AFP wins fourth Rory Peck video award
Luis Sequeira, an AFP video stringer from Nicaragua, wins the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the best work by freelance photo and video journalists.
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Luis Sequeira, an AFP video stringer from Nicaragua, wins the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the best work by freelance photo and video journalists.
AFP photographer Mohammed Al-Shaikh and the BBC's Lyse Doucet were among the winners at the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents announced on Saturday in Bayeux, northwestern France. Three of the seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, where a devastating civil war has raged for the past three and a half years.
Multimedia journalist Patricia Evangelista received the 2014 Kate Webb Prize from Agence France-Presse on Friday for her compelling reporting on conflict and disaster in her native Philippines.
The AFP Foundation, the non-profit media training arm of the AFP news agency, will unveil – at a meeting of senior figures from the African media industry in Nairobi on the evening of Friday 14 November – the names of the winner and two runners up the first ever African Fact-Checking Awards.
The Best Portfolio category First Place – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse http://www.photojournalism.org/contest/winners/2014/best-portfolio/ News Picture Story First Place – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse Honorable Mention – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse
The Football (Soccer) Data Cube, a responsive html application covering football (soccer) competitions including the recent World Cup, won a Gold Award for the Outstanding New Product Category of the year at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2014 organized by WAN-IFRA in Singapore on November 18.
Pacôme Pabandji, an AFPTV video journalist, from Central African Republic on Wednesday won the Rory Peck Award for News from a British media group that highlights the work of freelancers and campaigns for their safety.