This article is about the Malaysian news agency. For its namesake radio station, see Bernama Radio. For its namesake news channel, see Bernama TV.
Malaysian National News Agency Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia
Company type
Statutory corporation
Industry
News media
Founded
20 May 1968; 55 years ago (1968-05-20)
Headquarters
Wisma Bernama, Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai (Chairman)
Nur-ul Afida Kamaludin (Chief Executive Officer)
Arul Rajoo Durar Raj (Editor-in-Chief)
Ahmad Fuad Yahya (Deputy Editor-in-Chief Domestic News Service)
Khairdzir Md Yunus (Deputy Editor-in-Chief Business and Finance News Service)
Jamaluddin Muhammad (Deputy Editor-in-Chief International News Service)
Products
Wire service
Owner
Government of Malaysia
Number of employees
700 (2022)
Parent
Ministry of Communications and Digital Malaysia
Website
www.bernama.com
The Malaysian National News Agency (Malay: Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia), is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Communications and Digital. Headquartered at the Wisma Bernama, off Jalan Tun Razak near National Library, Kuala Lumpur, it was created by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and began operating on 20 May 1968.
Its key role is to provide and supplying real-time comprehensive and credible news and accurate information for its clients, both public and media practitioners. Bernama's role as a news organization is well known among the local and international media, despite the ever-changing political and media freedom landscape in recent years. Most of the news media in Malaysia and Singapore and international news agencies subscribe to Bernama.[1]
Apart from providing services to its clients using wires, Bernama also provides news broadcasts through its own namesake radio and television channel, which operated 24 hours a day as well as its social media platforms. It also publishes news contents in Chinese, Indian, Spanish and Arabic besides of news published in Malay and English. Bernama (usually stylized in all caps) is an abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia (Malaysia National News); it also means named or titled in the Malay language.[2]
^"ULANG TAHUN KE-55, BERNAMA TERUS JADI PEMBEKAL UTAMA MAKLUMAT". Bernama. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
^"BERNAMA, news source for media in South-East Asia". Mehr News Agency. 11 November 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
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