AFP wins Rory Peck Award in News category for third consecutive year
Will Vassilopoulos, AFP stringer since 2011, has won the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the work of the best freelance video journalists.
Jerusalem (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 09:26:24 | Israel army says striking 'dozens' of Iran missile launchers
Almaty (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 09:20:18 | Kazakhstan says Russia to build its first nuclear power plant
Jerusalem (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 08:24:35 | Israel army says struck Iran 'defence arrays' in Tehran area
Jerusalem (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 08:09:31 | Israel rescuers say two killed by rocket fire on residential area
Tehran (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 07:06:25 | Iran downs Israeli reconnaissance drones: state TV
Ahmedabad (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 07:02:07 | India plane crash death toll rises to 279: police source
Tehran (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 04:48:44 | Iran launches fresh wave of attacks on Israel: state TV
Jerusalem (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 04:01:32 | Air raid sirens sound in Israel as Iran fires more missiles: Israeli military
United Nations (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 02:17:32 | 'Enough escalation. Time to stop,' UN chief says after Israel-Iran strikes
Tehran (AFP) | 14/06/2025 - 01:31:41 | Fire, heavy smoke at Mehrabad airport in Tehran: AFP journalist
Will Vassilopoulos, AFP stringer since 2011, has won the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the work of the best freelance video journalists.
Journalism students across the continent will be able to enter the African Fact-Checking Awards next year, organisers announced late Thursday, as they named reporters from Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon as winners of the top fact-checking prizes this year.
At the 20 December 2016 Meeting of AFP's Board of Directors, Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog presented a business development plan focusing on two priorities: video and corporate. AFP will also build up its range of live products in line with its objective of being, now more than ever, the real time news agency.
With the French presidential election approaching, AFP is taking part in two initiatives aimed at fighting fake news. The Agency is joining initiatives by the First Draft network, which is launching the CrossCheck project, and Facebook, with its fact checking tool that is incorporated into the social network.
The 2017 World Press Photo jury awarded prizes to three AFP photo journalists.
The new interactive graphics enhance the existing fixed graphics and videographics offers.
Seven AFP photojournalists win awards at the 74th Pictures Of the Year international (POYi).