BelaPAN

The Belarusian Private News Agency or shortly BelaPAN (Belarusian: БелаПАН) is an independent Belarusian news agency and one of the main Belarusian news agencies along with the state-controlled BelTA.

BelaPAN
БелаПАН
IndustryNews agency
Founded19 November 1991
HeadquartersMinsk, Belarus
OwnerAles Lipay
Websitewww.belapan.com

The company was founded in 1991 by Ales Lipay and provides news on politics, economy and sports from Belarus in Russian, Belarusian and English. The company also runs projects related to advertising, elections monitoring and others.

BelaPAN owns the on-line newspaper Belorusskiye novosti.

BelaPAN has received several journalistic awards, including the Dzmitry Zavadski Prize "For Courage and Professionalism" (2004), the Zeit Foundation's Young Press of Eastern Europe annual award (2005), and the Runet Prize as the best online Russian language source of news outside Russia (2006).[1]

Criticism

In December 2017, BelaPAN and Belorusskiye novosti have been mentioned among several other Belarusian independent media that had allegedly removed old news stories about the 2015 arrest and ten months long imprisonment of the businessman Viktor Prokopenya from their websites. This was allegedly done after the media were approached by Prokopenya's public relations advisors. The situation has caused a wide discussion among Belarusian journalists and media professionals.[2][3][4][5]

References
  1. "About us / Recognition". BelaPAN official website. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  2. "«Пракапеня – герой, які ўскрыў гнайнік». Медыяаналітык распавёў, як заўважыў знікненне матэрыялаў у СМІ пра бізнесоўца ["Prakapenya is a hero who cut an abscess open". Media analyst tells how he discovered the disappearance of media articles about the businessman]" (in Belarusian). Belsat. 27 December 2017.
  3. Пілецкі, Алесь (27 December 2017). "«Ніхто нічога страшнага не зрабіў». Рэдактары незалежных СМІ пра выдаленьне матэрыялаў пра Віктара Пракапеню ["Nobody did anything terrible". Editors of independent media about removing articles about Viktar Prakapenya]" (in Belarusian). Radio Svaboda.
  4. "#Прокопенягейт: Социальные сети гудят, независимые медиа говорят "ничего страшного не случилось" [#Prokopenyagate: social networks buzz, independent media say "nothing terrible happened"]". Mediakritika.by (in Russian). 27 December 2017.
  5. Жерносек, Ольга (27 December 2017). "Цензура Прокопени. Кто и почему скрывает от нас правду? [Prokopenya's Censorship: who and why is hiding the truth from us?]" (in Russian). Belsat.
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