Ma'an News Agency

Ma'an News Agency (MNA)
Founded2005
FounderRaed Othman
Headquarters
Palestinian territories
Websitewww.maannews.net

Ma'an News Agency (MNA; Arabic: وكالة معا الإخبارية) is a large wire service created in 2005 in the Palestinian territories.[1][2] It is part of the Ma'an Network, a non-governmental organization media network created in 2002[1] in the Palestinian territories among independent journalists throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has partnerships with eight local television stations and twelve local radio stations. Ma'an News Agency publishes news 24 hours a day in Arabic, Hebrew and English, and claims to be one of the largest wire services in the Palestinian territories, with over three million visits per month.[1] Ma'an News Agency also publishes feature stories, analysis and opinion articles. The agency's headquarters are based in Bethlehem and it has an office in Gaza.

  1. ^ a b c "About us". Ma'an News Agency. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  2. ^ National Profile of the Information Society In Palestine Archived 2013-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, United Nations, New York, 2009, p. 13.