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20/02/2020
Kashmir reporter Ahmer Khan wins AFP Kate Webb Prize
Freelance reporter Ahmer Khan has won the 2019 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb prize for his coverage of the recent social and political upheaval in Indian Kashm...
05/02/2020
AFP takes a new step in the fight against misinformation by expanding its network in the United States.
As such, the Agency bolsters its fact-checking operations via an expanded partne...
24/12/2019
AFP and KBS forge new strategic partnership
A major achievement for the AFP video service, the new partnership with KBS is testament to the quality of the Agency's news production from its unparallele...
12/11/2019
AFP wins fourth Rory Peck video award
Our stringer was rewarded for his exceptional video coverage of the 2018-2019 Nicaraguan protests, featuring striking images of demonstrators' arrests and c...
08/10/2019
AFP represented on all fronts at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy awards for war correspondents 2019
3 may 2017 - Caracas - Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP (2018 World Press Photo Contest wi...
17/09/2019
Future of the Planet : A week of special coverage by AFP
AFP's special package is anchored to the September 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, and will cover the September 20 rallies and marches worldwide by young ...
10/09/2019
Visa d'or awarded to AFP photographer Guillermo Arias
Following his coverage in Central America, Guillermo Arias has won a host of prizes, including the top prize in the News category of POY Latin America 2019, and...
09/09/2019
AFP joins a new initiative to fight misinformation
As a media of reference in the fight against misinformation, AFP will be involved in the various aspects of the project including the creation of a warning syst...
30/08/2019
Two AFP exhibitions headlining Visa pour l'Image 2019
Guillermo Arias' exhibition The Caravan documents the journey of thousands of Central American migrants traveling in large groups on self-called caravans ...
01/08/2019
Italy's ANSA chooses AFP for global video, photo, text news
In a multi-year deal starting January 1, 2020, Italys leading news agency ANSA has agreed to buy AFP's global video, photo and text news services for distri...
27/06/2019
AFP's online interactive agenda goes live
AFP Agenda displays events selected by journalists across our global network. It contains practical information about listed events: dates, times, address and c...
24/06/2019
ARTE Journal picks AFP for its TV production in Germany
From the end of July, Agence France-Presse, through its German subsidiaries, will host ARTE Journals editorial office in Berlin. AFP will provide the Franco-Ge...
24/05/2019
AFP appoints photo journalist to top Mena
A former photo director for Latin America and then Europe-Africa, Sylvain Estibal is currently Mexico bureau chief. In this role, he coordinated coverage of the...
15/05/2019
Monsanto lists: AFP files a complaint, states full support of journalists involved
Agence France-Presse has filed a complaint to the French Data Protection Authori...
18/04/2019
First edition of the Shah Marai Award, launched by AFP, won by Farshad Usyan
This award, entitled My Afghanistan, was launched in honour of Shah Marai, chief photographer of Agence France-Presses Kabul bureau killed in a suicide attack o...
10/04/2019
AFP condemns the expulsion of its Algiers bureau chief
AFP chairman Fabrice Fries said: This arbitrary decision taken under the presidency of Mr Bouteflika is unacceptable, and it is out of the question for us, in ...
28/03/2019
The European Data Hub, co-founded by AFP, launches a new enriched version
Already available in five languages - English, German, French, Italian and Spanish - it will now also offer Hungarian and Romanian. In March, the Romanian news...
20/03/2019
AFP joins FactCheckEU, a new collaborative project to fight disinformation ahead of the european elections
FactCheckEu has been launched by the International Fact-Checking Network and is ...
12/03/2019
AFP extends its fact-checking operation to Spain and Argentina
The articles will be freely accessible on the Spanish blog AFP Factual that is dedicated to verifying and debunking disinformation spread online. Some of the f...
28/02/2019
AFP launches its new API, AFP Content API
The international news agency AFP, which has 201 bureaux in 151 countries, has launched its new API. AFP Content API simplifies access to AFP's real-time p...
21/02/2019
More Live broadcasts, more original reporting: 2019 is a landmark year for AFP video
Today, hundreds of active users from major international and national TV channel...
20/02/2019
AFP photographers chosen as finalists in the 2019 World Press Photo awards
Brendan Smialowski was nominated in the General News - Singles category for an image of President Emmanuel Macron being taken by the hand by President Donald ...
19/02/2019
Statement from AFP management regarding reports in the Algerian media about the status of the AFP Algiers bureau chief
Regarding reports in the Algerian media about the status of the AFP Algiers bure...
12/02/2019
AFP is starting a new chapter in the german market for sports news
Rainer Finke, up to now director of international marketing and sales at German news agency DPA, will take on the role of SIDs managing director based in Cologn...
12/02/2019
France's TF1 features new segment on AFP fact-checking
Every Saturday on the evening newscast, a TF1 journalist will analyse how a piece of false information has been spread and explain how fact-checking techniques ...
06/02/2019
AFP expands its global fact-checking operations to the Middle East and North Africa through new contract with Facebook
The articles produced in this new collaboration with Facebook will be publicly a...
30/01/2019
AFP and Red Bull Media House enter a new partnership for the provision of sporting event photos and videos
Starting January 29, 2019, AFP, the world's leading source of sports informa...
23/01/2019
Sophie Huet appointed Global Editor-in-Chief of AFP. Jean-Luc Bardet replaces her as Deputy Global News Director
A journalist for 34 years and a graduate of the Marseille School of Journalism, ...
23/01/2019
My Afghanistan : a photo contest in honour of Shah Marai
Throughout his career, Shah Marai showed the reality of life in Afghanistan with passion and tenderness. During 17 years of conflict, his photos captured moment...
14/01/2019
Pakistan reporter Asad Hashim wins Kate Webb Prize
The prize, with a 3,000 euro purse, honours journalists working in perilous or difficult conditions in Asia, and is named after a crusading AFP reporter who die...
12/11/2018
Patrice Monti appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for AFP
Patrice Monti, 52, joined the AFP in January 2018 as Deputy Director of Sales and Marketing. Prior to the AFP, he held the position of Vice President in charge...
14/10/2018
AFP awarded at Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondents Prize
Mahmud Hams has been singled out for his work on the protest movement known as the Great March of Return since March 2018 involving thousands of Palestinians ...
21/09/2018
The European Data News Hub is celebrating its first anniversary
Brexit, exodus and asylum, trade wars, digitalization, terror or EU-expansion - these are just a few of the topics confronting Europe over the last 12 months. ...
31/08/2018
AFP's Africa coverage showcased at Visa pour l'image 2018
John Wessels's exhibition at the H tel Pams, Trapped in DRC', presents his coverage of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which for decades has been pla...
28/06/2018
Dalila Zein appointed Managing Director of AFP
A graduate of EDHEC Business School, Zein, 42, began her career as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2000 she joined Lagard re Active (print media, radio...
28/06/2018
AFP extends Facebook fact-checking collaboration to three more countries
The blogs, in English, Spanish and Portuguese are based on the current French-language Factuel, a site dedicated to verifying and debunking false information sp...
04/06/2018
AFP announces 2018 Fifa World Cup deployment
AFP will produce close to 2,000 broadcast and web videos in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. The videos will feature the teams, the cities and t...
24/05/2018
AFP adds more countries to its fact-checking collaboration with Facebook
The sites in English, Spanish and Portuguese will be based on the current Factuel (factuel.afp.com), a site dedicated to verifying and debunking fake news and d...
30/04/2018
AFP Kabul Chief Photographer Shah Marai killed in a double suicide attack in Kabul
Shah Marai had worked for AFP since 1996, when he started as a driver and fixer....
16/04/2018
AFP approves its accounts for 2017
The Agency's operating revenue reached 295.6M in 2017. In a context of domestic and still very tough global media markets, commercial revenues resisted wel...
12/04/2018
Fabrice Fries named Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Agence France-Presse
The AFP Board of Directors, meeting on Thursday April 12, has chosen Fabrice Fries to be the next chairman and chief executive officer of Agence France-Presse, ...
12/04/2018
AFP photographer Ronaldo Schemidt wins the World Press Photo of the Year
Ronaldo Schemidt's image of a Venezuelan protester turned into a human torch during clashes with riot police was voted Photo of the Year by the jury of the ...
04/04/2018
AFP joins RSF initiative to combat disinformation and to distinguish trustworthy media
The Journalism Trust Initiative was unveiled today at a joint press conference b...
29/03/2018
2018, a year of conquest through innovation: AFPTV live select for tv networks and digital media
With AFPTV Live Select and the launch of afptvlive.com, AFPs video offering is o...
28/03/2018
2017, an outstanding year for AFP video
With 50% more live video streams transmitted than in 2016 and the expansion of the global network of Video Reporters, AFP video revenues continued to deliver do...
22/03/2018
AFP uses independent crowd counting for accurate reporting on demonstrations
Research and consulting firm Occurrence uses two elevated sensors to trace a virtual line that counts each demonstrator on the ground. Manual spot counts reinfo...
05/03/2018
Jrme Jaroussie appointed AFP Chief Information Officer
After training as an engineer at EISTI (the International School of Information Processing Sciences), he spent his entire career, in France and abroad, working ...
23/02/2018
AFP receives six awards at Pictures of the Year International
Kirill Kudryavtsev won 2nd place in the Sports Action category for a picture taken during the Russia vs New Zealand football match at the 2017 Confederations Cu...
14/02/2018
AFP rewarded at World Press Photo 2018
Ronaldo Schemidts shot of a protester on fire during clashes with police in Venezuela was selected by the jury as one of the six best photos of the year. He was...
31/01/2018
AFP approves the 2018 budget and boosts its means for fighting fake news
At a meeting of the AFP board of directors on 31 january 2018, Agency's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Hoog presented a draft 2018 budget tha...
