AFP wins the Bayeux-Calvados photo award for war correspondents
AFP photojournalist Mohamed Al-Shaikh receives first prize from the jury of the 21st Bayeux-Calvados awards, Bulent Kilic awarded third.
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AFP photojournalist Mohamed Al-Shaikh receives first prize from the jury of the 21st Bayeux-Calvados awards, Bulent Kilic awarded third.
AFP AND JIJI PRESS ON OCTOBER 6TH SIGNED AN AGREEMENT GIVING THE JAPANESE AGENCY RIGHTS TO DISTRIBUTE AFP'S NEWS PRODUCTS IN JAPAN OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
Starting today, AFP content will be available worldwide on the new MSN experience at msn.com
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Québec’s Laval University today signed a partnership agreement under which AFP pledged to host trainee journalists at bureaux within its international network and contribute to the University’s journalism courses.
The leading German sports news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst (SID), a subsidiary of AFP, is launching a pilot project to test the automatic writing of sports fixture lists in conjunction with German technology partner aexea. The aim is to explore the possibility of producing sports news with technology which uses a data base and algorithms.
Two contrasting photo exhibitions by AFP will be featured in the International Photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image which runs from August 30 to September 14 2014 in Perpignan, France. One showcases AFP’s prize-winning coverage of Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines in November 2013, and the other features images taken by children in a Rio favela on the eve of the FIFA World Cup.
Global Media Forum, the US branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Agence France-Presse are pleased to announce that Asma Shirazi is the 2014 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 23rd.
Following the release of a video purporting to show the murder of journalist James Foley, AFP pays tribute to him and shares the grief of his family.
AFP & VALOTA HAVE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT FOR DELIVERING AFP’S NEWS CONTENT TO DIGITAL SIGNAGE SCREENS GLOBALLY THROUGH VALOTALIVE.COM SERVICE.