39th Executive Board Meeting of OANA wraps up in Seoul

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (MNA) – The 39th Executive Board Meeting of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) wrapped up on Tuesday. During the last day of the meeting on Tuesday, the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies issued a final declaration dubbed "OANA Seul 2015 Declaration" and emphasized taking new steps and strategies in broadcasting news and information to the audiences. In his closing remarks, Yonhap CEO Park No-hwang said the board meeting has allowed member organizations to share their common interests and concerns. In the declaration, OANA condemned the recent terrorist acts and reaffirmed the commitment to report such facts accurately without fear or bias. The rejection to the attacks was frequent in the speeches of the participants in this two-day meeting, in which a minute of silence was also observed, to honor the victims of the events of last Friday in the French capital. The association also said it will expand cooperation to maintain credibility of the member news agencies, especially in the age of mobile media. This meeting had as its central theme 'News Agencies in front of New Opportunities and Challenges amid the Boom in Mobile Communication', where it was recognized the need to strengthen cooperation as a way to survive and grow in the digital era. Participants also spoke for increasing competitiveness and professionalism of its news agencies through the exchange of experiences as well as human and material resources. The issue of cooperation was widely approached as recognizing it as the way to overcome the challenges these media face, affected by the international economic crisis and being forced to assimilate the pace of the shift from traditional to digital platforms. The conclusions of the debates are related to the need to develop products for new users, that means, to diversify services, with a view to serve a growing mobile market. http://en.mehrnews.com/news/112061/39th-Executive-Board-Meeting-of-OANA-wraps-up-in-Seoul