AFP wins fourth Rory Peck video award
Luis Sequeira, an AFP video stringers from Nicaragua, wins the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the best work by freelance photo and video journalists.
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 19:05:05 | Israel military says identified body of Hamas Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar
London (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 17:10:53 | UK to announce plans to extend ban on seabed trawling
Dakar (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 15:34:32 | Wagner replaced by Russia's Africa Corp in Mali: diplomatic sources
Bogotá (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 15:25:45 | Powerful 6.3 magnitude quake shakes Bogota: AFP
Kyiv (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 14:45:18 | Ukraine says POW exchange with Russia to take place 'next week'
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 13:57:44 | Israel orders military to block aid boat from reaching Gaza
Moscow (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 10:48:37 | Russia says pushing offensive into Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region
Bogotá (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 09:59:54 | Colombian presidential candidate successfully underwent surgery after shooting: mayor
Washington (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 04:37:58 | Rubio blames 'violent leftist rhetoric' for Colombia assassination attempt
Bogotá (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 04:07:29 | Colombian presidential candidate was shot three times, twice in head: paramedics
Luis Sequeira, an AFP video stringers from Nicaragua, wins the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the best work by freelance photo and video journalists.
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral in London will be broadcast live by AFPTV teams from the forecourt of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, where the funeral procession is set to arrive and where Queen Elizabeth is expected to attend the church service.
Javier Manzano, a freelance photographer working for Agence France-Presse, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday April 15 for a photograph of two Syrian rebels guarding their position in the embattled city of Aleppo. It is the second year in a row that a photographer working for AFP has been awarded the most prestigious US journalism prize after Massoud Hossaini of Afghanistan won in the Breaking News category in 2012
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Starting from January, AFP will become a main provider of international video news for KBS, the public service broadcaster in Korea.
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award goes to Fabio Bucciarelli and the "National Press Photographers Association" (NPPA) honors four AFP photographer-reporters in its annual "The best of photojournalism" competition.
The coronation of Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, and the following festivities are broadcast live and continuously from Amsterdam by the AFPTV teams.
AFP continues to develop its digital investigation activities on the American continent with the deployment of a new unit based in Washington, covering the whole of the United States.
AFP has been covering the bloody conflict in Syria for more than two years. Conditions inside the country are extremely dangerous and many journalists have been killed, injured or kidnapped since the conflict started. A contributor to AFP’s video service disappeared in November 2012. Faced with the worsening of conditions on the ground for journalists, AFP has reinforced its procedures for covering the conflict in Syria with the aim of improving safety for everybody working for the agency inside the country.