About ANA-MPA

  ABOUT ANA

The Athens News Agency (ANA) is the national news agency of Greece. Founded in 1895 as a private company, the Stefanopoli Telegraphic Agency, the Greek State assumed its subsidisation in 1905, at which time it acquired its present name.

In 1994 the ANA became a Societe Anonyme with a 7-member Board of Directors, three of whom are appointed by the government and one each by the journalist unions of Athens and Thessaloniki, the publishers' union and the ANA employees.

ANA collaborates with the international news agencies Reuters, AFP, DPA, ITAR-TASS and a number of national news agencies, as well as the EPA photograph agency.

All the ANA services are on-line, with an estimated 350 news items in Greek and 60-70 items in English updated daily. It also publishes an English 'Electronic Daily News Bulletin' containing all the Greek news. The ANA further has four data banks in Greek -- news, biographies of Greek and foreign personalities, election results and sports -- and a news bank in English (since 1992).

The ANA employs about 250persons, of which 180 are journalists, and has offices in Brussels, Istanbul, Nicosia and Berlin and correspondents in Washington, New York, Montreal, Melbourne, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Belgrade, Skopje etc.

ANA-MPA's General Director is Ilias Matsikas. The special consultant to the General Manager is Andreas Christodoulides, while the Foreign Language Service (wire services) and the Daily News Bulletin is headed by H.K. Tzanis.

 SERVICES


ON-LINE ENGLISH service:
The On-Line English Service transmits the most important domestic news items (60-70 items daily) to foreign subscribers in Greece and abroad.

ON-LINE FRENCH service:
With the most important domestic news (15-20 items).

ENGLISH and FRENCH ELECTRONIC BULLETIN:
The ANA English and French Bulletin is a bilingual (English and French) electronic bulletin appearing daily (except Sundays) that covers domestic news and is targeted to foreigners in Greece and abroad.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWS DATA BASE:
The English language News Bank with news items going back as far as January 1, 1992. It contains all the news items printed in the daily ANA English Electronic Bulletin, with call-up possible by a variety of methods.

Services in Greek

INTERNATIONAL News Service:
Daily service with 150 international news items and reports from ANA correspondents abroad.

GENERAL Service:
Daily service with 350 domestic and international news items.

RADIO/TELEVISION service:
The Radio/Television Service provides continuous transmission of domestic and international news items, daily.

SPORTS service:
The Sports Service provides continuous transmission of international and domestic sports news.

PHOTOGRAPHIC service:
The Photographic Service supplies hundreds of photographs daily covering international news and tens of photographs covering the main domestic news items.

PRESS RELEASES Service (In Greek and Enlish):
The PRs Service (Press releases service) is a new ANA service for organizations, corporations, etc. It transmits, in full, the announcements of subscribers, which are sent via the ANA network to all the mass media in the provinces and Cyprus. The transmission also includes photographs.

GREEK LANGUAGE NEWS BANK:
The Greek language News Bank contains all news transmitted by the ANA since October 1989. The news items are classified by the code enabling call-up (search) by a variety of methods. As of January 1, 1992, the news items are classified by categories and contains dossiers on a variety of topics: (Macedonian problem, Cyprus issue, Ecology, Narcotics, Media, etc)

ELECTIONS DATA BASE:
The Elections Bank, containing all the Greek governments since 1833. It contains analytical electoral data since 1926 as well as analytical data on European Parliament elections in Greece.

BIOGRAPHIES DATA BASE:
The Biographies Bank is a specialised data bank containing the biographies of thousands Greek politicians (all the presidents, prime ministers, ministers and under-secretaries since 1833 and all the MPs from 1920 to the present). It also contains the biographies of more hundreds of foreign politicians.

SPORTS DATA BASE:
The Sports Bank contains sports news items since January 1, 1992, processed for ability of selection by subject (soccer, basketball, etc.) or by dossier (Korac Cup, Panhellenic Games, etc.) There are also two specialised data banks containing: a) the soccer championships in the Greek 1st division and 2nd division the matches played by the National Soccer Team and the games of the greek soccer teams in the european competitions, as well as b) the basketball championships in the A1 and A2 categories, the National Basketball Teams games played by Greek teams in the European Cups since 1989.

PHOTO DATA BASE:
The Photo-Bank contains thousands of photographs covering Greek and international news since January 1, 1996.

Marketing Department:

Τelephone: +(30) 2106400560
Fax: +(30) 2106400024
E-mail: sales@ana-mpa.gr

 General

 e-mail