EFE news agency opens media links with Arab world

EFE President Alex Grijelmo said in Cairo Sunday that the main aim of Spain’s international news agency’s Arabic media service is to open lines of mutual communication among Spain, Latin America and the Arab world. Grijelmo said that the new Arabic service will offer ‘independent, impartial and objective’ news and its reporting will be provided by EFE’s roughly 2,000 journalists around the world. With the new service, EFE - the fourth largest international news agency in the world - also intends to foster its continued growth and penetrate the Arabic-language news media, especially in North Africa. EFE is launching the service in association with the German news agency DPA, which already has an Arabic-language media service and many clients, particularly in the Persian Gulf states. DPA will distribute to its branch offices the most relevant stories produced each day in Arabic by EFE, thus strengthening its reporting about Spain and Latin America. EFE, on the other hand, will seek clients mainly in the Maghreb region and will forward to its customers the most interesting stories produced by DPA. The Arabic service was launched on a trial basis in March and since then has provided more than 2,500 news items concerning Spain, Latin America and the rest of the world. (EFE News,April 25, 2006)

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