The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) is a federation of

news agencies A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire, ...

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. The organisation was founded in 1956 and is based in

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

at the seat of the

Swiss Telegraphic Agency The Swiss Telegraphic Agency (German: ''Schweizerische Depeschenagentur'', SDA; French: ''Agence télégraphique suisse'', ATS; Italian: ''Agenzia telegrafica svizzera'', ATS; branded as Keystone-SDA/Keystone-ATS since 27 April 2018) is the natio ...

(sda). As of 2015, EANA has 32 members. EANA's predecessor Agences Alliées was founded in 1924 and was active until

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when its activities were discontinued. According to its Statutes, the purpose of EANA is "to safeguard and promote the common interests of its members", "to secure that member news agencies can work as providers of unbiased news". EANA also states that it supports the principles of freedom of the press and shall strive to facilitate for member news agencies to work in accordance with these principles. According to an LSE study of news agencies published in 2019, "because of their extensive embeddedness within national media systems, as well as their significant engagement with key stakeholders, news agencies offer a fruitful but neglected focus for a comprehensive and comparative study aiming to understand these structural changes in the contemporary media environment". Since 21 September 2018, EANA's President is Peter Kropsch, the

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of German news agency

Deutsche Presse-Agentur Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa) is a German news agency founded in 1949. Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is avai ...

(dpa). For two years since 26 September 2014 EANA's President was

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of the British news agency

Press Association PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency, and the national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is part of PA Media Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and re ...

(PA). Jonas Eriksson, the

of the Swedish

TT News Agency TT News Agency (Swedish: TT Nyhetsbyrån or simply TT; formerly ''Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå'' until 2013) is a Swedish news agency, the largest in Scandinavia, owned jointly by the country's newspapers and the media groups behind them. TT's serv ...

was President between 2016 and 2018 EANA offers each year a quality award to its members. In 2015 French news agency

Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C ...

(AFP) and its Global News Director, Michèle Léridon, have been awarded the ''EANA Award for Excellence 2015''.

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