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BELGA PRESSAGENDA: ALL THE PRESS ACTIVITIES IN BELGIUM

How to get an overview of all press activities in Belgium?
When should you organise an event to maximise journalists’ attendance?
How to inform the media about your event?

Belga PressAgenda, an initiative of the Belga News Agency, centralises all the press activities in Belgium: press conferences, openings, financial results announcements, product launches, seminars, colloquiums, workshops, demonstrations, trade shows, exhibitions, conferences, etc.
Consulting the Belga PressAgenda is the perfect solution for building your own agenda or planning as well as organising events such as press conferences.

Belga PressAgenda can be used in two different ways. First, you can consult the agenda to organise a press event or editorial planning (paid service). As well, you can input your own events into the agenda (free via mail to [email protected] of paid -garanteed publication- via PRpro).

Belga PressAgenda offers you online:

-    A current and comprehensive overview of press events in Belgium: general, economics, politics, legal, culture, sports, etc.
-    A user-friendly search interface with various selection criteria to be able to find everything easily.
-   The possibility of creating personalised profiles as regards specific sectors, types of events or geographical locations.
-   A simple, free work tool to place your event online on the Belga PressAgenda and make it known to the press.

Why consult Belga PressAgenda?

If you are a PR agency, business, government, etc. and organise press events:

Planning and organising an event is not easy.
    What day?
    What time?
    What location?
These questions are important, since in many cases, the timing of a press conference largely determines its success.
If you regularly organise a press conference or another press gathering, you know how important perfect timing is. There is nothing less pleasant than empty chairs because another important press gathering is taking place at the same time. To avoid this, Belga offers you the solution: Belga PressAgenda, the agenda that centralises all major press events.

As news media (general, regional of sectoral) of as a freelance journalist:

You can establish your own editorial programme, plan the work of your journalists or photographers or simply get some ideas for you next report. Belga PressAgenda is an essential work tool to help you achieve this. Thanks to extensive search criteria, it lets you get an overview per sector of activity or even per region. And thanks to the 'My alerts' solution, you will be sure not to miss any event that meets your interest criteria, as you will receive them per e-mail.

If you are a professional organisation or work group, federation, etc.:

Do you want to follow closely all the press events that are happening in your sector?
Do you want to fill up your sector agenda for your next newsletter or website?
Belga PressAgenda lets you follow all the press activities that directly or indirectly affect your sector or members.

Why would you want to input an event into Belga PressAgenda?

When you organise a press event, you will attract a maximum number of journalists to get a maximum amount visibility in the press. Placing your event on Belga PressAgenda is entirely free and user-friendly. This way your event will get extra visibility with the agenda’s users: first, the media and journalists, but also other organisers of press events in general. If you would like to send out a press release or press invitation to the entire Belgian press through the network of the Belga press agency, Belga also offers you the PRpro service. (See the website www.PRpro.be)

Who uses Belga PressAgenda?

The media: General and specialised media, freelance journalists, etc.
Organisers of press events: PR agencies, businesses, governments, political parties, federations, interest groups, etc.