Cyprus News Agency (CNA) and Athens Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) renewed their strategic partnership on Tuesday at a special ceremony in Athens.
With the signing of the agreement by the President of ANA-MPA, Emilios Perdikaris, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CNA, Iosif Iosif, the renewal of the cooperation between the two agencies on issues of content and know-how exchange was made official.
According to the two heads of the agencies, the aim of the renewal of cooperation is to coordinate using new technological media, which offer enhanced possibilities in the production of information, as well as to ensure a valid and timely cooperation in order to enable ANA-MPA and CNA to serve even better the goal of informing the Greek and Cypriot society.
In his statements after the agreement was signed, Iosif noted that the renewal of the agreement was also prompted by the evolution of the media.
“I am particularly happy because after consultation with the ANA-MPA President, we have reached a renewed strategic agreement, which allows the two agencies to offer more information, richer content and synchronise the various methods in order to meet their work to the societies of Cyprus and Greece,” he said.
“We live in a technological era and a new agreement would be needed so that all new media and ways of information are covered. With this agreement I believe that we will achieve our goals by giving more direct and better information to the public,” Iosif noted.
In his statements, Perdikaris stressed that the relationship between the two agencies is long standing and traditional and the agreements are not needed to seal it, but today’s renewal sets a new framework for cooperation, more organised and modernised.
“The relationship between the two agencies is traditional. It does not need agreements to seal it but it is good to renew this mutual trust from time to time,” he noted.
This, he added, “is what we have done today with the agreement we have signed and we look forward to strengthening our cooperation in a new context, shaped mainly by new media and the effort to upgrade journalistic content through technology.”
“The technological upgrading of the two agencies, moreover, is a common intention of both agenciesm” Perdikaris concluded.
Source: Cyprus News Agency