Editing Bernama (section)

{{short description|News agency of the government of Malaysia}}
{{About|the Malaysian news agency|its namesake radio station|Bernama Radio|its namesake news channel|Bernama TV}}
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{{Infobox company
| name         = Malaysian National News Agency<br/>{{nobold|''Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia''}}
| logo         = Bernama logo.png
| logo_size    = 200px
| type         = [[Statutory corporation]]
| area_served  = Worldwide
| industry     = [[News media]]
| location     = Wisma Bernama, Jalan Tun Razak, [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia
| key_people   = {{plainlist|
* Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai<br/>({{small|Chairman}})
* Nur-ul Afida Kamaludin<br/>({{small|Chief Executive Officer}})
* Arul Rajoo Durar Raj<br/>({{small|Editor-in-Chief}})
* Ahmad Fuad Yahya<br/>({{small|Deputy Editor-in-Chief Domestic News Service}})
* Khairdzir Md Yunus<br/>({{small|Deputy Editor-in-Chief Business and Finance News Service}})
* Jamaluddin Muhammad<br/>({{small|Deputy Editor-in-Chief International News Service}})
}}
| founded      = {{Start date and age|1967|4|6|df=y}}
| products     = [[News agency|Wire service]]
| owner        = [[Government of Malaysia]] 
| parent       = [[Ministry of Communications (Malaysia)|Ministry of Communications Malaysia]]
| num_employees = 700 (2022)
| website      = {{URL|https://www.bernama.com/}}
}}

The '''Malaysian National News Agency''' ({{langx|ms|Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia}}), is a [[news agency]] of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body under the [[Ministry of Communications (Malaysia)|Ministry of Communications]]. Headquartered at the Wisma Bernama, off [[Jalan Tun Razak]] near [[National Library of Malaysia|National Library]], [[Kuala Lumpur]], it was created by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and began operating on 20 May 1968.

Its key role is to provide and supplying real-time comprehensive and credible news and accurate information for its clients, both public and media practitioners. Bernama's role as a news organization is well known among the local and international media, despite the ever-changing political and media freedom landscape in recent years. Most of the news media in Malaysia and Singapore and international news agencies subscribe to Bernama.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bernama.com/bm/news.php?id=2082708|title=ULANG TAHUN KE-55, BERNAMA TERUS JADI PEMBEKAL UTAMA MAKLUMAT|publisher=Bernama|date=19 May 2022|access-date=5 March 2023|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519122607/https://www.bernama.com/bm/news.php?id=2082708|url-status=live}}</ref>

Apart from providing services to its clients using [[wire service|wires]], Bernama also provides news broadcasts through its own namesake [[Bernama Radio|radio]] and [[Bernama TV|television channel]], which operated 24 hours a day as well as its social media platforms. It also publishes news contents in Chinese, Tamil, Spanish and Arabic besides of news published in Malay and English. '''Bernama''' (usually stylized in all caps) is an abbreviation of '''Ber'''ita '''Na'''sional '''Ma'''laysia (''Malaysia National News''); it also means ''named'' or ''titled'' in the Malay language.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://en.mehrnews.com/news/36870/BERNAMA-news-source-for-media-in-South-East-Asia|title=BERNAMA, news source for media in South-East Asia|publisher=[[Mehr News Agency]]|date=11 November 2009|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-date=7 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107025110/https://en.mehrnews.com/news/36870/BERNAMA-news-source-for-media-in-South-East-Asia|url-status=live}}</ref>