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WAM, AGI ink cooperation agreement
Abu Dhabi, April 24, 2011 (WAM) - Emirates News Agency (WAM) and the Italian News Agency - Agensia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) - have signed an agreement for cooperation in news exchange and multi-media. Such cooperation is poised to serve subscribers of the two agencies, including print and online newspapers, TV channels and other media outlets around the world.
The agreement - signed today by Director General of the National Media Council (NMC) Ibrahim Al Abed and Age's President Daniela Paola - aims at exploring new horisons for cooperation. It provides for WAM disseminating news for the AGI's Arabic service, especially high definition video materials and their scripts in English and Arabic.
It will also enable the two agencies exchange texts, photographs, reports and TV materials and facilitate media training in the fields of editing and photo-journalism.
The agreement grants WAM and AGI the right to distribute these materials to their respective subscribers.
Earlier, Daniela Paola, who is heading a delegation from AGI on a visit to the UAE, made a tour of WAM facilities in Abu Dhabi and was briefed by the officials there about the services offered to subscribers and the latest technology used. The delegation members said they were impressed with the quality of services and facilities offered by WAM in the departments of editorial service, photography, as well as optic-fibre and online TV transmission.
Set up in 1950, AGI is one of the Italian leading press agencies. It operates on a nation-wide scale, headquartered in Rome, with 16 bureaus around Italy and the one at the EU in Brussels.
AGI works with prestigious partners such as Reuters, ITAR-TASS, France Presse and EFE. Its products and services range from AGI NOTISIARI, which are vital information tools for the media and industry, with more than 1.000 daily news from Italy and the world, to AGI WEB - news services tailored for the Internet world.
AGI English News, with about 100 real time daily news of chronicle, politic, economy and sport, supplies a complete view of major events in Italy and around the world. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
The agreement - signed today by Director General of the National Media Council (NMC) Ibrahim Al Abed and Age's President Daniela Paola - aims at exploring new horisons for cooperation. It provides for WAM disseminating news for the AGI's Arabic service, especially high definition video materials and their scripts in English and Arabic.
It will also enable the two agencies exchange texts, photographs, reports and TV materials and facilitate media training in the fields of editing and photo-journalism.
The agreement grants WAM and AGI the right to distribute these materials to their respective subscribers.
Earlier, Daniela Paola, who is heading a delegation from AGI on a visit to the UAE, made a tour of WAM facilities in Abu Dhabi and was briefed by the officials there about the services offered to subscribers and the latest technology used. The delegation members said they were impressed with the quality of services and facilities offered by WAM in the departments of editorial service, photography, as well as optic-fibre and online TV transmission.
Set up in 1950, AGI is one of the Italian leading press agencies. It operates on a nation-wide scale, headquartered in Rome, with 16 bureaus around Italy and the one at the EU in Brussels.
AGI works with prestigious partners such as Reuters, ITAR-TASS, France Presse and EFE. Its products and services range from AGI NOTISIARI, which are vital information tools for the media and industry, with more than 1.000 daily news from Italy and the world, to AGI WEB - news services tailored for the Internet world.
AGI English News, with about 100 real time daily news of chronicle, politic, economy and sport, supplies a complete view of major events in Italy and around the world. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
