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210682
Sun, 10/02/2011 - 10:25
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MNA, Spain’s EFE agency sign MOU
TEHRAN, Oct. 2 (MNA) -- The Mehr News Agency and the Spanish news agency EFE signed a memorandum of understanding for media cooperation.
The agreement was inked by MNA Director General Reza Moghadasi, EFE President Alejandro Grijelmo García, and Director General María Dolores Álvarez Morales.
Under the MOU, the two sides will explore ways to facilitate exchange of news, photos, video clips, and media delegations, as well as holding training courses.
Founded in 1939, EFE distributes 3 million pieces of news in the forms of text, photo, audio, video, and multimedia every year in 6 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician. The Spanish agency has 17 national and 39 international bureaus and keeps relations with approximately fifty news agencies worldwide.
With more than 3,000 professionals from 60 nationalities working in over 181 cities in 120 countries and four publishing houses, it is the world’s leading Spanish language news agency.
EFE is the fourth largest news agency in the world and the fifth main news agency of the world after the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The agency’s photo library stores 13 million glass plates, negatives, and slides and its video library contains 15,000 video tapes storing images and programs dating back to 1989.
Established in 2003, the Mehr News Agency (MNA) also releases news and photos in 7 languages: Persian, English, Russian, German, Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu. It also joined OANA in 2007.
To exchange news and photos, MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 17 foreign news agencies including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the Russian Interfax Ltd, the Press Trust of India (PTI), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the Turkish Cihan News Agency, Malaysia’s BERNAMA, Indonesia’s ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia’s MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), and the Philippines News Agency (PNA).
The agreement was inked by MNA Director General Reza Moghadasi, EFE President Alejandro Grijelmo García, and Director General María Dolores Álvarez Morales.
Under the MOU, the two sides will explore ways to facilitate exchange of news, photos, video clips, and media delegations, as well as holding training courses.
Founded in 1939, EFE distributes 3 million pieces of news in the forms of text, photo, audio, video, and multimedia every year in 6 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician. The Spanish agency has 17 national and 39 international bureaus and keeps relations with approximately fifty news agencies worldwide.
With more than 3,000 professionals from 60 nationalities working in over 181 cities in 120 countries and four publishing houses, it is the world’s leading Spanish language news agency.
EFE is the fourth largest news agency in the world and the fifth main news agency of the world after the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The agency’s photo library stores 13 million glass plates, negatives, and slides and its video library contains 15,000 video tapes storing images and programs dating back to 1989.
Established in 2003, the Mehr News Agency (MNA) also releases news and photos in 7 languages: Persian, English, Russian, German, Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu. It also joined OANA in 2007.
To exchange news and photos, MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 17 foreign news agencies including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the Russian Interfax Ltd, the Press Trust of India (PTI), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the Turkish Cihan News Agency, Malaysia’s BERNAMA, Indonesia’s ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia’s MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), and the Philippines News Agency (PNA).
