DILI, 27 july 2022 (TATOLI)—Secretary General of the FRETILIN Party, Marí Alkatiri urged Timor-Leste News Agency to bring information closer to the people and communities.
He said Timor-Leste News Agency is considered a historic news agency which was formerly known as East Timor News Agency (ETNA) during the resistance period: “Now, it’s known as TATOLI which plays a crucial role in the nation and state building and the national development.”
“I always accompany the news stories of TATOLI. Even though it’s still a long way to go but it has shown positive stuff. My congratulations to TATOLI on its sixth anniversary and all of its staff members. TATOLI needs to be the voice for the voiceless. So, you need to present the difficult situation facing the people and the communities’ messages to the government,” Alkatiri said at his office, in Dili, on Wednesday (27/07).
He said to build a strong State, it is important to consider the voice of the people and their participation in national development.
He called on journalists from TATOLI to keep learning and improving their knowledge and skills to produce good news stories.
“In terms of the content of the news stories, I think you have made some positive improvements. So, keep up the good work to develop this News Agency in the future,” he concluded.
Timor-Leste News Agency or TATOLI always strives to provide fair, accurate, and reliable information to national, regional, and international audiences.
TATOLI is a national news agency delivering news across the country and the world in four different languages; Tetum, Portuguese, English, and Indonesian.
TATOLI was established following the decision of the Council of Ministers (CoM) on February 3, 2016, which was published in the Official Gazette of the President of the Republic march 16, 2016.
It was officially launched by former Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo, on june 27, 2016.
On march 7, 2017, the Council of Ministers approved the creation of TATOLI – Timor-Leste News Agency (in Portuguese: “TATOLI – Agência Noticiosa de Timor-Leste, IP”). The decision came following the creation of a news portal, then called ANTIL, in march of 2016. The main objective of TATOLI is to be the source of official information, with the production of information for national, regional, and international audiences. With a multichannel, multimedia, multiplatform and multitasking character, the News Agency may evolve and serve as a center for the production of cinema and State documentation, as a public opinion institute, as a forum for public information, as a center for the management of archives and State documentation, and as a center for communication applied training and research.
Journalist: Nelson de Sousa
Editor: Cancio Ximenes/Nelia Borges
Translation: Filomeno Martins
