BelTA
BelTA is the Belarusian state-owned national news agency, established in 1918. It distributes official domestic and international news in several languages.
BelTA at a glance
- Country
- Belarus
- Kind of outlet
- News agency
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- belta.by ↗
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How Crosswire groups BelTA
Crosswire groups BelTA as Centrist for comparisons within Belarus' directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Belarus, SB. Belarus Segodnya is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open BelTA beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where BelTA sits in Belarus' press
BelTA is one of 5 outlets tracked in Belarus and the only news agency tracked there. By outlets tracked, Belarus ranks 37th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to BelTA outside Belarus, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are UNIAN (Ukraine), TASS (Russia) and ANSA (Italy). Opening one of them beside BelTA is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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