The Iraqi News Agency ( INA ), ( Arabic : وكالة الأنباء العراقية ) was established in March 1959 during the era of Abdul Karim Qasim and headquartered in Baghdad .
12-614: It is the second news agency among Arab countries in the region after the Middle East News Agency in Egypt , which was established in 1955. The Iraqi News Agency (INA) once had employed 320 editorial, technical and administrative staff and had 48 offices and correspondents in Arab and foreign countries. This number was reduced to 15 since sanctions were imposed on Iraq in August 1990. In April 1999
24-625: Is a list of newspapers in Egypt: Egyptian radio and TV channels are controlled by the government. However, in the past few years, several private satellite stations have been established in the country. Egyptian print media can be divided into the following categories: (Notes between parentheses indicate political, religious or institutional affiliations.) The independent electronic magazine Arab West Report provides weekly summary translations and reviews of these media in English in order for
36-471: Is among the former chiefs of the agency. Mahfuz Al Ansari also served in the post. In July 2005, he was replaced by Abdullah Hassan as editor-in-chief . In June 2014, Alaa Heidar was appointed editor-in-chief of the agency. The MENA is the member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies that includes the national news agencies of 18 Arab countries. The agency had cooperation with nearly 25 news agencies in
48-677: The 1990s. It offers news in three languages, namely Arabic , English and French . It has following six major services: (1) Local Arabic news of which target audience is those subscribers living in Egypt and covers political, social, economic, culture and sports news in the Arab world , the Middle East and internationally. (2) Press services which include features news analysis, and photo services and international sectors such as culture, art, science, sports and history. (3) Publications in print which informs
60-571: The Iraqi News Agency (INA) launched an Arabic and English site. And leading world news agencies such as AFP, dpa and EFE were subscribed to INA. Since the start of the war (with Iran in the 1980s), correspondents based there had "been tightly restricted on their movements, and had been provided with little more opportunities than to glean official statements and communiques, interview Western diplomats, who themselves were often isolated from official sources, and monitor radio reports and dispatches of
72-603: The main economic news concerning those who are part of the economy of Egypt . On 5 February 2014, the agency started a news website, called Bawabet Sharq Al Awsat . Egyptian newspapers The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, such as Turkish , French and English . By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. By 2011, daily newspaper circulation in Egypt increased to more than 4.3 million copies. The following
84-621: The official Iraqi News Agency". The government desired to have a single official source to promote important and sensitive news in a way that supported the government. "INA transmitted bulletins in Arabic and English 14 hours a day and is virtually the only source of news for the media. As with other media content, the news gathered and disseminated by INA is mobilized as propaganda supporting Iraqi political leadership. The Iraqi News Agency also functioned as an important source of policy guidance. It not only conveys news of
96-611: The regime's activities but also provides occasional commentaries or backgrounds which contain the regime's interpretation of events". As a whole, the Iraqi ; News Agency (INA) functioned as a propaganda tool for Saddam ’s government during his time. After the fall of Saddam , other news agencies were formed in Iraq , including the National Iraqi News Agency . But since 2017, Iraqi News Agency (INA), which
108-463: The subscribers about printed daily, biweekly and weekly. (4) Cairo Press Review which is a daily English-language publication, offering news published in the Egyptian newspapers . (5) Party Press Review news which is a biweekly publication in English about the main news published in the party newspapers in Egypt and (6) The MEN economic magazine which is a weekly English-language publication and offers
120-549: Was closed for several years after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, has been revived and introduced as the state run news agency of Iraq. Once, INA played a significant role in establishing the Federation of Arab News Agencies and now has become Iraq's reperesentative in the Federation. At the time of its establishment the Iraqi news agency’s English abbreviation INA was also used for a media organization called Arab News Agency, which
132-645: Was founded on 15 December 1955 as a joint stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. The agency, based in Cairo, began its operations on 28 February 1956. The owner of the agency became the Egyptian government in 1962. In 1978, the agency's owner became the Shura Council . In 1980, a board of directors was established and began to run the agency. It was later attached to the Ministry of Information . Mustafa Naguib
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#1732851672629144-404: Was owned by Reuters. Between 1959 and 1963, there were talks between Iraqi news agency and Reuters, which finally led to the transfer of this name to Iraqi news agency, and since then INA is used as the abbreviation of Iraqi News Agency. Middle East News Agency The Middle East News Agency ( MENA ) is a news agency based in Egypt . It is run by the Egyptian government . The MENA
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