Launched at the beginning of the year by AFP and Relaxnews, the world’s first leisure newswire gets a promising early assessment despite the economic crisis.

Motion content from Agence France-Press is now available via Framepool.com. As a global news agency, AFP supplies comprehensive, reliable and independent reports from across the world. More than 40 international video production units produce a wide range of reports in 7 languages 24/7. These clips are now available via Framepool.com for further licensing and use by filmmakers. The marketing agreement between AFP and Framepool applies both to current and future material, as well as to motion content from previous years.

A “web 2.0” publishing applicationAFP’s new publishing application lets web and mobile operators handle AFP's multimedia content for the 2010 Winter Olympics and World Cup. The online application automates publication of AFP content (illustrated historical and biographical data, real time stories, results, photo slideshows, videos) and allows clients to customize multimedia feeds to publish HTML modules directly on websites or mobile websites. It can handle all of AFP’s multimedia content and allows the generation of a search engine (which can access all AFP production) and links from AFP content to social networking websites, as well as handling top online advertising formats.

The International news agency, Agence France Presse (AFP) and BNS, Asia’s leading IPTV technology and content solutions provider, have entered into a content distribution partnership to make AFP’s news content available on BNS’ in-room hospitality entertainment platform, RoomWise.

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.

Agence France-Presse (AFP), the world’s most far-reaching news agency, and Handmark®, a world-leading provider of games, applications and services for mobile phones, today announced they have partnered to launch a new mobile application, AFP Mobile News for BlackBerry® smartphone users.

The scholarship was launched this year to honour the commitment to journalism training of veteran AFP journalist Peter Mackler, who died suddenly in June, 2008. Mackler, who was AFP North Americas chief editor at the time of his death, was a founding board member of the AFP Foundation, which runs training programmes for journalists in the developing world.

Agence France-Presse on Monday named Florence Biedermann as its new chief editor.

New from Paris Modes. The AFP partner for fashion video, which covers the haute couture and ready-to-wear shows in Paris, London, Milan and New York, as well as exclusive interviews with celebrated designers, has revamped its coverage.

The global news and media industry is battling once-in-a-lifetime challenges: recession worsened by a dramatic fall in advertising income, and the technological challenge of the digital revolution, the rise of the Internet and innovation in the mobile phone sector.