Jordan News Agency: Difference between revisions

Petra was established in 1969, as an independent body linked to the ministry of information.<ref>{{cite web|title=Country profile - Jordan|url=http://www.journalismnetwork.eu/index.php/_en/country_profiles/jordan/|publisher=Journalism Network|accessdate=13 August 2014}}</ref> It became an independent entity in June 2004, following the dissolvement of the ministry of information. A special ordinance was enacted to give PETRA financial and administrative independence and to specify the powers of the Agencyagency's Boardboard and those of the Directordirector Generalgeneral. The new ordinance grants the agency the right to sell some of its services to willing subscribers. The ordinance defines services that could be sold as: