Morocco’s News Agency (MAP) is now a genuine public information hub, which deploys an array of professional resources to provide the public information service with all its social responsibility and editorial strength, the Agency’s Managing Director, Khalil Hachimi Idrissi underlined.
Beyond its function as a news agency, which is the core business of the hub — texts, photos, images, sounds, graphics — MAP is present on all niches of information, on all periodicities and all vectors, as part of its strategic plan, Hachimi Idrissi wrote in an editorial titled “A Public Information Hub Is Born.”
The agency offers 24/7 news radio station and TV (RIM and M24), two daily newspapers in French and Arabic (“Maroc Le Jour” and “Al Yaoum Al Maghribi”), two monthly magazines (“BAB”), as well as twenty news websites and twelve regional ones, he underscored in the editorial published on the agency’s website “www.map.ma.”
MAP publishes every year the “Album de la MAP,” “Nouvelles du Maroc” and “Maroc Factuel” in four languages, in addition to other publications, reads the leading article.
Given the density and diversity of the MAP products, and in the wake of the implementation of the agency’s new organic law, one can only notice that the public information hub is an asset in a time when the media sector, in general, is undergoing difficult changes and facing decisive challenges, Hachimi Idrissi went on.
Never before has there been a public information service so present, so diversified and so relevant in its interventions, he added.
According to Hachimi Idrissi, this is all due to the quality of MAP’s strategic vision, the commitment of its senior managers, the cutting-edge skills it deploys, and the general mobilization of its rigorous and professional staff.
The Agency’s Managing director also underscored that the media and information sectors are experiencing a global turmoil that affects its ethics, information production, business model, target definition, identification of partners, training of staff, and so on. “The challenges are numerous, and the solutions are rare or painful,” he said.
In this difficult context, Morocco’s public information hub is a stable base around which restructuring can be carried out, projects can be developed, reforms can be undertaken, and upgrades can be planned, Hachimi Idrissi concluded.
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