Bernama-IRNA To Enhance Cooperation

TEHRAN, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- Bernama and Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) have agreed to enhance their cooperation in keeping with the changing media landscape and technology. Bernama chairman Azman Ujang held a discussion on the matter with IRNA Managing Director Mohammad Khodadi during a visit to the Iranian news agency here Sunday. They later signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) to renew cooperation between the two agencies. Azman had arrived in Tehran earlier Sunday for a five-day trip at the invitation of Khodadi. "With the changing media landscape especially with social media influence, news agencies need to revisit their traditional ways of operation," said Azman after the signing of the MoU. "Both IRNA and Bernama are doing this...both sides stressed the importance of upgrading skills of journalists in keeping with media technology advancement and increasingly discerning audience and readers. "No longer business as usual," he said. "For us we have Twitter news and infographics. IRNA, too has the same." Azman was also scheduled to meet Iranian high-ranking officials, visit School of Media Studies and Iran Press Institute which publishes various newspapers in different languages. -- BERNAMA