (1924-04-01), by the Kuomintang party. Its headquarters was originally located in GuangzhouinGuangdong province, but had to be relocated to Taipei in 1949, following the defeat of the Republic of China government in mainland China in the Chinese Civil War.^[1]

Despite the corporatisation of the agency in 1973, it continued to receive heavy government subsidies, and remained the nation's official agency. At the time, CNA journalists received preferential treatment on various occasions, mostly government-related press conferences.^{[citation needed]}

After democratization, on 1 July 1996, the agency became a non-profit organisation under a bill passed by the Legislative Yuan.^[1] As of 2022, it is still Taiwan's official news agency, and received part of its funding from the Executive Yuan. However, its media influence is said^{[by whom?]} to have diminished due to a rise in competition after the government decided to lift restrictions on mass media.^{[citation needed]}

English version website is Focus Taiwan. A Spanish language edition, Enfoque en Taiwán, was closed 31 March 2021.^[2] In August 2021, CNA oversaw the launch of the TaiwanPlus streaming platform.^[3]