About Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Independent, reliable and up-to-date
The German Press Agency (dpa) was founded in 1949 and is one of the world's leading independent news agencies. dpa supplies media, companies and organizations with editorial content. This includes texts, photos, videos, graphics, radio reports and other formats.
As an internationally active agency, dpa reports in seven languages. Around 1000 journalists work from around 150 locations in Germany and abroad. The shareholders of dpa are 174 German media companies. The dpa editorial team works according to the principles laid down in the dpa statutes: independent of world views, commercial enterprises or governments.
The central editorial office, headed by Editor-in-Chief Sven Gösmann, is located in Berlin. The management, headed by its chairman Peter Kropsch, is based at the company's headquarters in Hamburg. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is David Brandstätter (Main-Post GmbH, Würzburg).