Minds International with four new members
Minds International, the global association of digital news agencies, has admitted four new members. The group now includes news agencies from Australia, Denmark, Sweden, and South Korea.
At a recent members' meeting in London, the association announced the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the Danish agency Ritzau, Tidningarnas Telegrambyra (TT) from Sweden and the South Korean Yonhap News Agency as new members. The network, which was founded in 2007 by eleven news agencies, now has 22 leading agencies as members. The meeting elected Clive Marshall, head of the British news agency Press Association, as the new chairman of the board.
The newly elected Board of Directors also consists of Peter Kropsch (Managing Director APA - Austria Press Agency), Bernard Maissen (Editor-in-Chief Swiss News Agency) and Kakuya Ogata (Deputy Managing Director Kyodo/Japan). Paulo Nogueira dos Santos (Technical Director Lusa/Portugal) was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board.
