PanARMENIAN.Net is the first Armenian online news agency, an internet portal based in

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. The PanARMENIAN.Net information-analytical portal is one of the projects of the "PanArmenian Network" NGO. It was launched on April 2, 2000. PanARMENIAN.Net provides information and analysis about the main events in the social and political life of Armenia, as well as events taking place all over the world that are connected with Armenia directly or indirectly. Topics covered: Politics, Armenia and World, Society, Economics, Region, Sport, Culture, IT & Telecommunications. PAN Photo Agency, established by PanARMENIAN Network in 2009, is a major news & creative photography agency in Armenia. The photo agency covers all major social-political, business, cultural and sport events happening in the country, also presenting reports from all around the world via its international photographers and partners.

PanARMENIAN Network NGO

PanARMENIAN Network has started its activity from 1999. The mission of the organization is to contribute to the promotion of the national, historical, cultural and scientific heritage and values among the international community through modern information and communication technologies.

PAN News Agency

PAN News Agency (formerly known as PanARMENIAN.Net News Agency) was established in 2000 with a focus on

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. Besides the own content produced by in-house journalists and editors, the news service of the PanARMENIAN.Net uses the information flows of local and world news agencies. PAN News agency content is being spread out via various social platforms, publishing partners and content aggregates. PAN News Agency was a pioneering news organization in Armenia to use a

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on all its content and also include new content types in the news stories (photo stories, infographics and editorial cartoons) The news agency publishes its content in three languages: Armenian, Russian and English. Most of the users come from

, United States,

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and Russia.

PAN Photo Agency

PAN Photo Agency (formerly known as PanARMENIAN Photo) was established in 2009. It quickly became one of the major independent news & creative photography agencies in Armenia. The agency covers major social-political, business, cultural and sport events happening in the country and presents reports from all around the world via its international photographers and partners. PAN Photo cooperates with and provides photo wire for major international photo agencies such as

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(AP),

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(AFP),

Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was est ...

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and

Itar-Tass The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

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and others. PAN Photo images have been featured in numerous international media outlets including ''

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'', CNN.com, BBC, ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'',

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, ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Vogue'', ''

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'' and others.

PanARMENIAN.Net on Social Media

PanARMENIAN was also one of the first news service in Armenia to adopt social media and establish pages in Facebook and Twitter. PanARMENIAN.Net's content policy on social media channels has been noted as a good practice a number of times, since it was tailored for the specific audience of social media users. The Facebook page audience is notably different from the website's partly due to its language limitation (Armenian only), special way of posting content and social-media first policy resulting in publishing all breaking news on the page first.

Awards and recognition

* 2009 (April): European Integration NGO and the British Embassy in Yerevan praised PanARMENIAN.Net, for the second time, as "the news agency with best coverage of European events", between 5 agencies monitored as part of the framework "Monitoring of European Events Coverage". * 2009 (May): Union Of Armenians Of Russia Award received by PanARMENIAN.Net News agency, "for providing true and impartial information in three languages". * 2011 (July): Freedom of Information Center of Armenia awarded the "Golden Key" to PanARMENIAN.Net, for being "the media outlet most actively covering Freedom of Information issues". * 2012 (July): Yerevan Press Club award premiered PAN Photo Agency "for revealing new professional perspectives". * 2013 (March): Gyumri Asparez Club premiered PanARMENIAN.Net's photo service "for the quality

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", on the

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Day.

Publications

* "12 Days of Fest de Cannes" photo album, 2011 * “From disaster relief to risk reduction” – Photography workshops for children in Armenian regions was concluded in a photo stories book commissioned by

UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

, 2012 * "99" book dedicated to

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

, 2014. Contains all important facts about the 1915 events everyone needs to know.

Notable Projects and Exhibitions

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citizen photojournalism platform funded through a Department of State Public Affairs Section grant. * “The Armenian Highland in Photographs” Charity Auction organized together with

UNICEF UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to c ...

in Armenia and Honorary Consulate of Slovak Republic in Armenia, 2013 * “Speaking in a loud voice” – training and networking of emerging photographers and journalists in

Eastern Partnership The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint initiative of the European External Action Service of the European Union (EU) together with the EU, its member states, and six Eastern European partners governing the EU's relationship with the post-Sovi ...

Countries, with Sputnik Photos, 2013-2014 * PANMAN editorial cartoon magazine funded by the “Alternative resources in media” project financed by the

USAID The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...

. * PANreport citizen journalism platform funded by

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

office in Moscow. * 500 photos “experimental” exhibition, February 2011 * "Best photos of PAN Photo Agency 2009-2011" exhibition, June 2011 * “12 Days in Cannes” photo exhibition, July 2011 * "12 Days of Fest de Cannes", August 2012 * "Yerevan: a glimpse from the XXI century" photo exhibition organized together with the Ministry of Culture of Armenia inside

Yerevan Metro The Karen Demirchyan Yerevan Subway ( hy, Կարեն Դեմիրճյանի անվան Երևանի մետրոպոլիտեն, ''Karen Demirchyani anvan Yerevani metropoliten''; since December 1999), colloquially known as the Yerevan Metro ( hy, � ...

stations, September 2013 * "#Morooq" - The bearded men project exhibition, April 2014 * "The Face of Migration" photoexhibition curated by PAN Photo, September 2014 * "What Women Want" photo project for Lenta.ru, March 2015 * "100 Years of Silence" photo project for Lenta.ru, April 2015

References

External links

Official websitePAN Photo website
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