Dea

Target: media (newspapers, press agencies, magazines, TV, radio), national and local authorities, study and research centres (universities, schools, academies, institutes etc.).
Content: politics, economics, news, sports and entertainment from Italy and the world.
Updated: news transmitted by ANSA is available on the DEA news archive, updated to the previous day.
Format: text.

Reception: via Internet.

Access methods: MNB, MIDA.

DEA – which stands for “ "ANSA's Electronic Documentation" - is an archive containing all the news transmitted by the agency from 1981 to the previous day (over 10 million news items).
DEA's reports are organized into 44 thematic archives and grouped into macro-categories:  General News, Regional News (one for each region), Specialist News, Editorial Services. 
The stories are marked with text fields, title, date, place and the event category. They can be searched for using these four categories or keywords.