Philippe Ziade (journalist)
Philippe Ziade (1909 in Ghosta, Mount Lebanon - June 2005) was a pioneer Lebanese journalist.[1]
Life[]
Ziade attended the 'Ain Warqa school; he was one of the first journalists in French-mandated Greater Lebanon.[2] He founded the 'National News Agency' or NNA (الوكالة الوطنية للانباء), the first national news agency in Lebanon in the 1920s and contributed for more than half a century to more than 30 daily newspapers in the Lebanese press among which An-Nahar, Le Jour, L'Orient, Le Soir, Al-Hayat, and As-Siyassah.[citation needed] Ziade's office was in the Grand Serail, the current headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon.[dubious ]
Awards[]
He is the recipient of numerous national decorations including the 1958 Honorary , bestowed to him by president Camille Chamoun. In 2003 he was awarded the medal of the and the , and upon his death in 2005 the National Order of the Cedar (Officer), bestowed by president Emile Lahoud).[citation needed]
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