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The European Alliance of News Agencies has decided to give Mr Jan Kodera, IT Director at Czech news agency CTK, the 2009 EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality. He gets the prize for his leading role in the design, development and deployment of a new CTK multimedia editorial system called MRS.

The EANA Bureau (board), which is also the jury for the Award said that:

"Multimedia is a key word for news agencies developing new services for media markets offering citizens news and other editorial content via a variety of platforms based the fast development of the information technology.

For the adequate production of multimedia services, access to an efficient editorial system is essential. The editorial system must be flexible and robust for text, photo, infographics, audio, multimedia packages etc. And - it must be based on the way journalists work.

The CTK team headed by IT Director Jan Kodera has developed an editorial system called MRS that is not only to the benefit of the Czech news agency but that is transferable internationally as it works with any Latin alphabet based language. Jan Kodera and his team have thereby contributed an editorial technical solution that can be to the benefit of the international news agency community."

Jan Kodera joined CTK in 1984. His first responsibility was hardware support, programming and maintenance of microcomputers and embedded systems. 1990 - 1992 he worked with adaptation etc of a new technical system for the agency. 1991 - 1996 he served as Chief of the Software and Development Department at the agency.

Since 1996 Mr Kodera is CTK?s Technical Director.
He is a graduate from the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in Prague.

The prize will be handed over to Mr Kodera by the EANA President, Mr M?ty?s Vince, President of Hungarian news agency MTI, in connection with an EANA conference and Annual General Assembly in Geneva on September 23 - 25, 2009.

For more information:
Please contact EANA's secretary general Erik Nylen, mobile +46 739 865272

The European Alliance of News Agencies has decided to give Petra Kaminsky, editor at German news agency dpa, the 2008 EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality. She gets the prize in her capacity as head of dpa-news for children and a newly formed team at the agency producing this specially tailored multimedia news products for young readers.

The EANA Bureau (board), which is also the jury for the prize said that:

"To attract future generations of readers is a huge challenge for the news industry.

With the service dpa-news for children, the news agency is in a constructive way helping publishers to attract the next generation of news readers. The dpa service offers a target group of children six to ten years old a specially tailored multimedia news service based on dpa's news service.

The service includes text, photos, graphics, animated items, material for websites and podcasts etc. With this high-quality news product for children, dpa is leading the way in forming alliances with publishers to attract future generations of news readers.

The prize is awarded Petra Kaminsky, in her capacity as head of the team producing the dpa-news for children, a service that already during its first year attracted an impressive number of clients in Germany."

The Jury honoured Albanian news agency ATA a Special Mention recognising the agency's ambition to develop new editorial products despite a most limited market situation and difficult developments in the past. The special mention referred to a new weekly online product called Milestone, offered to the agency's customers and created by General Manager Artur Kopani and Elda Pepa, Maela Marini, Arta Lleshi and Dritan Lleshi.

Petra Kaminsky is since January 2007 head of the dpa-news for children. She joined dpa as a trainee in 1989 and served at the agency?s bureaus in Cologne, D?sseldorf, Bonn, Frankfurt and at the headquarters in Hamburg. After a period as trainee, she worked as editor and reporter at the agency until 1995. She has also served as correspondent in Moscow and as fashion correspondent in Rome.

1997 - 1999 she was editor for a digital newspaper ICE-press/Der Tag, published by Spiegel -Verlag, Hamburg and 1999 - 2000 she was editor for a special interest business magazine.

In 2000 she returned to dpa where she served as editor and head of several departments, correspondent in London etc until she in 2007 took up the position as head of the dpa-news for children.

The prize will be handed over to Ms Kaminsky by the EANA President, Dr Wolfgang Vyslozil, CEO of Austrian news agency APA in Vienna, in connection with an EANA conference and Annual General Assembly in Nice on September 24 - 26, 2008.

For more information:
Please contact EANA's secretary general Erik Nylen, mobile +46 739 865272

The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) has decided to give Mr Phil Lakin, IT Director and Mr Paul Spencer, Operations Manager, both of them at PA Photos, the 2007 EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality. They get the prize for their contributions in establishing the ShootLive digital photography workflow. PA Photos, based in London, is a company within the PA Group also comprising the news agency Press Association.

The EANA Bureau, which is also the jury for the award said that:

"ShootLive simplifies the digital photography workflow process to such an extent that only the creative input of the photographer and skill and judgement of the editor are required to capture and deliver images from any event to clients in a variety of digital formats.
The ShootLive technology was developed by PA Photos but is also available for other media groups".

The patent-pending digital photography process has been used to cover the FIFA World Cup, the Oscars and many other key events over the last twelve months.

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The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) has celebrated its 50th anniversary as a forum for cooperation between European news agencies. The celebrations were held in Geneva in connection with a seminar on "Media Trends and News Agency Business" and the association?s annual General Assembly.

At the celebrations British telecom BT?s Chief Executive, Mr Ben Verwaayen, talked about the rapid development of the media environment. Dr Walter Richtberg, former Chief Executive of German news agency dpa and a veteran member of EANA, gave a brief review of EANA?s history.

The first EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality was awarded to Mr Meinolf Ellers, Managing Director of dpa-infocom in Hamburg, a subsidiary of German news agency dpa. Mr Ellers got the prize in his capacity as coordinator of the MINDS project (Mobile Information and News Data Services), a European project on mobile media services developed by dpa-infocom, Dutch news agency ANP, Austrian news agency APA, Hungarian news agency MTI and Swiss news agency SDA/ATS.

At the assembly Dr Wolfgang Vyslozil, Chief Executive of Austrian news agency APA was elected President for two years succeeding Mr Paul Tesselaar, Managing Director of Dutch news agency ANP who was stepping down after his two year term.

Mr P?l Bjerketvedt, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of Norwegian news agency NTB and Mr M?ty?s Vince, President of Hungarian news agency MTI were elected new Bureau (board) members for three years. The other two Bureau members are Mr Steven Brown, Managing Director of Press Association, London and Mr Erik Nyl?n, Stockholm, secretary and re-elected at the assembly.

EANA is registered in Switzerland as a non-profit membership association and has 30 member agencies. Its operations are financed via membership fees. Major objectives for EANA are:

The 30 member agencies are:

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MEINOLF ELLERS, dpa-infocom

WINNER OF EANA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEWS AGENCY QUALITY

The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) has decided to give Mr Meinolf Ellers, Managing Director of dpa-infocom GmbH in Hamburg, the first EANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality. Mr Ellers gets the prize as the co-ordinator of the MINDS project (Mobile Information and News Data Services), a European project on mobile media services developed by the German news agency dpa/s subsidiary dpa-infocom, Dutch news agency ANP, Austrian news agency APA, Hungarian news agency MTI and Swiss news agency SDA/ATS.

The EANA Bureau, which is also the jury for the award, said that:

"The MINDS project, co-ordinated by Mr Meinolf Ellers, combines the development of innovative mobile media services and business models that have proved to be attractive on the market as they represent highly integrated work-flows between news agencies and publishers. The project has also created a European network for market exploitation including trans-national deals".

The first national MINDS platform was launched in Germany by dpa-infocom in March 2005 with twelve newspaper publishers. The interest for the MINDS solution grew rapidly and in early 2006 almost 40 German newspapers operated their mobile services on the MINDS platform representing a daily circulation of more than six million copies.

Mr Ellers, 44, is since 2000 the Managing Director of dpa subsidiary dpa-infocom GmbH, Hamburg. Since 2005 he is also Managing Director of Globus Infografik GmbH (dpa subsidiary), Hamburg. 1998-1999 he started and was the chief of the central desk for entertainment, media, culture and science at dpa, In 1996 he was the team leader for the development of dpa-Online, Hamburg. 1994-1998 he was chief of the desk for culture and science and 1991-1993 the news agency/s bureau chief in Tokyo. 1987-1990 he served as special correspondent for German affaires to the English, Spanish and Arabic wire services of dpa.

Mr Ellers joined dpa in 1985 as correspondent and reporter for dpa in Essen.

The EANA Award will be presented to Mr Ellers by the EANA President, Mr Paul Tesselaar, Managing Director of Dutch news agency ANP, in Geneva on September 21, 2006 when EANA celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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The European Alliance of News Agencies/ General Assembly has elected three new Bureau (Board) members. The three new members, all of them elected for three years, are:

Mr Steven Brown, Managing Director, PA, London,

Mr Raoul Grunthal, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, TT, Stockholm,

Mr Waldemar Siwinski, President and Editor-in-Chief, PAP, Warsaw.

The EANA was founded in 1956 and will in 2006 celebrate its 50th anniversary. EANA is registered as a non-profit membership association at the Trade Register in Berne, Switzerland and comprises 30 European news agencies. President of EANA is Mr Paul Tesselaar, Managing Director, ANP, The Hague.

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Paul Tesselaar elected EANA President

Mr Paul Tesselaar, Managing Director of ANP, was elected President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) for two years at the General Assembly held in Moscow on September 23, 2004. He succeeds Mr Uffe Riis Sorensen, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Ritzaus Bureau, who has served for two years.

The General Assembly also elected Mr Bernard Reist, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of SDA/ATS, as Bureau member for three years.

The other Bureau members are Mr Gilbert Grellet, Director of External Relations and Partnerships, AFP, Mr Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director General, ITAR-TASS and Mr Erik Nylén, Secretary General, EANA.

The EANA 2005 General Assembly will be held in Geneva in connection with a seminar on September 22-23, 2005.

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Baltic News Service (BNS) in Tallinn, Estonia and Tanjug in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro are new members of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA). EANA thereby comprises 30 European news agencies.

Applications for membership from the above mentioned news agencies were recently approved by EANA´s Annual General Assembly held in Geneva.

The assembly elected Mr Gilbert Grellet, Director of External Relations and Partnerships at AFP in Paris to be member of EANA´s Bureau for three years. Mr Grellet has been a co-opted Bureau member since the beginning of 2003.

Mr Erik Nylén, Stockholm, was re-elected Secretary General of EANA for another three years.

The EANA Bureau comprises the following members:

Mr Gilbert Grellet co-opted as Bureau member

The Bureau of the European Alliance of News Agencies has decided to co-opt Mr Gilbert Grellet, AFP, as Bureau member until the General Assembly in Geneva on September 25-26, 2003. Mr Grellet is Director of External Relations and Partnerships at AFP.

The Bureau´s decision was taken in accordance with the EANA statutes in a situation when a position as Bureau member becomes vacant between two General Assemblies. Mr Giuseppe Cerbone had left the Bureau when he early 2003 left ANSA.

This means that the EANA Bureau has the following members:

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Mr Uffe Riis Sorensen, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau has been elected President for two years of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA). He succeeds Mr Andreas Christodoulides, General Director of the Greek news agency ANA who has been the President for two years and had decided not to stand for re-election.

EANA as Professional Organization

The European Alliance of Press Agencies has decided to change its name to European Alliance of News Agencies. The new name including new statutes for the organization were approved at an Extra General Assembly in Cracow, Poland on June 11, 2002. The organization was founded in 1956 and comprises 28 European news agencies.

The assembly also decided that the organization shall be registered in Berne, Switzerland as a non-profit membership association.

The purpose of EANA is to safeguard and promote the common interests of its members in all areas. It serves as a Pan-European professional forum for the establishment of contacts and co-operation as well as exchange of information and experiences and know-how among its members.

"When the organization was founded almost 50 years ago, it was probably correct to call the members press agencies but today it is more correct to describe the members as news agencies serving a variety of media and non-media clients," says EANA/s president Andreas Christodoulides, general director of Athens News Agency adding that news agencies in many cases today are developing multimedia services.

"Changing the name and having the EANA registered as a non-profit membership association in Berne is one of many steps taken in our work to further develop EANA as a professional organization for European news agencies," Mr Christodoulides says.

The EANA/s annual general assembly is held in Geneva on September 27, 2002 with a seminar for its members on September 26.

For more information, please contact the EANA secretariat
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October 1, 2001
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF PRESS AGENCIES
ATHENS NEWS AGENCY´s CHIEF EXECUTIVE RE-ELECTED
PRESIDENT FOR EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF PRESS AGENCIES

Andreas Christodoulides, director general of Athens News Agency (ANA), has been re-elected as president of the European Alliance of Press Agencies (EAPA) for one year.

Besides Mr. Christodoulides the following are members of EAPA´s board: Tadej Labernik, director general and chief editor of the Slovenian news agency STA, Uffe Riis Sorensen, managing director and chief editor of the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau, Paul Tesselaar, managing director of the Dutch news agency ANP and the EAPA secretary general Erik Nylén.

The European Alliance of Press Agencies was founded in 1956. 28 European news agencies are members. The annual meeting in Athens was held in connection with a management seminar on copyright. The first speakers at the seminar were Joerg Reinbothe, Head of the European Commission´s directorate for copyright and related rights and professor Thomas Dreier, University of Karlsruhe, both commenting on the new EU-directive on harmonisation of copyright laws in the Information Society. Among the other speakers at the seminar were Louise Cole, company lawyer at Press Association (PA), London, PA´s legal adviser Rachel Boothroyd and the Dutch news agency ANP´s legal adviser Joris van Manen.

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For more information please contact:
Andreas Christodoulides, Athens News Agency, tel +30 1 6400560, e-mail christod@ana.gr or Erik Nylén, EAPA, tel +46 8 301324, mobile +46 8 739 865272, e-mail erik-n@telia.com

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