Photo: Michail Psylos, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency (ANA MPA) of Greece, delivers a speech at the inaugural meeting of BREIP in Beijing on June 27.
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The first thing for a news agency to survive amid various challenges in the 21st century is being able to provide high quality content, said Michail Psylos, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency (ANA MPA) of Greece.
Psylos made the above remark in a speech delivered at the inaugural meeting of the Belt and Road Economic Information Partnership (BREIP) held on Thursday in Beijing.
ANA MPA is one of the founding members of the BREIP, which is initiated by Xinhua News Agency and co-founded by more than 30 institutions including well-known news agencies, information service providers, research institutions, chambers of commerce and associations from 26 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.
Psylos first highlighted the importance of news agencies nowadays, saying that news agencies have been instrumental in creating the very conditions that have made globalization possible, and they are the most important players today.
However, he meanwhile noted, although news agencies are one of the most influential media types and key institutions of substantial importance to any media system, they are at the same time one of the least known media types, serving as the invisible nerve center that connects all parts of the media system.
In the era of full of various advanced technologies, media types and fake news, new agencies play a more important role than ever, because they can deliver the truth from a trusted, credible source. But meanwhile they will encounter many challenges, from figuring out data and fighting for top talents to keep up with consultancies and more, remarked him.
Nowadays, there are astounding political and economic shocks and the disruptive impact of new technologies in every part of our lives, and the circumstances in which news agencies report, produce, distribute and obtain the news have changed dramatically, noted him, "but we － news agencies － must advance the power of facts, unleash the truth. That is how we will have the greatest impact."
News agencies need to be able to provide high quality content in order to survive, highlighted him.
In order to achieve this goal, according to him, new agencies should ensure the reliability and delivery speed of information, confront any infringement and fake news, create the visuals and video to present information, and play the traditional role of media, namely, helping readers understand what is really going on.
Nobody can tell what the future of news agencies will be, but ''what we can say is that there has to be a true willingness for the agency of the future to be more adaptive and reflective of readers' needs. Only the ones who can adapt, will survive'', said him.
(Edited by Gu Shanshan)
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