Passing of Jean-Pierre Vignolle, Former Commercial Director and Managing Director of AFP
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jean-Pierre Vignolle, at the age of 77.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jean-Pierre Vignolle, at the age of 77.
According to a study led by Forbes and Statista last November, AFP gets the 7th place among the 49 French ranked companies, and the 65th place among the 400 worldwide companies overall. AFP is also the first media that appears in the ranking.
AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog on Friday demanded in a letter addressed to President Pierre Nkurunziza the release of journalists Jean-Philippe Rémy and Phil Moore who were arrested Thursday in Burundi.
AT THE AFP BOARD MEETING ON 2 FEBRUARY 2016, CHAIRMAN EMMANUEL HOOG PRESENTED THE WAYS AND MEANS THAT WILL ALLOW THE AGENCY TO ENSURE THE NECESSARY INNOVATIONS IN 2016 TO DEVELOP THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF VIDEO AND SPORT (WHICH IS DOMINATED IN 2016 BY THE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES) AND THE COVERAGE OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
As part of its series of exclusive multimedia special reports, AFP is broadcasting a special report on Antarctica to mark the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, as well as the 60 year anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty signed on December 1st 1959 in Washington.
Press freedom groups and international news organizations, including AFP, unveiled on Thursday, February 12, 2015, new safety guidelines to protect freelance journalists following a series of high-profile kidnappings and murders in conflict zones.
Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.