Agśensuv Kirav-Press
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| Company type | Open joint-stock corporation (ÁLO) |
|---|---|
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | Tuesday, March 8, 1853 (ILT) |
| Founder | Śirád de Mabior |
| Headquarters | Ansalon Island, Valēka , |
| Services | Wire service |
| Website | www.akp.kr |
Agśensuv Kirav-Press (/ag̊ʃɛnsʌv kɪrav prɛs/) is a Kiravian news agency and wire service. It was founded in 1853 AD by Śirád Mabior (Giraud de Mabior), a Kiravian businessman of Burgundine ethnicity.
AKP is a well-regarded source on Kiravian news internationally. It has been praised for its high standards of journalistic accuracy and objectivity. It is seen as much more independent of the Kiravian government than other Kiravian news outlets publishing in foreign languages, such as KT and KBS, while also not ideologically critical of it like Ğábravik. Its main competitor is Coscivian Wire Service International. While CWSI has an edge in reporting domestic breaking news and has more extensive reporting networks in Crona, Polynesia, and Northern Levantia, AKP has more extensive networks in Sarpedon and the countries of the Levantine Union, and is more valued by foreign publications as a source on Kiravian business news and political developments.
The name 'Agśensuv Kirav-Press' is a brùdispax attempt at foreign branding that is meant to appear to mean "Kirav Press Agency" while giving off a cosmopolitan, pseudo-Burgittan air. Effectively, however, the name is not comprehensible in any language and fails to feel foreign to Kiravians. The word agśensuv appears sporadically in a few written sources from the 1700s-1800s anno Domini as a Coscivian adaptation of the Burgittan agence, but was never taken up into the lexicon. An internal branding strategy report by AKP found that most Kiravians assume that Agśensuv is a proper name.
During the Kiravian Union, AKP was nationalised as the Kirav Press Information Service and became the central wire service for the KU state media complex, serving as the official clearinghouse for news stories and disseminator of the same to regional and local newspapers across the Union for publication. As the KPIS, it held a monopsony on news stories purchased from foreign wire services or freelance reporters, and was the sole employer for Kiravian Union-based reporters corresponding from abroad. In 1963 AD, over one quarter of the staff at KPIS Valēka head office were dedicated to ideological review and censorship of reports or the interpolation of propaganda. The agency was reprivatised in 1986 AD and reverted to its original name. Today it is an unlisted public company; per its charter, no shareholder may own more than 5% of its shares, a restriction intended to maintain AKP's journalistic integrity.