AA - Anadolu Agency photojournalists win international photo award  Photojournalists Alejandro Martinez Velez and Omar Marques receive ND Awards  (More)

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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. (More)

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. (More)

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's News Academy trained 2,439 journalists from different countries last year.  (More)

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Anadolu Agency's News Academy on Thursday organized a forum for international journalists at its headquarters in Ankara, the Turkish capital. (More)

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. (More)

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. (More)

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(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) - 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. (More)

(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. (More)

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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. (More)

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APS - 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. (More)

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. (More)

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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. (More)

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. (More)

The European Newsroom (ENR) project is officially launching, including 16 news agencies from across Europe, including the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA). (More)

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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 (More)

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. (More)

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. (More)

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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. (More)

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. (More)

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. (More)

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. (More)

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 (More)