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Emirates News Agency

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State news agency of the United Arab Emirates

Emirates News Agency
وكالة أنباء الإمارات
وام
Agency overview
FormedNovember 1976(established)
18 June 1977(began operations)
JurisdictionGovernment of the United Arab Emirates
HeadquartersAbu Dhabi
Agency executives
  • Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi, Director-General
  • Abdulla Abdulkareem, Head of Media Coverage Department
WebsiteWAM

Emirates News Agency (Arabic:وكالة أنباء الإمارات,romanized: Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat), also known asWAM (Arabic:وام), is the officialnews agency of theUnited Arab Emirates.[1][2]

History and profile

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The WAM was established in November 1976.[3][4] It started an Arabic service on 18 June 1977, and an English service was established byPeter Hellyer in December 1978.[3]

It is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and is part of theNational Media Council.[5]

In addition to its national offices, it has international offices inCairo,Beirut,Washington,Sanaa,Brussels andIslamabad.[5] It is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council news agencies, theFederation of Arab News Agencies (FANA),[6] theInternational Islamic News Agency, theNon-Aligned News Agencies Pool[5] and of theOrganization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).[7]

The agency has cooperation and news exchange agreements with various news agencies, including theSudan News Agency,Bernama (Malaysia),Xinhua (China), theKuwait News Agency (KUNA),Petra (Jordan), the Indonesian News Agency, and theSaba News Agency (Yemen).[8] Since 2012, the agency has also been in cooperation withAnadolu Agency (Turkey).[9] WAM launched aHebrew language service in April 2021.[10]

References

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  1. ^"United Arab Emirates profile".BBC. 27 August 2013. Retrieved5 February 2014.
  2. ^"UAE Media Sustainability Index"(PDF). IREX. 2009. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 5 September 2014. Retrieved5 September 2014.
  3. ^ab"About Us".WAM. Retrieved5 February 2014.
  4. ^Khalid Al Jaber; Barrie Gunter (2013)."Evolving News Systems in the Gulf Countries". In Barrie Gunter; Roger Dickinson (eds.).News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries. New York; London: Bloomsberry. p. 34.ISBN 978-1-4411-0239-3.
  5. ^abcIbrahim Al Abed; Peter Hellyer; Paula Vine (2004).The United Arab Emirates Yearbook 2005. London: Trident Press Ltd. p. 275.ISBN 978-1-900724-89-0.
  6. ^Federation of Arab News AgenciesKUNA. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  7. ^K. M. Shrivastava (2007).News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Elgin, IL: New Dawn Press. p. 269.ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.
  8. ^Emirates News Agency (WAM) (Wakalat Anbaa al-Emarat) in Dubai DirectoryArchived 9 November 2019 at theWayback MachineData Dubai. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  9. ^International CooperationArchived 25 January 2014 at theWayback MachineAnadolu Agency. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  10. ^"UAE launches official Hebrew-language news service".The Times of Israel. 7 April 2021. Retrieved9 April 2021.

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