Agencia EFE
Record phn-src-000025 · Last checked 2026-10-30 · Review due 2027-01-28
Organization and coverage
- Source role
- News agency
- Organization form
- public corporation
- Other names
- EFE · Agencia EFE
- Base locations
- Madrid, Spain verified detail
- Coverage
- global — EFE reports journalists in 110 countries and editing desks in Madrid, Bogotá, Cairo, Rio de Janeiro and Bangkok; figures are organization-reported.
- Languages
- Spanish
- English
- Arabic
- Portuguese — Service-level languages based on editing desk descriptions; exact full language inventory needs verification.
- Subjects
- general news · international affairs · Latin America · business · culture
- Formats
- text · photography · audio · video · multimedia
- Attribution
- Agencia EFE
Ownership and government relationship
EFE's official EFE Verifica page says the agency is a public company whose sole shareholder is Spain's state holding company SEPI.
Government relationship recorded: yes
Funding
Public ownership is recorded; current revenue mix not assessed.
Public funding status recorded: unknown
Editorial governance and safeguards
EFE cites its newsroom statute and an elected newsroom council; this records the stated mechanism, not its effectiveness.
Use and interpretation notes
- Useful Spanish-language and Latin American reach; keep ownership fact distinct from an assessment of newsroom independence.