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Thu, 04/22/2010 - 16:09
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OANA SECRETARY GENERAL: CONVERGENCE NEW MANTRA IN MEDIA INDUSTRY
Jakarta, April 22 (ANTARA) - Convergence is the new mantra in the media industry today and multimedia will be the future of news agencies, Saeful Hadi, secretary general of the Organization of Asia Pacific News Agencies (OANA) said at the OANA Summit Congress in Seoul on Thursday.
"Some people may say that news agencies are a dying species. It is a dead industry, a victim of the internet. When the public and newspapers as the traditional customers of news agencies can access information from the internet for free, why should they pay subscription fees to the news agencies?" he said.
At the OANA Executive Board Meeting (EBM) in Baku (2008) and in Tehran (2009), "we have already answered these critical questions. We 'news agencies people' do not see the internet as a dagger to kill us. On the contrary, we will use the internet as an enabler to leverage our role in the media industry," he said.
Syaiful Hadi who is also editor-in-chief of Indonesia's national news agency ANTARA said news agencies are still the backbone of the world's information structure, and they will continue to play this role by delivering more credible and valuable news and stories.
According to Saeful, some of the OANA members including ANTARA, do not only survive, but are also growing in the era of new media and internet. "We are on the right track because we have been using multimedia and adopting convergence," he said.
Antara, with a new legal status as a state-owned enterprise since 18 July 2007, is going to be a world-class multimedia news agency, together with Yonhap and other transnational news agencies, he said.
For Antara to be a multimedia news agency is a very long process as it took almost seven decades and until now it is celebrating its 73rd anniversary this year. "Antara was founded by our founding fathers and freedom fighters on December 13, 1937 to serve the struggle for national independence from the Dutch colonizers and the Japanese occupation", he said.
Saeful said ANTARA was the first mass media that disseminated the proclamation of the Indonesian independence on August 17, 1945.
Headquartered in Jakarta, the Indonesian national news agency has bureaus in all the provinces with nearly 200 correspondents who cover news events from the provincial level down to the district, subdistrict and village levels. The agency also has bureaus in New York, Canberra, London, and Kuala Lumpur.
To meet the people's demand for global information, he said, ANTARA has teamed up with news agencies in the world, such as Yonhap (South Korea), Bernama (Malaysia), AAP (Australia), Reuters (England), AFP (France), DPA (Germany), Xinhua (China), Kyodo (Japan).
Those news agencies were members of the ANEX (ASEAN News Exchange), the OANA (Organization of Asia Pacific News Agencies) and NNN (Non-Aligned News Network), he added.
Every day, no less than 500 stories are produced by its own reporters and 3,000 stories received from its foreign partners and are distributed to its clients through modern technologies, like VSAT, DVB, Internet, electronic mail (email), SMS, and file transfer protocol (ftp), he said.
ANTARA's subscribers are 280 newspapers and other print media, 11 national and 40 local TV stations, 65 radio stations, a dozen news portals, as well as government and private companies.
"Our Photo Services produce 56 photos per day and we have 160,000 photos in our archives. We have photo collection, most of which concern historic events, including flag arising by our first President Soekarno and Vice President Mohammad Hatta during the proclamation of Independence on August 17,1945.
Aside from providing news in text and photos, ANTARA also offers other services, including real time data from stock and money markets (Indonesia Market Quote/IMQ) and press release distribution (PR Wire), he said.
Likewise, ANTARA cooperates with well-known information providers, such as Reuters, Bloomberg and Bridge-Telerate. With other news agencies in Asia and the Pacific, ANTARA runs Asia Pulse in providing Asian business news service and operates Asia Net in global press release distribution.
"Some people may say that news agencies are a dying species. It is a dead industry, a victim of the internet. When the public and newspapers as the traditional customers of news agencies can access information from the internet for free, why should they pay subscription fees to the news agencies?" he said.
At the OANA Executive Board Meeting (EBM) in Baku (2008) and in Tehran (2009), "we have already answered these critical questions. We 'news agencies people' do not see the internet as a dagger to kill us. On the contrary, we will use the internet as an enabler to leverage our role in the media industry," he said.
Syaiful Hadi who is also editor-in-chief of Indonesia's national news agency ANTARA said news agencies are still the backbone of the world's information structure, and they will continue to play this role by delivering more credible and valuable news and stories.
According to Saeful, some of the OANA members including ANTARA, do not only survive, but are also growing in the era of new media and internet. "We are on the right track because we have been using multimedia and adopting convergence," he said.
Antara, with a new legal status as a state-owned enterprise since 18 July 2007, is going to be a world-class multimedia news agency, together with Yonhap and other transnational news agencies, he said.
For Antara to be a multimedia news agency is a very long process as it took almost seven decades and until now it is celebrating its 73rd anniversary this year. "Antara was founded by our founding fathers and freedom fighters on December 13, 1937 to serve the struggle for national independence from the Dutch colonizers and the Japanese occupation", he said.
Saeful said ANTARA was the first mass media that disseminated the proclamation of the Indonesian independence on August 17, 1945.
Headquartered in Jakarta, the Indonesian national news agency has bureaus in all the provinces with nearly 200 correspondents who cover news events from the provincial level down to the district, subdistrict and village levels. The agency also has bureaus in New York, Canberra, London, and Kuala Lumpur.
To meet the people's demand for global information, he said, ANTARA has teamed up with news agencies in the world, such as Yonhap (South Korea), Bernama (Malaysia), AAP (Australia), Reuters (England), AFP (France), DPA (Germany), Xinhua (China), Kyodo (Japan).
Those news agencies were members of the ANEX (ASEAN News Exchange), the OANA (Organization of Asia Pacific News Agencies) and NNN (Non-Aligned News Network), he added.
Every day, no less than 500 stories are produced by its own reporters and 3,000 stories received from its foreign partners and are distributed to its clients through modern technologies, like VSAT, DVB, Internet, electronic mail (email), SMS, and file transfer protocol (ftp), he said.
ANTARA's subscribers are 280 newspapers and other print media, 11 national and 40 local TV stations, 65 radio stations, a dozen news portals, as well as government and private companies.
"Our Photo Services produce 56 photos per day and we have 160,000 photos in our archives. We have photo collection, most of which concern historic events, including flag arising by our first President Soekarno and Vice President Mohammad Hatta during the proclamation of Independence on August 17,1945.
Aside from providing news in text and photos, ANTARA also offers other services, including real time data from stock and money markets (Indonesia Market Quote/IMQ) and press release distribution (PR Wire), he said.
Likewise, ANTARA cooperates with well-known information providers, such as Reuters, Bloomberg and Bridge-Telerate. With other news agencies in Asia and the Pacific, ANTARA runs Asia Pulse in providing Asian business news service and operates Asia Net in global press release distribution.
