Pierre Louette elected AFP president & CEO
Re-elected as AFP chairman on October 12, 2008.
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Re-elected as AFP chairman on October 12, 2008.
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Following the release of a video purporting to show the murder of journalist James Foley, AFP pays tribute to him and shares the grief of his family.
Global Media Forum, the US branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Agence France-Presse are pleased to announce that Asma Shirazi is the 2014 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 23rd.
For the second year in a row, AFP is participating in Women’s Forum Brazil on 17 and 18 June in São Paolo.
Two contrasting photo exhibitions by AFP will be featured in the International Photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image which runs from August 30 to September 14 2014 in Perpignan, France. One showcases AFP’s prize-winning coverage of Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines in November 2013, and the other features images taken by children in a Rio favela on the eve of the FIFA World Cup.
AFP is also rewarded with the 1st prize in the "News Story" category during the 2019 edition of the competition.
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AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.