Italy's leading press agency ANSA has launched ANSAmed, a new agency focused on the Mediterranean. ANSAmed's key goal is to create a forum for sharing information relating to the Mediterranean and to promote communication between countries in the area.
» Download the ANSAmed brochureANSAmed offers the same qualities that have won ANSA its outstanding reputation in Italy and around the world: reliability, speed, breadth of coverage and pluralism.
ANSA has been covering the Mediterranean for decades, which is why it has now decided to create an integrated communications network. ANSAmed acts as a central news pool, providing contact and encouraging dialogue between different political, economic, social and cultural entities that are geographically close but historically distant.
ANSAmed produces around 200 news items and features a day in English, Italian and Arabic.
It offers in-depth social and cultural coverage of the region, reporting on initiatives that encourage development. A central news-desk in Naples edits, organizes and transmits the material, which is provided by an extensive network of ANSA offices throughout the Mediterranean, including branches in each of Italy's 20 regions.
ANSAmed works with the Mediterranean's largest national press agencies, gathering, selecting and sharing information that is vital to decision-makers operating in the area.
Until now, such information has frequently been unavailable or else strictly confined to national borders, creating barriers foragencies and institutions seeking to access news.
Having become a central channel for news about and for the Mediterranean, ANSAmed hopes to develop into a communications network for the financial, political, social and cultural communities in the area. ANSAmed and its partner agencies are already working on a major Mediterranean portal that will bring this about.
The ANSAmed portal in English, Italian and Arabic will form a meeting point for the Mediterranean, offering daily news coverage enhanced by special features and research, as well as additional services for the business community.
ANSA has always insisted that ANSAmed should not represent the particular viewpoint of any one Mediterranean country or institution. Instead, the new agency should serve as a communications platform for all the different areas providing the news. ANSAmed has in fact signed a number of cooperation accords with the region's leading press agencies and will shortly sign further agreements with other media outlets.
