Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse in its previous incarnation as Agence Havas, the world's first international news agency, have been around since the middle of the 19th century, selling international news to subscribers. But here's a new spin on the old idea: ARA or Associated Reporters Abroad. ARA's slogan is "We cover Europe for you," but not in the same old way.
"Now more than ever, readers are hungry to understand the world better and they deserve more than just the news wires. With our network of journalists, ARA fills in where a traditional model of foreign-based, salaried correspondents no longer applies," according to AFA's website.
Here's how it works:
Associated Reporters Abroad (ARA) is a Berlin-based agency whose mission is to increase and deepen foreign news coverage by connecting freelance reporters throughout Europe with editors and news directors across the English-speaking world. Each week, we will offer story ideas from our foreign correspondents via our website and electronic bulletin. Editors decide which stories they want to assign – or come up with their own proposals – then work directly with our correspondents to complete the projects. Alternatively, editors can choose from our selection of completed stories. ARA works in all the major formats: print, audio, video and photography. Providing high-quality features and breaking stories, investigative reports, analyses, profiles and reviews, our goal is to be a reliable, affordable, one-stop shop for original content from around Europe and later, the Middle East and North Africa.
The Knight Foundation in the U.S. found the concept of a network of freelance correspondents so innovative that it awarded AFA a $100,000 grant. Read more in the grant proposal .
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I believe that the kind of connection Europe and the western countries are making between news and news reporting really helps deliver a bigger, more clear and honest image of the news to everyone around the world. Because of these organizations, news isn't little bits of this and that about things that are happening, but it is presented to us as a big, well rounded report. I don't know if we have agencies like this in the Middle East because we really need something that connects us together as countries with same world concerns.
I think it is a good idea to get news from ARA because they providing readers with original, in-depth coverage of news developments in Europe. Their aim is to fill in the gap between the news wires and the traditional model of foreign-based,salarypaid correspondents that is going extinct. Their correspondents’ work gets edited and fact checked by ARA before being filed to ensure it meets the highest standard of journalism. I think we have here in Middle East agences which called MENA (Middle East News Agency) in Egypt.
i believe it's good idea to have like this agencies. i think this kind of organizations helps to deliver the right news and what the reader want's to know. if it's true that MENA is working like this organization, it's good for us, because they now more about our culture and can deliver the right news.
I think its a really good idea to have such an agency. by this way people can have the news delivered from the place itself with all its sides and without changes. reporters will be neutral and journalists will check it more than once before they confirm such an information. i think such an agency will help the people to be updated with the latest news in the world and will let them hear more than one voice at a time.
it is a good idea to make a connection between Europe and west countries. they will provide the readers correct news about Europe around the world. "Now more than ever, readers are hungry to understand the world better and they deserve more than just the news wires”. It is true that people are always hungry for interesting news, so good to have this kind of agency.
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