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08/01/2018 - 12:07

Patrice Monti appointed Deputy Director of Sales & Marketing for AFP

Patrice Monti has been appointed Deputy Director of Sales & Marketing for Agence France-Presse. He will be seconding Group Director of Sales & Marketing Stéphane Marcovitch as of January 8.
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19/12/2017 - 15:44

Mratt Kyaw Thu wins AFP Kate Webb prize

Reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu has won the 2017 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb prize for his coverage of ethnic strife in his native Myanmar.
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04/12/2017 - 11:30

AFP and LaPresse in multi-year partnership agreement

Agence France-Presse and LaPresse conclude a multi-year partnership agreement, effective as of 1 January 2018.
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22/11/2017 - 14:59

AFP publishes its code of ethics in Chinese

The international news agency AFP has published its code of ethics, which sets out its guiding editorial principles, in Chinese.
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18/10/2017 - 15:11

Innovation at AFP: live photo transmission on the go

Starting with 2018’s Tour de France, Agence France-Presse will be generalizing live transmission of its photo production through the Aviwest transmitter.
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14/09/2017 - 15:02

AFP and Jiji Press sign a new agreement

Agence France-Presse and Jiji Press signed a new agreement in Tokyo on Thursday giving the Japanese news agency exclusive rights to sell certain AFP content in Japan for the next four years.
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22/08/2017 - 17:56

Marcos Vizcarra of Mexico named 2017 winner of Peter Mackler Award for Courageous & Ethical Journalism

The Global Media Forum Training Group, the US branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Agence France-Presse (AFP) today announce that Mexican journalist Marcos Vizcarra is the 2017 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the National Press Club on October 26, 2017.
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06/07/2017 - 15:20

AFPData, a project featuring AFP and three partners, is selected for Google DNI funding
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03/07/2017 - 15:28

Terrorism. Looming brexit. The migrant crisis. Climate Change. The European Union faces myriad pressing challenges.

Now Agence France-Presse (AFP), Italian news agency ANSA and Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) have teamed up to create the European Data News Hub (EDNH) website offering reliable, multimedia content on hot button issues.
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13/06/2017 - 11:02

Minds Global Spotlight: a multi-agency journalism collaboration on migration

Ten news agencies have joined in a special news investigation into migrant smuggling in the wake of the refugee crisis sweeping Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
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