October 8 (BTA) - The newly established award for
quality agency journalism of the European Alliance of News
Agencies (EANA) was conferred on Friday to DPA's deputy
editor-in-chief and head of news Antje Homburger (second from right on photo).

Homburger received the award for DPA's Infokanal project.

The award in the name of Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director
General Maxim Minchev, who died in 2020, was conferred by the
interim head of the Bulgarian Embassy in Vienna Albena Getova.

News agencies AFP (France), ANSA (Italy), dpa (Germany) and TASS
 (Russia) submitted applications for the EANA Maxim Minchev Award.

Addressing EANA's General Assembly, BTA Director General Kiril
Valchev said: "It is an honor for Bulgaria to have EANA award
after the name of a Bulgarian like Maxim Minchev. As his friend
I would have preferred this award to have taken his name many
years from now, but unfortunately this is not the case."

"Maxim Minchev, who was also an avid traveler, said that
traveling the world is an opportunity to compare. News agencies
give people from all over the world the opportunity to compare.
Knowing each other is not only an opportunity for profiting by
using each other's good practices, but also a guarantee of
peace," he added.

Valchev recalled that two years ago Minchev organized the world
congress of news agencies on the future of news in Sofia."And he
 left us the legacy to find the best future for the news through
 the news agencies. We must continue the battle of true news
against fake news." RY/PP