Agência Estado is a Private News Agency in Brazil. It was started by Brazilian media group Grupo Estado.[1][2]

Agência Estado
IndustryNews agency
Founded1970
HeadquartersSão Paulo, Brazil
Websiteinstitucional.ae.com.br

History

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Agência Estado was founded on 4 January 1970, with the main purpose of centralizing the distribution of news and photographs produced by the newspapers O Estado de S. Paulo and Jornal da Tarde in São Paulo, in the interior of the state, and in major capitals around the world.[3]

At the end of the 1980s, Agência Estado underwent a restructuring that involved changes to employees' working hours and investments in technology. During the 1990s, 75 of the country's 100 main publications reproduced the news distributed by the agency.[4]

In 1991, Agência Estado acquired Broadcast Teleinformática, a company responsible for providing stock and commodity quotes to the financial market.[5] In 1995, Agência Estado, through the website World News, began distributing Estadão's news on the internet,[6] making it the first company of its kind in Brazil to use the technology.[7]

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