AFP wins four World Press Photo prizes
Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
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Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operations through a major new contract with Facebook covering the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is being added to fact-checking in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese that is carried out by AFP teams in 16 countries throughout the world.
From 27 August to 11 September 2016, the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan will showcase Aris Messinis’s coverage of migrants landing on the beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos.
A new segment on the French television channel TF1’s Saturday evening news programme will show viewers how AFP journalists debunked a fake news story.
Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis was honoured Saturday at photojournalism's biggest annual festival, for moving images of the massive arrival of migrants in Greece last year.
Global news agency AFP has opened a bureau in North Korea, becoming one of only a handful of foreign media organisations to have a permanent presence in the one of the world’s most isolated states.
AFP photographers have swept the 2016 Spot News awards, and have also received distinctions in the Feature and News Picture Story categories.