Baltic News Network (BNN) is a Baltic news website.
It was founded on September 1, 2010,
providing online news portals, mainly reporting for and about the
Baltic
Baltic may refer to:
Peoples and languages
* Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
*Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...
region,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Estonia
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. It is published by ''Latvia Baltic News Network''.
The ''Baltic News Network GmbH''
is registered in
Austria
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. It was founded by
Fred Zimmer.
The Baltic News Network is a member of the ''
Independent Media Association
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Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independen ...
''.
History
BNN was founded on 1 September 2010 by Fred Zimmer to counter perceived Russian disinformation, and emerged as a respected news source for the Baltic region. Based around predominantly selling stories to newspapers in the Baltic region, it has come to be recognized as an important political news source.
References
External links
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Mass media companies of Latvia
Baltic states
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