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WAM Transmits Service to Over 3,000 Media Outlets
The Emirates News Agency (WAM or Wakalat Anba’a al-Emarat) has been in operation since 1976. WAM transmits its daily news service to more than 3,000 newspapers; TV and radio broadcast stations around the world.
WAM receives transmissions from 30 Arab, Gulf and international news agencies and has cooperation and news exchange agreements with 20 Arab, Asian and international news agencies, part of an effort to strengthen collaboration between the media of the UAE and other countries.
It is a member of the Group of Gulf Cooperation Council News Agencies, the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA), the Islamic News Agencies Union, the Pool of Non-Aligned News Agencies, ANSA-med and the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).
WAM provides daily news coverage of official and other events throughout the country and is one of the key sources of information for all media establishments in the Emirates. It provides coverage of around 90 per cent of official activities, as well as the activities of official delegations abroad.
WAM transmits news on national, regional and Arab affairs and is a widely respected source for international media. It also plays an important role in documenting development in the country, and in providing information to researchers and others.
WAM’s headquarters is in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi and has fully-equipped branch offices in all major cities in the UAE. WAM maintains a team of around 25 reporters outside the UAE, with offices in the Arab cities of Cairo, Beirut, Rabat, Riyadh, Damascus, Sanaa, Algiers, Jerusalem, Gaza, Khartoum, Amman, Baghdad and Tunis. Other offices and reporters are located in London, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Moscow, Washington, New York, Tehran, Islamabad, New Delhi, Istanbul and Canberra.
The Agency also operates a website (www.wam.ae) with services in both Arabic and English.
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