Africa News Service (ANS) was founded in 1973 as a non-profit U.S. news agency. It is a leading information source on Africa in the United States, working in partnership with African news agencies and periodicals to make available current and background materials on all aspects of African life, politics, and culture. Through its efforts, coverage of...
Africa News Service (ANS) was founded in 1973 as a non-profit U.S. news agency. It is a leading information source on Africa in the United States, working in partnership with African news agencies and periodicals to make available current and background materials on all aspects of African life, politics, and culture. Through its efforts, coverage of Africa has been more frequent, more substantive, and more accurate, filling a vital gap for policy makers, educators, journalists, diplomats, scientists, religious groups, development analysts, and business and labor leaders. Widely known for its periodical Africa News, the award-winning ANS also prepares special articles and series for major newspapers and broadcast programs and provides behind-the-scenes consultation and briefing for news agencies and individual journalists. Keeping pace with innovative computer technologies, ANS shifted in 1993 from print to electronic publication by establishing Africa News Online. Through this on-line service, ANS engages in computerized news gathering and distribution and e-mail communications with reporters in Africa. Located in Durham, N.C., ANS was led by a trio of Duke University graduates: Executive Director Bertie Howard, Executive Editor Tamela Hultman, and President and Managing Editor Reed Kramer. All three have a history of support for African liberation struggles, and much of ANS coverage related to that struggle and the international solidarity movement. In 1999, AllAfrica Global Media was formed as the successor to ANS, and was based in Washington, D.C. The AllAfrica website includes the archive of Africa News Online articles dating from 1997. (Source:
Preliminary Inventory of the Africa News Service on the Duke University Libraries website and All Africa website.)
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