The APA – Austria Press Agency is the national news agency and the leading information service provider in Austria. It is owned by Austrian daily newspapers and the ORF. The APA Group consists of the cooperatively organized news agency and three wholly-owned subsidiaries and is active in the fields of news agency, picture agency, information management and information technology. In addition, the group includes international holdings in Switzerland (integrated news and photo agency) and in Germany (mobile publishing solutions). The APA editorial offices provide real-time news services in word, image, graphics, audio and video, the subsidiaries offer dissemination, research and knowledge management services as well as information technology solutions. The companies in the APA Group are aimed at professional users (information managers, PR and IT officers) in the media, politics, government and business markets. The APA fulfills its tasks independently of the state, government and parties according to the principles of reliability, speed and balance and avoiding any one-sidedness or partisanship.