Meinolf Ellers receives EANA prize
Meinolf Ellers, head of Dpa-Infocom, has won the European Alliance of News Agencies' award, which was presented for the first time.
The head of Dpa-Infocom, Meinolf Ellers, has won the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) prize, awarded for the first time. Ellers receives the award for his achievements as co-coordinator of the Minds project, a mobile news service, reports the news agency SDA. In addition to the German DPA, the news agencies ANP (Netherlands), APA (Austria), MIT (Hungary) and the Swiss SDA are involved in the Minds project (mobile news, SMS, MMS). Ellers will receive the award on September 21, 2006 in Geneva. EANA will then also be celebrating its 50th birthday.
