MNA : News Feature Photo Network

Since the inception of Mohammadi News Agency (MNA) in 1996, committed to the very basic principles of journalism with impartial, unbiased, independent, realistic and informative news based on facts only.

Though established initially with a view to operating as a regular news agency, MNA began to provide the local satellite television channels with news-based visual programs. The 100th episode of MNA’s own production “Business File” program on air in Channel-I television, the first digital satellite channel in Bangladesh. Eventually, the agency established itself as the first of its kind in the country giving a new concept to news agency service by providing the satellite channels with news-based programs. And this probably is the first of its kind in the region as well.

MNA also produced a whole lot of other programs for the other satellite channels in the country.

Mohammadi News Agency (MNA) is the sister concern of the Mohammadi Group of Companies (http://www.mohamadi-group.com), which is one of the largest groups in the country’s business arena. Though it is a very common phenomenon for a news agency to enjoy subsidy from the mother organization, the MNA family considers it as a dark part of the establishment as they have to depend on the subsidy of Mohammadi Group of Companies.

With over a hundred employees all over the country, MNA management is running the organization very smoothly- thanks to the majority of young blood both in the management and the operations team. The head office in Dhaka remains jam-packed with a total of 73 working staff including the management team always on their toes in three shifts. The others are scattered all around the country. The agency has contributing staff across the border as well. They cover the US, the UK, most parts of Europe and the Middle East.

MNA earned international recognition when a three-member MNA delegation took part in the 2000 Editors and Marketeers Conference in Berlin, organized by Paris based World Association of Newspapers (WAN). And MNA is the only organization, which represented Bangladesh in the international mass media arena. MNA covered and represented other international events including UN programs.

MNA has official agreement of news and information exchange with the Anacapri Municipal of Italy.

The news agency has recently taken up initiatives to specialise on Environment and Tourism to meet the growing demand of information on these issues in Bangladesh and the adjoing region.

MNA has opened an environmental desk.

The agency has been carrying out an extensive programme in association with the Directorate of Environment of Bangladesh Government to create awareness among the mass people of the country.

MNA also worked on the coastal tree plantation programme of Bangladesh Government.

MNA has started working on a tourism campaign in Bangladesh.

In one month's time, MNA is going to kick off and eco-tourism campaign in it's own style in Bangladesh with a slogan - "Explore the unexplored".