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06/10/2014 - 18:50

AFP signs new agreement with Jiji

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.
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30/09/2014 - 16:40

AFP to provide content on the new MSN

Starting today, AFP content will be available worldwide on the new MSN experience at msn.com
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19/09/2014 - 17:43

AFP partners with Québec’s Laval University to enrich training of future journalists

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.
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03/09/2014 - 12:31

Sports agency SID and aexea test automatic writing of sports news

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.
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29/08/2014 - 13:11

Two AFP photo exhibitions featured at Visa pour l’Image

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.
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22/08/2014 - 11:42

Asma Shirazi of Pakistan named 2014 winner of Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism

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.
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20/08/2014 - 18:16

AFP pays tribute to James Foley

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.
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18/07/2014 - 16:47

Emmanuel Marcovitch appointed AFP’s Administrative and Financial Director

Emmanuel Marcovitch, Deputy Managing Director of AFP, has been appointed as the agency’s Administrative and Financial Director.
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09/07/2014 - 14:46

José Manuel López wins “Px3” Paris photo prizes for coverage of Syria for AFP

Spanish photographer José Manuel López has won prizes in three news categories in the Px3 Paris photo awards* for his coverage of the massacre of young men in the Syrian civil war. His shocking images of bodies pulled out of the Quweig river in Aleppo earned him a gold medal in the category “Press-General News”, a silver medal in “Press-War” and third place in the overall “Px3 Paris photography prize”.
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04/07/2014 - 13:34

Philippines journalist wins AFP’s 2014 Kate Webb Prize

News agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has awarded the 2014 Kate Webb Prize for frontline journalism to Philippines reporter Patricia Evangelista for her courageous coverage of a Moslem insurgency and the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
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