AFP wins four World Press Photo prizes
Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
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Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
AT THE AFP BOARD MEETING ON 2 FEBRUARY 2016, CHAIRMAN EMMANUEL HOOG PRESENTED THE WAYS AND MEANS THAT WILL ALLOW THE AGENCY TO ENSURE THE NECESSARY INNOVATIONS IN 2016 TO DEVELOP THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF VIDEO AND SPORT (WHICH IS DOMINATED IN 2016 BY THE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES) AND THE COVERAGE OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog on Friday demanded in a letter addressed to President Pierre Nkurunziza the release of journalists Jean-Philippe Rémy and Phil Moore who were arrested Thursday in Burundi.
Longstanding partnership continues to provide news rooms around the world with unrivalled coverage of news, sport and entertainment imagery and video.
Under an agreement signed in Paris on Tuesday January 19 with KCNA (the Korean Central News Agency), Agence France-Presse will open a permanent bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Under a new partnership agreement with Scribblelive, AFP’s Live Reports will now be available on this real-time content platform.
Agence France-Presse is putting in a place an exceptional coverage plan for the US presidential election - blogs, social network posts, live reports and multimedia packages will provide both breaking news coverage and behind-the-scenes reports.
AFP’s coverage of COP21 features the infographic ‘Target +2°C What’s left to Negotiate’ on the site AFP.com. It presents in a visual and simplified way the emission reductions that have already been achieved and what is left to be done to reach the targets of COP21.
AFP and SINA Sports have signed a content agreement allowing the leading Beijing-based news portal to feature AFP’s extensive coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics and Euro Soccer Championship.
The website www.fr.africacheck.org was devised and developed by the AFP Foundation, with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and in a partnership with the EJICOM journalism school in Dakar, Senegal, where its editorial team is based.