{{short description|Ethiopian media conglomerate}} {{other uses}} {{Infobox television channel | name = Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. | logo = | logo_size = 280px | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | launch_date = {{start date and age|1994}} | closed_date = | network = | owner = Ethiopian government | picture_format = | country = Ethiopia | language = {{plainlist| * English * Amharic * Arabic }} | area = Ethiopia | affiliates = | headquarters = Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | former_names = | replaced = | replaced_by = | sister_channels = Walta TV | timeshift_service = | website = https://waltainfo.com | terr_serv_1 = | terr_chan_1 = | sat_serv_1 = | sat_chan_1 = | cable_serv_1 = | cable_chan_1 = | satradio_serv_1 = | sat_radio_chan_1 = | iptv_serv_1 = | iptv_chan_1 = | online_serv_1 = | online_chan_1 = | established = | airdate = | parent = | motto = | key_people = | online avail = }} '''Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C.''' or '''Walta''', previously called '''Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C.''', or '''Walta Information Center''', is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate owned and operated by the Ethiopian government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/pdf/AMDI/ethiopia/amdi_ethiopia7_newspapers.pdf|title=African Media Development Initiative – Ethiopia Newspapers|date=2006|access-date=2018-04-11}}</ref> Walta, located in Addis Ababa, was founded in 1994 and supplies the Ethiopian News Agency and other media with local and national news.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/organizations/walta-information-center/</ref>
==History== Walta has been affiliated with the Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reta|first1=Meseret|title=One Hundred Years of History of the Media in Ethiopia|date=1992|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-6001-3}}</ref> {{As of|2020}}, Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the Prosperity Party.<ref name="Ethnification_ET_media" />
==Contents== As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic with local, national, and international news and a TV station, Walta TV, broadcasting mainly social and political news in Amharic over satellite.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://onlineethiopia.net/2017/04/wic-officially-launched-walta-television/|title=Walta Information Center Officially Launched Walta Television|date=2017-04-08|access-date=2018-04-11}}</ref>
==Objectives== According to Walta, it gathers, organizes, analyzes and disseminates news and provides "image building and public relation support activities".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waltainfo.com/walta/info|title=Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C.|access-date=2018-04-11}}</ref>
==References== <references>
<ref name="Ethnification_ET_media">{{cite web | last1= Skjerdal | first1= Terje | last2= Moges | first2= Mulatu Alemayehu | title= The ethnification of the Ethiopian media | date= 2020-11-26 | website=Fojo Media Institute, International Media Support | url= https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-and-Ethnicity-Ethiopia.pdf |access-date=2020-12-24 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201224085041/https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-and-Ethnicity-Ethiopia.pdf |archive-date= 2020-12-24 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.waltainfo.com/ Walta website] (English and Amharic)
Category:Mass media in Ethiopia Category:Mass media in Addis Ababa