Ritzau

Ritzau

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Products	Wire service
Website	www.ritzau.dk

Ritzaus Bureau A/S, or Ritzau for short, sometimes stylized as /ritzau/, is a

and Lars Vesterløkke is editor-in-chief and CEO of the company.

History

Ritzaus Bureau was founded by Erik Nicolai Ritzau in Copenhagen on 1 February 1866 under the name Nordisk Centralbureau for Telegrammer.^[1] The agency received international news by telegram from Wolffs Bureau (now Deutsche Presse-Agentur, DPA) in Berlin.

Erik Ritzau died in 1904. His son, Lauritz Ritzau, was CEO of the company from 1916 to 1958. The Ritzau family sold Ritzaus Bureau to the Danish newspapers in 1947. In 2007,

became a co-owner of the agency. The company form was changed from an interessentskab (I/S) to an aktieselskab (A/S) in 2012.

Operations

Ritzau collaborates with three other

collaboration.

Scanpix

In November 2017, Ritzau acquired Scanpix Denmark from Berlingske Media with effect from 1 January 2018. Scanpix is the leading Danish stock photography agency in Denmark with more than 25 million pictures on stock in its digital and physical archives. It collaborates closely with sister companies in Norway, Sweden and Estonia.^[2]

Ownership

Ritzaus Bureau is today owned by 12 media groups;

• Dagbladet Børsen
• DR
• Jysk Fynske Medier
• Helsingør Dagblad
• JP/Politikens Hus
• Dagbladet Information
• Kristeligt Dagblad
• Lolland-Falsters Folketidende
• Mediehusene Midtjylland
• Sjællandske Medier
• Skive Folkeblad
• Nordjyske Medier

Awards

In January 1988, Ritzau journalist Jens Jørgen Espersen received the Cavling Prize for his covering of the Thorotrast scandal.

See also

• Media of Denmark

References

External links

• Official website
• Profile in English at Ritzau homepage (broken Oct. 2010)
• "I/S Ritzaus Bureau". Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister.
  Central Business Register
  .