Ritzau's Bureau I/S is the largest news agency in Denmark, supplying domestic and foreign news around-the-clock to newspapers, radio- and TV-stations, as well as to media websites. Financial institutions, organizations, major companies, the government and Parliament subscribe to Ritzau's news service. Technologically, Ritzau's Bureau is among the most advanced news agencies in the world.                                      
                                                                      
Accuracy, speed, credibility and independence are the backbone of Ritzau's corporate policy. Surveys show that Ritzau's Bureau is rated as one of the
most trustworthy Danish news media.

• The core product of Ritzau's news agency is the written news.
  
  
• Major news items may be accompanied by news' graphics. 
  
  
• Two external Danish photo bureaus, Scanpix and Polfoto, can link their press pictures to Ritzau stories at their own discretion.
  
  
• In addition, Ritzau offers soundbites and video in cooperation with the video agency Local Eyes to electronic media, including media websites.
   
• Ritzau co-operates closely with the national news agencies in Sweden, Norway and Finland and subscribes to the news services from Reuters in London/New York (global), DPA in Hamburg, AFP in Paris (global) and Itar-Tass in Moscow. Ritzau has its own correspondent in the EU capital, Brussels.   

                          
Ritzau's Bureau I/S is a media-owned partnership and includes three subsidiaries, which are owned exclusively by Ritzau's Bureau. 

• Ritzau's Medienet A/S operates a distribution and service network as an intranet, linking costumers to Ritzau's news service and other content providers such as photo agencies. The Medienet intranet is faster, safer and has a greater capacity than the open internet.
  
  
• Ritzau Medieservice A/S offers sports results, sports tabels, cinema tabels, radio- and tv-tabels.
  
  
• RB-Boersen A/S, a financial news agency, offers financial news to financial institutions, investors and major companies.

Ritzau's Bureau was founded by a young journalist, Erik Nikolai Ritzau, in 1866. Having fought in the 1864 Danish-Preussian war as a second lieutenant, Erik Nikolai Ritzau was hired the following year by a Copenhagen newspaper as an office clerk and proof-reader. He also began reporting from the Danish Parliament and the capital's City Council. Inspired by the paper's editor and the appearance of news agencies in other countries, Erik Nikolai Ritzau, then 26 years old, founded, what he - in an announcement to the public January 31 1866 - called "Nordic Central bureau for political and mercantile telegraph messages". The following day, on February 1, Copenhagen newspapers carried the first reports, with Ritzaus Bureau credits.

Contact
Contact Ritzaus Bureau I/S by using the form or by phone:
Phone: + 0045 3330 0000
Fax: + 0045 3330 0001