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08/06/2026 - 19:18

EXPERIENCE THE WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS: AFP LAUNCHES ITS iPAD APPLICATION IN ENGLISH

AFP is launching its iPad application in English at the annual conference of the Online News Association; a new offering, free of charge, providing access to a selection of fast, accurate news from around the world.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

London-based Carl Court was named News Photographer of the Year at the UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2011 on Tuesday

The jury praised a series of pictures shot by 35-year-old Carl for AFP. They included a series of pictures of the student riots in London, another shows a demonstrator calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and another is of a policeman caught in the act of moving a cat away from the doorstep of 10 Downing Street with his boot.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP and Japanese news agency JIJI Press have extended an historic collaboration that goes back decades

AFP’s global news coverage in text, photos, and graphics will continue to be made available to Japanese clients via JIJI Press, under an agreement signed in Paris by AFP Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog and JIJI President Masahiro Nakato last wednesday.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP BOARD MEETING

“We must secure public funding for the Agency”

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP and Xinhua have signed an agreement on mobiles

AFP will supply the Chinese news agency Xinhua with photos for its multimedia telco products in the fast growing Chinese mobile market, under an agreement signed by the two agencies.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP, Antara to launch Bahasa Indonesia news products

Agence France-Presse and Indonesia's national news agency Antara signed an agreement Tuesday to launch multimedia services in the Indonesian language.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP appoints Christophe Vogt and Eric Baradat to the editor in chief’s office

Christophe Vogt, 45, has been appointed deputy chief news editor. He joined AFP in 1995 as correspondent in Frankfurt where he covered the Bundesbank. As a reporter in Paris over the next decade, he covered economics, including notably the birth of the euro currency.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP’s Sales and Marketing Group Director Erik Monjalous is leaving the Agency at the end of September

Over his five years at AFP, Erik Monjalous implemented a policy of diversifying and adapting sales for new platforms and new media.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP tightens rules on using social networks

The Arab revolutions from Tunisia to Yemen have underscored the importance of the social networks for newsrooms the world over. Therefore in the context of current events in Syria, AFP is painstakingly collecting and verifying data from the social networks on a daily basis.

08/06/2026 - 19:18

AFP chairman talks media future with US counterparts

Emmanuel Hoog, AFP's chairman and chief executive officer, wound up a US tour over the weekend involving talks with US counterparts on how news organizations are adapting to the rapidly evolving landscape of new mobile and Internet media platforms.