The Minister of Culture and Information, Iyad Bin Ameen Madani, met here today with the heads of the Saudi Press Agency's (SPA) offices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad, in the presence of the SPA's Acting Director General Abdulaziz Bin Saad Al-Ghamdi.
Madani toured the SPA's news, technical and administrative departments including local desk, foreign desk, the English and French services, translation, information center, computer department, photographic section, maintenance, monitoring section, and photographic labs.
During the meeting, he discussed means of developing the work of different departments and the abilities of its staff.
He reviewed with the SPA's personnel the obstacles in their press work and focused on the vocational training and the need for qualified employees to deal with modern technologies which are the main feature of successful news agencies all over the world.
