Julie Leplus appointed AFP Head of Sales France

Julie Leplus, who takes up her role on July 19, has over 15 years' experience in content sales, tech and the mobile industry. Her mission will be to continu...

AFP Extends Digital Verification Into Finnish And Greek

AFP extended this month its european fact-checking network into Greece, Cyprus and Finland, consolidating its position as the world's leading agency in digi...

David Millikin appointed North America Sales and Marketing Director

David Millikin, AFP's Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific bureau chief since 2017, has been appointed as Sales and Marketing Director for North America...

AFP wins three european projects to fight disinformation

The hubs - CEDMO in France; DE FACTO in Eastern Europe; and EDMO BELUX in the Benelux - will for the first time bring together fact-checking media, university a...

AFP launches MediaConnect, a subsidiary serving PR professionals and journalists

Through this platform, which will also be available for mobile, journalists will be able to freely access a wide range of content: press releases, photos, audio...

Afghanistan: Aref Karimi and Mohammad Ismail named winners of the third edition of the Marai Photo Award

Aref Karimi, a photojournalist originally from Herat in west Afghanistan, has be...

Afghanistan: Aref Karimi and Mohammad Ismail named winners of the third edition of the Photo Marai Award

Aref Karimi, a photojournalist originally from Herat in west Afghanistan, has be...

AFP posts slight growth in commercial revenues in 2020, achieves historic net income

Despite the pandemic, AFP's commercial revenues rose to 166.4 million euros,...

Anne Boussarie named General Manager of MediaConnect, a new AFP subsidiary

Previously at Getty Images, a world leader in visual content distribution, Anne Boussarie spent over 15 years in management positions, which notably saw her tak...

AFP consolidates its position as a world leader in fact-checking by extending its Central Europe network

This growth underscores our commitment to efforts to combat the spread of disinf...

AFP continues to expand its range of products with Sur le fil, its first daily news podcast

Starting March 30th, AFP will be broadcasting the Sur le fil podcast: a three-to...

Sarah Stewart named Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Director

Sarah Stewart, AFP's Dubai and Gulf bureau chief since 2019, succeeds Marc Lavine in this position, who has been appointed director for the North American r...

Changes to the Executive committee at AFP

Maria Lorente, who has been the Buenos Aires bureau chief since 2019, will replace Pierre Ausseill as regional director for the Latin America region. Pierre Aus...

AFP calls for the release of a translator working for its journalists in Ethiopia

Fitsum Berhane was arrested at his home on Friday night by uniformed men in the ...

The 2021 edition of the Marai Photo Award launches next month in Afghanistan, a country where journalists continue to pay a heavy price simply for doing their job

Agence France-Presse and Getty Images renew leading global content partnership

Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), a prominent global news agency, today announced they would extend their l...

AFP offers exclusive coverage of the conflict in Tigray

A multimedia team of text, photo and video journalists produced exclusive witness reports from the terrified inhabitants of the city of Humera that came under a...

AFP takes star billing at the Hong Kong French Film Festival

The 49th edition of the festival, organized by the Alliance Fran aise, runs from 25 November to 15 December and features 40 films that will be screened online a...

AFP publishes Focus, a special 2020 edition on the Covid-19 pandemic

Text in English/French Released 19th November 2020 ditions La D couverte 200 pages - 29,90 The story begins on January 30, 2020 with a striking AFP photo...

AFP-Services becomes FACTSTORY

This is a necessary step to solidify the identity and the position of the operation, which has evolved since its creation. It is also important for us to differ...

AFP joins Inter American Press Association board of directors

The Inter American Press Association (in French, l'Association de la presse interam ricaine; in Spanish, Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa, SIP) is a non-go...

AFP special envoys tell the human story of the Nagorno-Karabakh war

1 / 12 2 / 12 3 / 12 4 / 12 5 / 12 6 / 12 7 / 12 8 / 12 9 / 12 10 / 12 11 / 12 12 / 12 A testament to the quality of the coverage, the Agency's ...

AFP photographer Anthony Wallace wins at 2020 Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Awards for War Correspondents

Anthony Wallace is doubly rewarded for his work featuring the pro-democracy prot...

The Court of Justice confirms Google is obliged to negotiate neighbouring rights remuneration with press agencies

The Court of Appeals clearly rejects Googles argument that traffic generated on ...

AFP photos of popular uprisings from Chile to Hong Kong displayed at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy awards for War Correspondents 2020

AFP's exhibition: protest movements around the world In 25 large-format phot...

AFP enters partnership with TikTok on fact-checking in Asia-Pacific

TikTok's new fact-checking programme will draw on AFP's editorial and fact-checking expertise in reviewing and verifying potentially false or misleading...

AFP consolidates its place as global fact check leader with new German service

As part of an expanded partnership with Facebook, German becomes the 16th language in which AFP compiles fact check articles and publishes them on the multiling...

AFP is expanding its fact-check service to Myanmar

AFP has the largest network in the world of expert journalists in charge of digital investigations. AFP's fact-check service is covering 36 countries. In As...

AFP contributor Nabil Hasan al-Quaety killed in Yemen

The 34-year-old videojournalist and photographer, who also worked for other major news organisations, was shot in his car by as-yet-unknown assailants shortly a...

The second edition of the Shah Marai Award, launched by AFP, is won by Naim Nadir

Photographer Naim Nadir, from Kabul, has won the second edition of the Shah Mara...

AFP's 2019 operating result shows strong growth as the Agency assesses the early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

After the Agency achieved growth in 2018 for the first time in 4 years, AFP'...

COVID-19: AFP launches media literacy initiative in France with Facebook

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, AFP has been on the frontline in covering this unprecedented crisis and also to fight the tidal wave of harmful di...

COVID-19: AFP lanches media literacy initiative in France with Facebook

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, AFP has been on the frontline in covering this unprecedented crisis and also to fight the tidal wave of harmful di...

AFP Yasuyoshi Chiba World Press Photo of the Year

Yasuyoshi Chiba's Straight Voice , voted best photo of the year by the World Press Photo jury, shows a man illuminated by the light of mobile phones, recit...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...