Jordan News Agency-Petra
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General Information
It has correspondents in
PETRA became an independent entity in June 2004, following the dissolvement of the Ministry of Information. A special ordinance was enacted to give
The new ordinance grants the agency the right to sell some of its services to willing subscribers
PETRA provides news services in Arabic and English on its main outlet. The average Arabic daily news dispatches is 70-90, whereas this stands at 20-30 news items for the English bulletin. These figures might change according to daily events and activities inside and outside
In 1997,
In 2005 too, a training center was founded in
It has come a long way since news bulletins were distributed internally through systems that feed communication lines and the mechanical tele-printers, that later changed to computer sets,
Contact Information
- Address
- Amman Jamal Adb Al-Nasser Square - Queen Alia Street - Building Number 8
- Telephone
- +962 6 560 9700
- ZIP Code
- 11118
- Website
- http://www.petra.gov.jo
- Fax
- +962 6 568 2493