Notimex is the semi-official Mexican

Mexico

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 news agency

News agency

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. It was created on August 20, 1968, to handle coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympics

1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...

. It is headquartered in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 and has eight regional coordinating offices throughout Mexico. Its staff consists of over 300 writers, editors, photographers, reporters and correspondents.

It was originally called called Agencia Mexicana de Noticias Notimex. Its goals, according to law, were contributing to the realization of the people's right to information through the provision of professional news services, to Mexican state and any other person, entity or public body or private, domestic or foreign, with genuine editorial independence

Editorial independence

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 (Article 1).

In June 2006, following reform of its charter, its official name became Agencia de Noticias del Estado Mexicano. The principal reform was independence from the Secretary of the Interior

Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)

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 and administration by a governing board composed of representatives of the state.

Organization of Notimex

The administration agencies are:

• Governing Board. Composed of one representative from each of the following agencies: Secretariat of Public Education, Secretariat of the Interior, Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit
  Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit
  The Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit is Mexico's finance ministry. The Secretary of Finance and Public Credit is a member of the federal executive cabinet and is appointed by the President of the Republic.In Mexico the Secretary of Finance is the head of the Secretariat of Finance and...
  
  , Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Federal Electoral Institute
  Federal Electoral Institute
  The Federal Electoral Institute is an autonomous, public organization responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those related to the election of the President of the United Mexican States and to the election of the members of the Lower and Upper Chambers that constitute the ...
  
   and unionized workers from Notimex and two representatives of the Editorial Advisory Board;
• The Director-General, who is appointed by the President of Mexico
  President of Mexico
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• On July 30, 2007, Sergio Uzeta Murcio was approved unanimously by the Committee in charge of the Senate, as Director General of the new Notimex.