BNO News is an international
news agency
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headquartered in
Tilburg
Tilburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. With a population of 22 ...
, the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. It provides news wire services to media organizations.
Overview
BNO News was founded by
Michael van Poppel of the Netherlands in May 2007. The company ran a popular Twitter-based news service called ''BreakingNews'' (initially called BreakingNewsOn) until December 1, 2009. It scooped regular news organizations on political news, natural disasters, and other breaking news and grew quickly in 2009, when it went from 16,000 to more than 1.5 million followers in less than 11 months, making it one of the most popular news services on Twitter.
[ The service was maintained by journalists from the Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States.
On September 7, 2007, BNO News obtained an authentic ]videotape
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featuring Al-Qaeda
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leader Osama bin Laden
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, which it licensed to the Reuters
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The agency ...
news agency
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.[ In February 2009, BNO News won the Best in News award at the 1st Shorty Awards in New York.
The Twitter account was acquired by ]NBC News
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on December 1, 2009, when the company announced plans to offer a subscription-based news wire service to other news outlets, primarily those in the United States.COVID-19 pandemic
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on a Twitter account called ''BNO Newsroom.'' It also provided a coronavirus tracker, which was visited more than 71 million times, in the early months of the pandemic. In August 2020 the company also created a database for confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19
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reinfection, which was used by researchers and government officials, including the health ministries in Spain and Brazil.NOTA TÉCNICA GVIMS/GGTES/ANVISA Nº 04/2020
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Awards and recognition
See also
* 2007 Osama bin Laden video
* List of social networking websites
References
External links
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@BreakingNewsOn: From Twitter Account To Public News Wire Service
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bno News
2007 establishments in the Netherlands
Internet properties established in 2007
News agencies based in the Netherlands
Organisations based in Tilburg
Twitter services and applications
Shorty Award winners