- Athens News Agency
The Athens News Agency (ANA) is one of the two major news agencies in
Greece .The other one is the
Macedonian Press Agency .History
The Athens News Agency (ANA) is the national news agency of
Greece . Founded in 1895 as a private company, the Stefanopoli Telegraphic Agency, the Greek State assumed its subsidisation in 1905, at which time it acquired its present name.In 1994 the ANA became a Societe Anonyme with a 7-member Board of Directors, three of whom are appointed by the government and one each by the journalist unions of Athens and Thessaloniki, the publishers' union and the ANA employees.
ANA collaborates with the international news agencies
Reuters ,Agence France-Presse , DPA, ITAR-TASS and a number of national news agencies, as well as the EPA photograph agency.All the ANA services are on-line, with an estimated 350 news items in Greek and 60-70 items in English updated daily. It also publishes an English 'Electronic Daily News Bulletin' containing all the Greek news. The ANA further has four data banks in Greek -- news, biographies of Greek and foreign personalities, election results and sports -- and a news bank in English (since 1992).
The ANA employs about 250 persons, of which 180 are journalists, and has offices in
Brussels ,Istanbul ,Nicosia andBerlin and correspondents in Washington, New York,Montreal ,Melbourne ,London ,Paris ,Vienna ,Rome ,Belgrade ,Skopje etc.ANA's General Director is
George Tampakopoulos , a former senior reporter with the daily "Kathimerini". The managing director is noted Greek journalist and international political analyst Nicolas Voulelis, while the Special English Service (wire service) and the electronic "Daily Bulletin" is headed byH.K. (Harry) Tzanis , a University of Houston journalism school graduate.External links
* [http://www.ana.gr Official Web Site]
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