# Walta

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{{short description|Ethiopian media conglomerate}}
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| country           = [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia)
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| area              = [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia)
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| headquarters      = [Addis Ababa](/source/Addis_Ababa), Ethiopia
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'''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](/source/media_conglomerate) owned and operated by the [Ethiopian government](/source/Government_of_Ethiopia).<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](/source/Addis_Ababa), was founded in 1994 and supplies the [Ethiopian News Agency](/source/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](/source/Government_of_Ethiopia) 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](/source/Prosperity_Party).<ref name="Ethnification_ET_media" />

==Contents==
As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in [English](/source/english_language), [Amharic](/source/Amharic) and [Arabic](/source/Arabic) with local, national, and international news and a TV station, [Walta TV](/source/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== 
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<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

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