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The Armenpress news agency was established in 1918 December 18 when with the decision of the National Council of the First Republic of Armenia a state agency - Armenian Telegraph Agency was created. The Armenpress news agency is the oldest and biggest agency in Armenia. It produces home, international, regional news bulletins, photo news and provides a wide range of analytical stories covering politics, economy, culture and other areas. News items are issued on a daily basis in Armenian, Russian and English. The agency has a rich information and photo archive, which is a unique source of information on Armenian and regional history. Around 100,000 photos are kept in the photo archive now. Armenpress is the member of the Association of National Information agencies of CIS countries as well as member of the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies, it cooperates with the world forum of news agencies and member agencies of these organization.

CivilNet – an online television and media source with a focus on human rights and democracy in Armenia, regional peace and the Diaspora. CivilNet – a program of the Civilitas Foundation, was founded on September 21, 2011. The goal of the Civilitas Foundation is to contribute to the strengthening of Armenia’s democratic development. The Civilitas Foundation was established in 2008.

Few institutions can claim as distinguished a place in recent Armenian history as the Hairenik Association, publishers of the Hairenik and the Armenian Weekly newspapers. Since 1899, Armenian Weekly's Armenian-language predecessor, the Hairenik, has reported, analyzed, and commented on the historic events of modern Armenian history, often in their staggering proportion, making it the longest-running Armenian-language newspaper in the world. As the first waves of American-born, English-speaking generations grew older, the need for a more mature publication in English was eventually filled by the Hairenik Weekly. In 1969 the paper’s name changed to the Armenian Weekly. Today, along with news of general interest to the Armenian-American community, the Armenian Weekly publishes editorials, political analyses, regular columns, and short stories and poems. While providing a platform for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Committee of America, the newspaper also functions as a space where a wide variety of views and opinions can be discussed openly and honestly. Although the Armenian Weekly’s headquarters are located in Watertown, Massachusetts, subscribers hail from as near as Boston and as far as Buenos Aires and beyond. The Armenian Weekly continues to meet the expanding needs of a more sophisticated, news-conscious Diasporan-Armenian public.