Penza, 3 September 2014. PenzaNews. On Wednesday, September 3, news agency PenzaNews celebrates seven years since the launch of their website.

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According to Pavel Polosin, editor-in-chief of “PenzaNews,” these years of successful work in a dynamic news service marhet in the Penza region proved that the agency has passed the trials and took its rightful place among the other regional media.

Currently, PenzaNews is the most quoted news agency in the region.

“Seven years is quite a long term for any company, especially for a web-based one. A lot of them set up during this time, including pompous ones, but just as many closed down. In fact, it was very difficult to start back then, in 2007, when much was simply impossible to imagine. At that time, no one Penza did even had a concept of a ‘news agency.’ Many people asked us: ‘What is it? What do you do? Who needs this?’ These questions pushed us forward to create a full-fledged news agency in the classical sense, despite all the difficulties. And, I would say that back then we had no road paved for us at all — we had only a direction, a vector indicating where we had to move to get results. But today there is a great high-speed highway for completely different streams of information, where a lot of websites are seeking to overtake each other. And now, after 7 years, we are delighted to have been able to make a contribution to the development of new Internet segment of the Penza region information market,” Pavel Polosin said, addressing the news agency staff during the celebration on Wednesday morning, September 3.

He also thanked those who worked in the early years of the agency’s formation to create the news for the web, as well as those who are now working tirelessly for the sake of quality content.

“Working yourself through huge ever-increasing swarms of information every day is titanic work. If we compare the work of the journalist five years ago and today, I believe we will see that the volumes of information have increased manifold. And I find it very important that despite all the professional difficulties, every ‘PenzaNews’ employee always remembers the three main principles of our job: accuracy, honesty and efficiency,” Pavel Polosin added.

In conclusion, he said that today the creative team of the agency is facing a lot of obstacles, that have to be dealt with in order to continuously improve the work of supplying the readers with non-biased and reliable information about the current events, and there is plenty of time for that.

“One of the world’s first news agencies, ‘Reuters,’ was founded in 1851. Half a century has passed. The forms of information communication have changed: the Internet and satellites have replaced the telegraph cable and carrier pigeons. This agency is not only still working successfully — it is one of the largest agencies in the world. Just like that, ‘PenzaNews,’ that was founded in 2007 by a group of like-minded people, had been working back then, is working now and will be working in the future. It will move only forward, still following its own information policy, so that the people could know what we are the first to learn about,” Pavel Polosin summed up.

News agency PenzaNews website began it operations on September 3, 2007.

In February 2008, the website was registered as a mass media news agency in the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media.

The design of the Internet resource has changed in 2009 for the first time.

In July 2011, a new version of the website was pushed online, and the agency has changed its brand. The trademark comma sign became the new visual symbol of the agency.

The main aims of PenzaNews agency are: supplying the readers with a continuous news feed; providing the readers with a mailing list subscription; conducting press-conferences; producing radio news; translating the most important newspieces into English; and gathering and processing analytical, expert and strategic information.

News agency PenzaNews is the constant participant of regional and inter-regional professional fairs and is a winner of numerous professional competitions, both regional and all-Russian.