AFP wins fourth Rory Peck video award
Luis Sequeira, an AFP video stringer from Nicaragua, wins the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the best work by freelance photo and video journalists.
Here are the top 10 videos on AFP English this week (3rd November to 10th November)
AFP wins the Bayeux-Calvados Photo award for war correspondents
AFP photographer Mohammed Al-Shaikh and the BBC's Lyse Doucet were among the winners at the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents announced on Saturday in Bayeux, northwestern France. Three of the seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, where a devastating civil war has raged for the past three and a half years.
Philippine journalist receives AFP Kate Webb Prize
Multimedia journalist Patricia Evangelista received the 2014 Kate Webb Prize from Agence France-Presse on Friday for her compelling reporting on conflict and disaster in her native Philippines.
The African Fact-Checking Awards
The AFP Foundation, the non-profit media training arm of the AFP news agency, will unveil – at a meeting of senior figures from the African media industry in Nairobi on the evening of Friday 14 November – the names of the winner and two runners up the first ever African Fact-Checking Awards.
AFP photographer Bulent Kilic receives four distinctions at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar photo
The Best Portfolio category First Place – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse http://www.photojournalism.org/contest/winners/2014/best-portfolio/ News Picture Story First Place – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse Honorable Mention – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse
AFP-INFOPLUM wins Outstanding New Product Award at Asian Digital Media Conference
The Football (Soccer) Data Cube, a responsive html application covering football (soccer) competitions including the recent World Cup, won a Gold Award for the Outstanding New Product Category of the year at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2014 organized by WAN-IFRA in Singapore on November 18.
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