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Anadolu Agency
photojournalists win international photo award Photojournalists Alejandro
Martinez Velez and Omar Marques receive ND Awards
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Tugba Altun and Sumeyye Dilara Dincer

ANKARA
Two photojournalists from Turkiye's leading news provider Anadolu Agency on
Monday were recognized for their work at the ND Awards, a prestigious
international photography contest.
Alejandro Martinez Velez was awarded the Photographer of the Year by the ND
Awards for his photography series, Desolation, which include images captured
during the Russia-Ukraine War.
The images show the houses destroyed by the
bombardment, the people who lost their lives due to the war, and the
people who lost their loved ones.
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Velez, who lives in Madrid, focuses on social crises, human
rights and political issues in his work.
Omar Marques was awarded the Honorable Mention in the category of "editorial
environment" by the ND Awards for his photograph "The worst drought in Portugal
in the last 100 years."

The photograph, which was taken on Aug. 8, shows how the village of Vilarinho
da Furna in Campo do Geres city in Portugal, which was flooded 50 years ago due
to a dam project, has resurfaced due to climate change and increasing drought.
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Portuguese photojournalist Marques, who lives in the Krakow city in Poland,
focuses on Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans in his work.
* Writing by Zehra Nur Duz.
Anadolu Agency trains over 2,400 journalists in News
Academy last year News Academy holds 41 training programs, with almost 800
course hours
Gozde Bayar | 09.01.2023

ANKARA
Anadolu Agency's News Academy trained 2,439 journalists from different
countries last year.
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Istanbul Photo Awards announces jury for 2023
contest Getty Images chief sports photojournalist Cameron Spencer
'excited' to see depth of contestants' works

NKARA
The jury for the Istanbul Photo Awards 2023, organized this year for the
ninth time by Anadolu Agency, Turkiye's premier news source, has been announced.
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Anadolu Agency panel marks Women's Rights Day
Women's Rights Day in Turkiye celebrates adoption of law granting Turkish
women right to vote,
be elected in 1934 under leadership
of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Busra Nur Cakmak | 05.12.2022

ANKARA
Anadolu Agency on Monday hosted a panel on being a woman in the media in an
event to mark Women's Rights Day in Turkiye.
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Anadolu Agency's News Academy holds forum for international journalists
Nearly 1/3 of participants are foreign journalists, showing uniqueness of
training program, says Anadolu Agency's Director General Serdar Karagoz
Zehra Nur Duz | 27.10.2022

ANKARA
Anadolu Agency's News Academy on Thursday organized a forum for international
journalists at its headquarters in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
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Speaking at the opening session of the forum, Anadolu Agency Director General
Serdar Karagoz said the agency has provided war journalism training to nearly
500 participants, including many local and foreign journalists.
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Unparalleled forum with seasoned hands
A total of 15 international journalists who were trained earlier by the
agency - from Georgia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Ukraine,
Nigeria, Algeria, Chad, Kenya, Sarajevo, and Kyrgyzstan -took part in the forum.
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ANSA signs new
partnership deal with Serbian agency Tanjug Also important for bilateral
ties says ambassador Luca Gori

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 21 - ANSA has signed a renewed partnership deal with
Serbian news agency Tanjug as it expands its international collaboration network
after similar deals with Dutch agency ANP, India's PTI, Argentina's TELAM,
Uruguay's Uypress and Filipino press agency PNA.(More)
ANSA signs new partnership deal
with Filipino agency PNA Italy's top agency boosts international news offering
further

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 20 - ANSA has signed a new partnership deal with Filipino
news agency PNA as it expands its international collaboration network after
similar deals with Dutch agency ANP, India's PTI, Argentina's TELAM and
Uruguay's Uypress.
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ANSA seals coop deal with
Uruguayan news agency Uypress Envoy Iannuzzi, MD De Alessandri, Director
Valenti hail accord

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 5 - ANSA at the weekend sealed a cooperation deal with
Uruguayan news agency Uypress.
The collaboration accord, the latest in a string of such deals worldwide, was
signed in Montevideo in the presence of Italian Ambassador Giovanni Battista
Iannuzzi.
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APS, Cuban agency Prensa Latina
sign cooperation agreement
APS - ALGIERS- Algeria Press Service (APS) and its Cuban counterpart Prensa
Latina news agency signed an agreement to enhance bilateral cooperation on
information on Thursday, in Algiers.
The two agencies, represented respectively by the director general of APS,
Samir Gaid, and the chairman of Prensa Latina, Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta,
agreed on boosting bilateral cooperation on information, mainly through the
mutual use of multimedia content.
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Bouslimani urges unified concept to protect Arab
interests from digital hegemony
Saturday, January 14, 2023

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TUNIS-The Minister of Communication, Mohamed Bouslimani highlighted Saturday the
importance of establishing a comprehensive and unified concept within
the framework of joint Arab cooperation to fight against the digital
hegemony of media tenors and protect the interests of Arab countries, as
well as the values and principles of their societies.
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Bill on information consolidates
press freedom in accordance with Constitution

APS - ALGIERS- Minister of Communication Mohamed Bouslimani affirmed Tuesday,
in Algiers, that the organic bill on information consolidates the freedom of the
press in accordance with the Constitution and enshrines the citizens' right to
unbiased information.
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ATA and WAM sign cooperation
agreement on sidelines of Global Media Congress
On the sidelines of the Global Media Congress that is being held in Abu Dhabi
the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) and the News Agency of the United Arab
Emirates, WAM signed a cooperation agreement.
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ANSA-ATA expand scope of cooperation, new agreement
signed
The Albanian Telegraphic Agency, the main news agency in Albania, and ANSA
have signed an important agreement of cooperation in the presence of the Italian
Ambassador to Albania, Fabrizio Bucci.
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ATA launches operations in European Newsroom
The European Newsroom (ENR) project is officially launching, including 16
news agencies from across Europe, including the Albanian Telegraphic Agency
(ATA).
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Gabriela Canas:
Information hoaxes are "really a bombardment to democratic standards"
The president of EFE, Gabriela Canas, has stated that information hoaxes are
"really a bombardment to democratic standards" and her agency receives them,
searches for them and deactivates them every day. In a public panel on
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Media, Canas stressed that the reception
of false or misrepresented
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Efeminista, EFE's gender equality website, has received the Culture and Media
prize at the Progressive Women Awards 2022 in Spain. The jury, which also
awarded other prizes, recognized the work of Efeminista in the Culture and Media
category for "having become a reference website and an indispensable loudspeaker
for the achievement of equal opportunities".(More)
Agencia EFE,
the Gabo Foundation and Colombia's Universidad del Norte have signed a
collaboration agreement to offer training and incentives to students, teachers
and people interested in practicing journalism in Colombia and the rest of Latin
America.
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EFE
has celebrated its 50th anniversary in Central America with a photography
exhibition highlighting half a century of the region's history through 50 images
on display at the Museum of Freedom and Human Rights in Panama City.
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EFE has celebrated its 84th anniversary and has entered 2023 with numerous
milestones accomplished and with the firm intention of continuing to grow and
consolidate its work. It leaves behind a 2022 with 55 recognitions and awards to
its journalists, who cover global news from 180 cities in 110 countries.
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EFE and Radio Television Espanola (RTVE), in collaboration with the European
Parliament (EP), will train young journalists in Spain to report on the European
Union and explain to citizens how its institutions work and how the decisions
they make affect them.
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EFE will once again be the official media of the Spanish Pavilion at the next
edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), from February 27 to March 2,
following its agreement with the Spanish public business institution RED.ES.
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The Foundation of Urgent Spanish (FundeuRAE), promoted by EFE and the Royal
Spanish Academy of Language, chose the expression "inteligencia artificial"
(artificial intelligence) as "word of the year 2022" in the Spanish-speaking
world.
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The 57 Spanish journalists who have covered the war in Ukraine, including 19
from EFE, have been awarded by the Association of Information Media (AMI), the
main
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