Information about ANSA
ANSA, promoter of the Conference, is the biggest and most important Italian information agency.
Founded during the Second World War on January 15, 1945, ANSA this year, in its fiftieth year of operation, is able to assert itself as the first Italian agency with a recognized presence among the leading agencies in the world. Its first piece of news arrived by special delivery to a few clients in Rome three hours after the reported event took place. ANSA's mission then, as today, is to supply impartial, objective, complete and timely information to the media and to its direct users.
ANSA transmits daily around the world in four languages (Italian, English, French, and Spanish) through live, telephone and satellite hook-up. ANSA has for some time been developing on line technology to facilitate access to its information and to allow the direct use of its services by personal computer.
A complete reorganization of hardware and software now enables the use of the most modern systems of digital and interactive transmission, also through images. Furthermore, through internet and databanks, it is now possible to have access to some tailor-made services that in the future will develop into a personalized information system for the user.
ANSA statistics:
3400 firms or corporations are linked at any one time
9000 professional users of the ANSA information services
2000 daily news correspondents
43000 photographs every year 24000 of which are circulated through telephoto
18 regional offices in Italy
90 correspondence offices around the world coordinated by an editorial staff in operation 24 hours a day
480 journalists
829 correspondents, contributors, photoreporters in Italy and around the world
70 collaboration agreements with other international agencies
President: Umberto Cuttica
Administrator: Alfredo Roma
Director: Bruno Caselli
Public Relations Liaison: Renato Vichi
ANSA
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata Soc. coop. a r. l.
Via della Dataria, 94
00187 Roma
Tel. + (39) 6 67741
Fax + (39) 6 6774655
