The Catalan News Agency, ACN, a public corporation owned by the Catalan government, is one of the first digital news agencies created in Europe and has been operating since 1999. It is a pioneer in the use of information technologies, teleworking and decentralised organisation applied to a virtual journalistic environment.

The ACN currently employs over 80 professionals and has branches in Madrid, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin and New York. Furthermore, it shares information with other state-owned agencies and is a member of ANSAmed, the group of Mediterranean agencies. The ACN offers its informative contents in text, photographic, video and audio formats to over 250 different subscribers, such as television channels, radio channels, the press, the digital press, institutions and businesses.