Background:



The Agencia Nueva Nicaragua (ANN) is the only Nicaraguan news agency whose primary function is to provide information to other countries, but ANN information is also used by many Nicaraguan media. It was founded on October 19, 1979, three months after the Sandinista victory, by a group of young Nicaraguan journalists who had participated in the struggle to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship, and saw the urgent need to internationally disseminate alternative information on Nicaragua and Central America. ANN is now a non-profit, legally incorporated, nongovernmental agency whose funding comes from both private and governmental sources.



Objectives:



Through its membership in the pool of Non-Aligned News Agencies and the National Information Systems Action (ASIN), it supports efforts to create a new international information order.