Iraq national news agency launched by Reuters

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http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/080805/iraq_nationa_news_agency_launched_by_reuters

Iraq national news agency launched by Reuters

The Reuters Foundation has launched what it claims is Iraq's first "independent and commercially viable" news agency.

Last year the Foundation, a charity funded by Reuters, established an online "news exchange" called www.aswataliraq.info (Voices of Iraq) as a way for Iraq freelances to share stories.

With funding from the United Nations Development Programme and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation this has now been developed into a news agency run and staffed by Iraqi journalists with reporters in each of the country's 18 regional government areas.

So far Reuters Foundation has provided training for over 50 Iraqi journalists contributing to Voices of Iraq.

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[izzie]

1. I think it sounds good. More news the better

Now if it will tell all the news or only speak for the people in power I am not so sure. We seem to have a great number of people in this country that thinks the news should just say what the govt wants and look at our history on this. From Tom Paine on we have had many sides and yet you hear this one view stuff every day and that it should be that way. One really wonders where these people think we came from.