theme №1 16.03.1999 (1999)

The work of the ITAR-TASS News Agency Topic: Teletype feed.

Information showcase.

The work of the Agency employees: news editors, photo service.

The recording of the program took place in the ITAR-TASS building.

Vitaly Ignatenko talks about the advent of a new era, in connection with the emergence of new information technologies.

Video story: The history of the emergence of the first telegraph agencies in Russia.

Black and white newsreel: streets of St.

Petersburg, Moscow, photographs.

The agency employees work at monitors.

The work of the teletype.

Photographs by the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (who dedicated his poems to "fact").

The work of the Agency's photojournalists.

Alexander Savenko talks about the work of news agencies in Ukraine, points out the large number of representatives of various media, the insufficient exchange of printed publications with Russia.

Interview with Nicolas Miletich, in whose opinion the news in Russia is much more interesting than in France.

Video story: Washington.

Press center of the US President.

Journalists attend the press conference of the official representative of the White House.

PJ Crowley - interview (about the work of ITAR-TASS).

Interview (in the studio) with ITAR-TASS journalist Nikolai Zheleznov.

He recalls how in 1966 they reported on the ceremony of reburial of the ashes of the Unknown Soldier, using telephone booths (payphones) in Moscow.

Vitaly Ignatenko recalls the events of 1993, when armed men, having penetrated and seized the Agency building, tried to force TASS employees to transmit information about the resignation of the President of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Nechayev, continuing the topic, tells how the operation to free ITAR-TASS employees took place.

Video story: Congratulations on the 90th birthday of the oldest employee of ITAR-TASS Anna Grigorieva (she reported all the reports from the Nuremberg Trials in Germany).

Professional merits of the correspondent.

Yoshida Shigeyuki (in the studio) discusses whether electronic media will displace printed media.

Alex Koifman on the advantages of paper book editions over electronic ones.

Interview with Yasen Zassursky.

Video story: ITAR-TASS correspondent in Japan Vasily Golovnin tells the story of the emergence of the TASS representative office in Japan.

Tokyo office of TASS. Work of the information bureau.

The oldest employee of the Tokyo office of TASS Matsumoto San was awarded a high award - the Order of Friendship between Russia and Japan.

The participants of the program discuss what is an information event, talk about the methods of transmitting news.

Igor Shchegolev's speech in the studio.

Interview with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on the interaction between the press center of the Foreign Ministry and TASS. Michal Broniatowski talks about the dangers that journalists are exposed to.

About the importance of dedication to this profession.

Nikolay Zagnoyko points out the need for conscientious and objective transmission of information material.

The correspondent was held captive for a long time during the conflict in Chechnya.

Vitaly Ignatenko on interaction with colleagues from former allied countries during the existence of the USSR. Talks about the work of the Union of Telegraph Agencies.