The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) is a Greece

Greece

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-based news service

News agency

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. It is a public entity anonymous company

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. It was founded in 2008 as the Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency S.A. (ANA-MPA SA), under a presidential decree which merged the Athens News Agency

Athens News Agency

The Athens News Agency was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other being the Macedonian Press Agency, before they merged together into the Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency .-History:...

 (ANA SA) and the Macedonian Press Agency

Macedonian Press Agency

The Macedonian Press Agency was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other one being Athens News Agency, before they merged into the Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency ....

 (MPA SA).

The company has a nine-member board of directors

Board of directors

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, of which the majority (five members) comprises representatives of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers

Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers

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 (ESIEA), the Macedonia-Thrace Union of Journalists (ESIEMTH), the Athens Union of Daily Newspaper Owners, the University of Athens (and on rotation every three years the University of Thessaloniki and the Panteion University

Panteion University

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), as well as a representative of the workforce, who is elected by all the company’s staff members.