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31/03/2015 - 14:31

AFP launches "AFP TweetFoot", a unique B2B platform for following the best of european football with Twitter

Developed by AFP for its clients AFP#TweetFoot leverages the best of Twitter to follow top National Football Leagues in Europe, extracting only the most pertinent and influential timelines and tweets
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13/03/2015 - 14:12

Appointments at AFP

Philippe Massonnet appointed Asia-Pacific director   Philippe Massonnet, 56, was Agence France-Presse global news director from 2009 to 2014.   He began his career in 1981, working as a freelance journalist in China for the press and television from 1985 to 1989.  
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26/02/2015 - 14:38

AFP FOUNDATION AND CHIME FOR CHANGE WORKSHOP TO GIVE WOMEN A VOICE IN KURDISTAN

Iraqi and Kurdish female refugees will have the chance to tell their stories thanks to a five-day workshop to be run in Erbil, Iraq, from March 1 to 5 by the AFP Foundation and Chime for Change, the campaign which raises funds and awareness to empower women and girls around the world.
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12/02/2015 - 12:50

AFP’s Bülent Kiliҫ receives two awards at the World Press Photo 2015

AFP photojournalist Bülent Kiliç received first and third prizes in the category Spot News Single at the annual World Press Photo Awards.
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02/02/2015 - 12:34

AFP appoints new heads of service

Christine Buhagiar, 53, has been appointed deputy head of video responsible for international development, based in London. A graduate of the CFJ and the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, Christine has a long experience in video. After serving on the French desk and in the political and economic reporting services, she was responsible for the AFP service that supplied video to Bloomberg TV in 2000 and 2001.
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07/01/2015 - 16:33

An attack on democracy (AFP staff statement)

The staff of Agence France-Presse are shocked and outraged by the barbaric attack against the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris. Our thoughts go out to the victims of this despicable crime against freedom of expression, unprecedented in France, as well as to their families and colleagues. We voice our complete solidarity with Charlie Hebdo and hope our fellow journalists at the publication will be able to continue doing their job.

07/01/2015 - 13:54

AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog expresses horror at attack on Charlie Hebdo

AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog and global news director Michèle Léridon expressed their "horror" and "indignation" over this "attack of unprecedented violence on the French press." They also expressed their "greatest solidarity and support for their colleagues at Charlie Hebdo who have been so cruelly attacked."
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06/01/2015 - 10:48

AFP boosts Gulf presence with new Qatar office

Agence France-Presse opened at the beginning of 2015 an office in Doha, making AFP the first of the "big three" historic general news agencies to have a fully-fledged bureau in Qatar.
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29/12/2014 - 15:54

AFP’s Bulent Kilic chosen as the Guardian’s photographer of the year

The Guardian announced today that it has picked Agence France-Presse’s Bulent Kilic as photographer of the year for his coverage of the Middle East and Europe.
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22/12/2014 - 15:13

AFP’s Bulent Kilic chosen as TIME Magazine’s best wire photographer of 2014

The US news magazine TIME announced today that it has picked AFP photographer Bulent Kilic as its ‘Best Wire Photographer of 2014’ for his coverage of the Middle East and Europe.
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