Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. or Walta, previously called Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C., or Walta Information Center, is an Ethiopian commercial
media conglomerate
A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. According to t ...
owned and operated by the
Ethiopian government. Walta, located in
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, ...
, was founded in 1994 and supplies the
Ethiopian News Agency
The Ethiopian News Agency ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ዜና አገልግሎት ''Ye-Ityopya Zéna Agelgelot'' (IZA) or ENA) is the official news agency of the Government of Ethiopia. It is the oldest news organization in Ethiopia.
IZA's inception ...
and other media with local and national news.
History
Walta has been affiliated with the
Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier. , Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the
Prosperity Party.
Contents
As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in
English,
Amharic and
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
with local, national and international news and a TV station,
Walta TV, broadcasting mainly social and political news in Amharic over satellite.
Objectives
According to Walta, it gathers, organizes, analyzes and disseminates news and provides "image building and public relation support activities".
References
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[{{cite web , last1= Skjerdal , first1= Terje , last2= Moges , first2= Mulatu Alemayehu , title= The ethnification of the Ethiopian media , date= 2020-11-26 , website=Fojo Media Institute, International Media Support , url= https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-and-Ethnicity-Ethiopia.pdf , access-date=2020-12-24 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201224085041/https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-and-Ethnicity-Ethiopia.pdf , archive-date= 2020-12-24 , url-status=live ]
External links
Walta website(English and Amharic)
Mass media in Ethiopia
Mass media in Addis Ababa