Aliança das Agências de Informação de Língua Portuguesa

Building the Lusa in Lisbon, the ALP seat

The Aliança das Agências de Informação de Língua Portuguesa ( ALP , German  Association of Portuguese- Language News Agencies ) is an association of the official news agencies of the Portuguese-speaking countries .

The aim of the association is u. a. mutual support in democratic development and the protection of human rights, and the free and as wide as possible dissemination of news. Mutual development cooperation in training and technical equipment is one of the other goals.

history

The alliance was founded at the Communication Forum of the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP) in Lisbon in July 1996. The founding members were the news agencies of the then seven countries with the state language Portuguese. The first president was Luís Felipe Silva , general director of the Cape Verdean Cabopress.

At the 6th general assembly of the ALP at the end of November 2013 at the headquarters of the Brazilian Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) in Brasília , the member agencies agreed to create a joint website and later a joint news agency. It is intended to help compensate for the uneven development of the various agencies and to further support the sometimes fragile democracies. The financing by the governments and a uniform orthographic regulation for the website now had to be clarified .

After it was founded in 2016, the East Timors agency was incorporated into the ALP.

Members

• Angola: Agência Angola Press
• Brazil: Agência Brasil
• Guinea-Bissau: Agência de Notícias da Guiné
• Cape Verde: Agência Cabo-Verdiana de Notícias
• Mozambique: Agência de Informação de Moçambique
• East Timor: Agência Noticiosa de Timor-Leste
• Portugal: Lusa
• São Tomé and Príncipe: STP-Press

President

• Luís Felipe Silva (Cabopress, Cape Verde), founded in 1996
• Daniel Miguel Jorge (ANGOP, Angola)
• Nelson Breve (EBC, Brazil), since 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} joint declaration and statutes of the Aliança das Agências de Informação de Língua Portuguesa on the website of the Portuguese media authority GMCS, accessed on March 14, 2018
2. ↑ To site conjunto para os países de língua portuguesa - "A common website for the Portuguese-speaking countries" , article from November 25, 2013 in the official blog of the Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa , accessed on March 14, 2018