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14/09/2017 - 17:02

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 - 19:56

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 - 17:20

AFPData, a project featuring AFP and three partners, is selected for Google DNI funding
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03/07/2017 - 17:28

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 - 13:02

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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27/04/2017 - 17:18

AFP ethics guidelines published in Arabic

AFP now has Arabic language versions of its charter – which reflects AFP’s values – and its guidelines on ethics and best editorial practices – which set down its basic principles and ethical standards.
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20/04/2017 - 20:42

AFP’s 2016 accounts approved at board meeting on 20 April 2017

In a context of recessionary domestic and international market environments that continued to worsen in 2016, Agence France-Presse generated a positive operating margin of 12.4 M€, 1.1 M€ below the 2015 figure on a like-for-like basis.
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18/04/2017 - 17:51

Otman Meriche appointed Managing Director of AFP-Services

Jon Dillon, former Managing Director for AFP-Services, will be in charge of the Corporate Business Development in the Sales and Marketing Department. Former Director of Marketing Otman Meriche has been appointed Managing Director of AFP-Services.
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05/04/2017 - 15:10

News agencies AFP, ANSA and DPA have joined forces for the first time to build the European Data News Hub (EDNH) offering free news about the European Union

The news agencies will launch the European Data News Hub (EDNH) in June 2017, offering a rich resource of content free of charge to international media.
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04/04/2017 - 13:54

Social video creation platform Wochit adds AFP’s award-winning videos and images to extensive library of video assets

Partnership brings leading publishers more real-time, breaking news content from around the world to incorporate in video stories.
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