EFE
| Company type | Sociedad Anónima |
|---|---|
| Industry | News media |
| Predecessor |
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| Founded | 3 January 1939 |
| Founder | Ramón Serrano Súñer |
| Headquarters | Avenida de Burgos, 8-B, , Spain |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Wire service |
Number of employees | 1,110 (2019) |
| Parent | SEPI |
| Website | www |
Agencia EFE, S.A. (Spanish: [ˈefe]) is a Spanish international news agency, the major Spanish-language multimedia news agency and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. EFE was created in 1939 by Ramón Serrano Súñer, then Francoist faction's Interior Minister.
Agencia EFE is a news agency that covers all areas of information in the news media of the press, radio, television and Internet. It distributes around three million news items per year, thanks to its 3,000 journalists from 60 nationalities, operating 24 hours per day from more than 180 cities in 120 countries and with four editorial desks in three continents: Madrid, Bogotá, Cairo (Arabic), and Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese).