The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) ( el, Αθηναϊκό-Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων, ΑΜΠΕ) is a

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

-based

news agency 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, newswir ...

. It is a public entity anonymous company. It was founded in 2008 as the Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency S.A. (ANA-MPA SA), under a presidential decree which merged the

Athens News Agency The Athens News Agency (ANA; el, Αθηναϊκό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων) was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other being the Macedonian Press Agency, before they merged into the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA ...

(ANA SA) and the

Macedonian Press Agency The Macedonian Press Agency (MPA; el, Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων) was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other one being Athens News Agency, before they merged into the Athens News Agency-Macedonian ...

(MPA SA). The company has a nine-member board of directors, of which the majority (five members) comprises representatives of the

Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers The Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers ( el, Ένωσις Συντακτών Ημερησίων Εφημερίδων Αθηνών, translit=Énosis Syntaktón Imerisíon Efimerídon Athinón, Ε.Σ.Η.Ε.Α.) is a Greek trade union f ...

(ESIEA), the Macedonia-Thrace Union of Journalists (ESIEMTH), the Athens Union of Daily Newspaper Owners, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (and on rotation every three years the

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

and the

Panteion University The Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences ( el, Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών), usually referred to simply as the Panteion University, is a university loc ...

), as well as a representative of the workforce, who is elected by all the company's staff members.

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External links

Official website
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