More Live broadcasts, more original reporting: 2019 is a landmark year for AFP video
A year ago, AFP customers discovered AFPTV Live Select, a new, multi-feed Live video offer with IP delivery available via the web platform AFPTVLIVE.
London (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 14:58:51 | Record 19,982 migrants cross Channel since January 1
Moscow (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 14:23:36 | Russian ex-defence official jailed for 13 years on corruption charges
Lisbon (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 14:00:02 | Portugal hit record high June temperature of 46.6 Celsius
Madrid (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 13:11:51 | Scorching June 'pulverised' Spain heat record: weather service
Moscow (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:59:40 | Ukraine drone attack kills 3, wounds 35 in Russia's Izhevsk
London (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:50:59 | 92-year-old UK man sentenced to life over 1967 murder
Copenhagen (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:47:09 | SAS to buy 55 planes from Brazil's Embraer for $3.95 bn
Warsaw (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:36:11 | Poland says to impose checks on German border to stop irregular migrants
Kyiv (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:27:58 | Ukraine drones targeted military factory in Russia's Izhevsk: Kyiv source
Paris (AFP) | 01/07/2025 - 12:10:50 | French PM says hopes Algeria will pardon jailed writer Sansal
A year ago, AFP customers discovered AFPTV Live Select, a new, multi-feed Live video offer with IP delivery available via the web platform AFPTVLIVE.
Three AFP photographers nominated for prizes in the 2019 edition of the World Press Photo.
From April 1, its german sports news agency subsidiary SID will have a dual leadership structure with the aim of winning new clients in media and non-media sectors.
A new segment on the French television channel TF1’s Saturday evening news programme will show viewers how AFP journalists debunked a fake news story.
AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operations through a major new contract with Facebook covering the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is being added to fact-checking in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese that is carried out by AFP teams in 16 countries throughout the world.
Sophie Huet is taking over as AFP Global Editor-in-Chief, replacing Phil Chetwynd, who was appointed Global News Director on January 9th 2019. Jean-Luc Bardet succeeds Sophie Huet as Deputy News Director. He will retain his current portfolio as France director. They will take up their new duties on February 4th.
Freelance reporter Asad Hashim wins the 2018 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for his coverage of the plight of ethnic Pashtuns and blasphemy issues in his native Pakistan.
Patrice Monti, currently Deputy Director of Sales & Marketing for Agence France-Presse will replace Stéphane Marcovitch from December 1st.
The 25th Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondents Prize event singled out two AFP photojournalists. Mahmud Hams received the first prize in the Photo category while Juan Barreto is awarded with the third prize.