AFP wins Asia prize for Best Environmental multimedia coverage
Agence France-Presse on Thursday was awarded top prize for its high-quality reporting on Asia’s fast-evolving environmental challenges.
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Agence France-Presse on Thursday was awarded top prize for its high-quality reporting on Asia’s fast-evolving environmental challenges.
AFP's photo coverage of the 2012 London Olympics will be on display at the Newseum for the duration of the event.
During the London Olympic Games, AFP will be showing the best of its photo output at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondants' Club (FCC).
Sports, a strategic priority, are being featured at AFP all summer. Beginning long before the start of the events, AFP has been on the ground since London was named in 2005 to hold this year’s Olympic Games to monitor preparations. AFP is sending 180 journalists to the Olympics in the British capital to provide comprehensive coverage of all the action and behind-the-scenes news.
The "hub" visualizes, analyzes and measures the presence and influence of diplomatic actors on Twitter, across the globe and in real time
Agence France-Presse and Taiwan's Central News Agency on Wednesday opened a photo exhibition in Taipei 101, the world's second-tallest building, featuring more than a century of Olympic history. The 165 photos on display -- including 120 from AFP's vast archive -- stretch from the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 to the Beijing event in 2008.
Jay Directo is 3rd in the « International News » category for his picture of children searching for objects to sell in Manila in August 2011.

Manpreet Romana receives the honorable mention in the « International News » category for the picture of this child crying during his father’s funeral, who died when their apartment building collapsed in New Dehli on November 15th, 2010.
Agence France-Presse is a proud partner of the first ever "Sportfolio", the Narbonne sports photography festival on 2-10 June. AFP is taking part this year in the Sportfolio festival, an international event launched this year with nearly 100 sport images selected both for their artistic qualities and for the emotion they convey.
...an exhibition of 17 monumental photographs of stars under the title “Cannes fait le mur”, that will grace the city’s walls and the “rue d’Antibes” from May 16 to June 30 2012.
Prune Perromat, AFP journalist in New York, appeared on Beast TV (The Daily Beast's video channel) on Friday May 11th to discuss the French presidential election.
Watch the interview below: