While Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak makes his debut at the on-going Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Egypt, Malaysia can take pride that it is home to a practical, NAM-related working entity – the NAM News Network (NNN).
It is more gratifying for Bernama as the NNN Secretariat is located on the 15th floor of Wisma Bernama since its inception in 2006.
The Secretariat is administered by a director who supervises an eight-member editorial team working 12 hours daily, seven days a week.
With its tagline "The NNN is about NAM, by NAM, for NAM and the world", NNN transmits more than 100 news items a day covering Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America & Carribbean and Europe.
Besides English, the news items are sent out in Spanish.
It was great to see my former news editor Musa Scully, 67, back at Wisma Bernama as subs-editor with NNN.
“I still go to the gym, play tennis and go dancing,” he quipped.
As a newsman, Musa was much-respected and taught us -- cadet reporters in the early 1980’s – the journalism trade.
"Stick to the 5Ws and 1H," he said.
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