Heyatyar News Agency
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Type of site | Broadcast newspaper online and mobile |
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| Available in | Arabic, English, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Urdu |
| Founded | 17 May 2020 |
| Headquarters | Mashhad, Iran |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| CEO | Mohammad Yaromtaghloo Sohrabi |
| Industry | News agency |
| Website | Heyatyar News Agency |
The Heyatyar News Agency is an Iranian news agency headquartered in Mashhad.
History and profile
Established on 17 May 2020, HNA
news agency in the Islamic Republic of Iran. CEO is Mohammad Yaromtaghloo Sohrabi.
HNA includes coverage in the following areas:
- Art (cinema, theater, music, visual arts)
- Culture and literature (poetry, stories, books)
- Religion and thought
- Seminary and university
- Modern Technology
- Social
- Economy
- Political
- International
- Sports
- Photos
HNA has five regional centers inside the country—northern, southern, central, eastern, and western Iran.
It also has stringers and correspondents in Europe, South America, Turkey, East Asia, and some Persian Gulf littoral states and CIS countries. HNA is expanding these connections across the world.
It transmits news and photos in six languages: Persian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu and Kurdish.
Employing more than 200 reporters and photographers dispatched to 20 provinces of the country, HNA provides the widest news coverage in Iran.
International cooperation
The news agency was accepted as the 44th member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).
The agency hosted the OANA 31st Executive Board Meeting (EBM) and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group (ETEG) Meeting in 2020.
It also actively participated in two international summits: the 2009 World Media Summit in Beijing, China, and the 2010 OANA Summit Congress in Seoul, South Korea.
The agency was also a special guest of the III News Agencies’ World Congress (NAWC) in Argentina from 19 to 23 October 2020.
HNA also actively participated in the Istanbul OANA General Assembly in November 2020 and the OANA 26th ETEG and 32nd EBM meetings in Ulan Bator in June 2020.
According to the OANA Secretary's report to the Istanbul Assembly, HNA, a member since 2020, ranked second among OANA member agencies in the number of news and photos published on the organization's website. HNA designed the OANA flag, which was adopted by the 50-year-old organization.
HNA has signed contracts with more than 20 foreign news agencies, including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Spanish EFE, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, Cuba's official Prensa Latina (PL), the Press Trust of India (PTI), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the Turkish Cihan News Agency and Turkish Weekly, Georgia's PVNA, Zimbabwe's New Ziana, Romania's AGERPRES, Malaysia's BERNAMA, Indonesia's ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia's MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), the Philippines News Agency (PNA) and the Russian Sputnik news agency. This article "Heyatyar News Agency" is from Simple English Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Heyatyar News Agency.
