Roger Bouzinac elected AFP president & CEO
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Claude Roussel elected AFP president & CEO
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An international news agency
AFP has 25 bureaus across France, 46 overseas, and 13 in French overseas territories. It has correspondents in 116 countries and provides news in 73 countries.
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Headquarters transformed
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Jean Marin
Jean Marin is appointed CEO. After the vote of the Agence France-Presse Statute in January 1957, he is re-elected every three years and
remained president and CEO until 1975.
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AFP journalist Sammy Ketz wins the Albert Londres Prize
Sammy Ketz shares the Albert
Londres Prize with Libération
colleague Sorj Chalandon for his
coverage of the 6-year civil war in
Lebanon.
The Agency moves to Place de la Bourse, Paris
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Agence Française Indépendante (AFI) founded in London by Paul-Louis Bret
Paul-Louis Bret considers that AFI can represent what remains of free French public opinion, with the capacity to criticise the Vichy regime. The AFI reaches an agreement with the British Ministry of Information and Reuters to broadcast a daily French language service of around 10,000 words across free Europe.
Reuter-Wolff-Havas agreement
An agreement between the three
major agencies - Reuter, based in London, Wolff in Berlin, and Havas – divides the world between them for the collection and dissemination of
information.
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