BNO News

BNO News is an international news agency headquartered in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It provides news wire services to media organizations.

BNO News, B.V.

Company type	Besloten vennootschap
Industry	News agency
Founded	14 May 2007
Founder	Michael van Poppel
Headquarters	Tilburg, the Netherlands
Website	bnonews.com

Overview

BNO News was founded by Michael van Poppel of the Netherlands in May 2007. The company ran a popular Twitter-based news service called BreakingNews (initially called BreakingNewsOn) until December 1, 2009. It scooped regular news organizations on political news, natural disasters, and other breaking news and grew quickly in 2009, when it went from 16,000 to more than 1.5 million followers in less than 11 months, making it one of the most popular news services on Twitter.^[1][2] The service was maintained by journalists from the Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States.

On September 7, 2007, BNO News obtained an authentic videotape featuring Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which it licensed to the Reuters news agency.^[1][3][2] In February 2009, BNO News won the Best in News award at the 1st Shorty Awards in New York.^[4]

The Twitter account was acquired by NBC News on December 1, 2009, when the company announced plans to offer a subscription-based news wire service to other news outlets, primarily those in the United States.^[5][2] The subscription-based news wire service was launched in late January 2010 and provides news coverage to NBC News and other news organizations. A Mauritian-based news website, Island Crisis News, announced on May 31, 2010, that it had also become a client of BNO News and the company's first client from Africa.^[6]

BNO News re-established a social media presence in June 2015, when it launched a website featuring some of its content.^[7]

In 2020, BNO News provided live coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic on a Twitter account called BNO Newsroom.^[8][9] It also provided a coronavirus tracker, which was visited more than 71 million times, in the early months of the pandemic.^[10] In August 2020 the company also created a database for confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 reinfection,^[11][12][13] which was used by researchers and government officials, including the health ministries in Spain and Brazil.^[14][15][16]

Awards and recognition

Year	Organization	Nominated work	Award	Result
2009	Twitter Shorty Awards	@BreakingNews	News[17]	Won

See also

• 2007 Osama bin Laden video
• List of social networking websites

References

1. "@BreakingNewsOn: From Twitter Account To Public News Wire Service". TechCrunch. January 9, 2009. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
2. "MSNBC.com takes over Breaking News Twitter feed". BBC News. December 2009. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
3. "CNN's I-Report did not respond to Bin Laden video offer from web trawler". Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
4. "The 2008 Shorty Awards Winners and Finalists". The Shorty Awards. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019.
5. "BNO News launches news wire; Twitter account taken over by MSNBC.com". Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
6. "Island Crisis Updates May 2010". Island Crisis. Archived from the original on June 2, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
7. "About Us". Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
8. "The coronavirus situation is changing fast. Get alerts on your phone to stay informed". CNET. Archived from the original on May 8, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
9. "Stressful, but necessary: How to follow coronavirus news (while avoiding fake news) without going crazy". March 16, 2020. Archived from the original on November 23, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
10. "Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline". Archived from the original on February 17, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
11. "COVID-19 reinfection tracker". Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
12. "Can You Get Covid Twice? What Reinfection Cases Really Mean". Bloomberg. October 28, 2020. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
13. "4 pontos para entender a reinfecção por covid-19, agora confirmada no Brasil". BBC News Brasil. BBC News. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
14. "Un 20% de los enfermos de covid se pueden reinfectar a los tres meses". El Periódico de Catalunya. March 14, 2021. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
15. Primeiro caso de reinfecção pela covid-19 no Brasil ocorreu em julho de 2020, diz estudo www.gov.br/ebserh
16. NOTA TÉCNICA GVIMS/GGTES/ANVISA Nº 04/2020 Archived February 1, 2022, at the Wayback Machine www.gov.br/anvisa accessed 26 February 2022
17. "The Shorty Awards - news leaderboard". 1st.shortyawards.com. February 11, 2009. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

External links

• Official website
• BNO News on Telegram
• @BreakingNewsOn: From Twitter Account To Public News Wire Service