SRNA CELEBRATES ANNUNCIATION AND 33 YEARS OF WORK

BIJELJINA, APRIL 7 /SRNA/ - The News Agency of Republika Srpska - SRNA will celebrate today Patron Saint's Day of the Annunciation and 33 years of work.

SRNA, by the decision of the National Assembly of the Serb Republic of BiH at the time, was founded on Annunciation, April 7, 1992 in Pale as the Serb News Agency - SRNA.

SRNA is a media that had a great influence in the creation of Republika Srpska. Just a few days after the start of the civil war in BiH, on April 7, 1992, the first SRNA news was broadcast to the world.

The News Agency of Republika Srpska was the first media of the Serb part of BiH and was created at a time when the war conflicts had already started, and the main pre-war media in the then Socialist Republic of BiH were under the wartime and propaganda control of the so-called Republic of BiH.

SRNA is inseparably linked to the creation of Republika Srpska and represents one of its oldest and most important institutions.

Since its establishment in 1992, it has been a witness to stormy events and a chronicler of difficult times.

Prominent Serb intellectuals, journalists, writers who came from Sarajevo to Pale in the small wartime editorial office participated in the creation of SRNA.

Since 1998, the seat of SRNA has been in Bijeljina, and by the decision of the Government of Srpska on March 27, 2008, it received its current name - News Agency of Republika Srpska - SRNA.

Since its establishment, SRNA has published more than 3.5 million pieces of information - news, reports, coverage, interviews, analytical texts, audio and video reports, and photographs.

The News Agency of Srpska published 74,204 pieces of information in 2024, and 38,216 on its website. According to services, a total of 112,357 news items were broadcast, followed by 42,237 photographs, 2,464 phono-records and 4,538 video materials.

Since September 21 last year, SRNA has started broadcasting video-podcasts, new content for users, which is broadcast every Saturday on the YouTube channel and social networks, and the video content is also available in the Agency's service.

SRNA has so far hosted the highest representatives of the political, public, cultural and sports life of Republika Srpska and the region in its studio in Banja Luka.

With the podcast SRNA further strengthens the service and justifies the role of one of the most important media which, with objective, professional and timely information, has been serving the citizens of Republika Srpska for 33 years and justifies its slogan "They trust us".

In this year, SRNA continued to develop, and on March 26, an English-language portal, the first of its kind in the region, called "SRpska NAtional.com" began operating.

Thanks to this project, SRNA makes a breakthrough in the world media space, and the most important thing is that it enables the voice of Republika Srpska to be heard all over the world, which is one of its basic tasks.

The first news agency in BiH, and this time it is the first in the region to open a portal in English, which is especially important in the time of expansion of portals that often spread half-verified and sometimes incorrect information.