German Language Service
The "dpa Basic Service" is the most important service that the dpa produces. The services produces over 800 daily reports from the entire world, in the subjects of politics, business, culture, sport and other miscellaneous news stories. Along with the international offices the twelve regional offices produce reports dealing with German politics, business, culture and sport. The dpa Photo Service provides customers about 350 photos daily.
dpa customers are provided the service for a monthly fee (fee is dependent on the size of the organization), additional fees are required for organizations that do not provide content to dpa.
The dpa Basic Service is the most significant German News Service. With that the dpa has an important role in "Agenda Setting" for German media. For decades the dpa has been featured in almost every German newspaper and news service.
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