News Agencies

The NEDINE project aims at the creation of a news network throughout entire Europe. Initial partners are contributing their know-how and create business cases as well as fill the news plattform continuously with current press releases

PTE - pressetext.austria  

pressetext.austria (PTE) is the leading Internet-news agency in the German-speaking area dealing with production and distribution of content via the Internet. The company.s core competencies are the editing of news in high-tech, business, media and lifestyle as well as modern technical solutions to acquire, manipulate and deliver those and other eContents via most current document standards, content formats, technical delivery protocols and for multiple visualisation platforms.

After its launch as a dedicated service at Temmel & Seywald in May 1997, PTE became a separate legal entity in April 1999. In the year 2000 PTE entered the markets in Switzerland and Germany and expanded its news services to these countries. Since 2000 the company also runs offices in Berlin and Zurich. The company started its business as an on-line news service delivering news via the Internet only. Constant expansions of PTE´s editorial department in the past consolidated the high quality of its articles, which are now published in the range of five channels: high-tech, media, business, lifestyle and WebTV.

Within the first two years of its existence PTE has broadened its product mix from pure news service (OTS) to web publishing, syndication and WebTV transmission. PTE is a well-accepted service with over 110.000 subscribers for e-mail delivery service and 800 customers, who pay for distributing press releases via pressetext.austria. The company.s high quality editorial service and flexible e-mail delivery methods have attracted numerous leading Austrian and international companies to send their news releases via PTE. Such customers include Alcatel, 3COM, 3M, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Kapsch, Libro, Microsoft Austria, SAP, Siemens and Uniqua.

All services of pressetext.austria are developed and maintained in-house by a team of innovative IT and Internet engineers. The company has a broad experience in design and implementation of on-line editorial systems, which were already developed for several customers. Core functionality of these editorial systems include individual and independent content handling for editors based on a sophisticated authorisation system. All services are accessed by a web front-end and designed for real-time operation. A separate tool supports administration of the services.

CIA - Ceská informacni agentura  

.eská informa.ní agentura (Czech Information Agency, .IA) is an information and news agency focusing on news service and press monitoring.

.IA.s news services and monitoring are based on the principle of a fast and customised information service. One of their basic features is their flexibility, and thus also a quick adaptability to a client.s requirements. The aim is to ensure that the news is delivered directly to our clients and does not merely wait in a database.

.IA news service focuses on events in the Czech economics and politics. .IA issues approximately 100 on-line news each business day. .IA has a network of regional correspondents in the entire Czech Republic who provide its own economic and political coverage from regions. .IA monitors the following media: nation-wide and regional press, TV and radio programs, Internet servers (together over 300 sources).

During the time of its existence, .IA has won the trust of hundreds of clients among large, medium and small companies, either fully Czech, branches of foreign companies, or companies with foreign capital. .IA provides standard services in Czech, English and German according the clients. needs. Information from .IA is often being taken over by renowned supranational companies, such as for example Reuters and Internet Securities.

.IA would like to use this project mainly for making information on Czech economy and politics accessible in countries of the EU and Central Europe.

SITA - Slovakian News Agency  

SITA is the only independent news agency in Slovakia. SITA provides information from Slovakia since 1997 focusing on main domestic and business news both in Slovak and English language. Since 2000 it also provides specialized news service about Slovak entry into EU "EUROservis" that is free-of charges provided to all media, governmental and business entities in Slovakia. Nowadays, SITA provides work to approximately 100 journalists in all regions of Slovakia. Company publishes approximately 500 news items a day covering all needs of media and business sector needs.

Since 2001 SITA has also experiences from preparing specialized news bulletin (Slovak AM) about Slovakia in English language used mostly by foreign investors as well as other bulletins specializing on business sectors that are interesting for foriegn investors (telecom, utilities, banking etc). SITA also provides analyses about several sectors that are prepared always on special demand. Analysis about metallurgy, refining, banking and telecom are among those perpared by our analysts.

SITA has used its experiences in starting news agency in Slovakia also to help other independent news agencies to start working (ONASA in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, MINA in Podgorica, Montenegro, CIA in Prague, Czech republic).

At this moment SITA is looking for re-founding its place in Slovak market that will become a part of European market. Company has well-developed business inside Slovakia but doesn´t have any tools to broaden news from Slovakia as an new EU member also to other EU candidates and members. All public opinions surveys made in EU or in candidate countries show that EU candidates and members do not have enough information about each other. SITA believes that besides regional media and news services publishing news in local languages, some new system of collecting and distributing information for whole new EU will be needed.