AFP at major media conference in Argentina

On 19 and 20 September, AFP took part in the annual General Assembly of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas), the influential association of Argentine media, held in Posadas, in the north of the country.

AFP appoints Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio.


Meyer, 43, currently holds the position of Global Editor-in-Chief for Video and is the first journalist from the video department to step into this management role. He succeeds Juliette Hollier-Larousse, who has held the position since 2017.

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Geothermal Developer Ignis H2 Energy Raises $12.5M in Series A First Close

Ignis H2 Energy Inc. (“Ignis Energy”), a geothermal exploration and development startup, announced today the successful first closing of its Series A funding round, securing $12.5 million from a consortium of investors, including leading funds and private individuals. The funding round was led by alfa8 and includes a commitment from drilling contractor Nabors Industries, alongside investments from existing shareholders, private individuals, and family offices. Advancing a Global, Risk-Balanced...

Op-ed by Fabrice Fries, AFP Chairman and CEO

AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.

AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.

Eighty years ago, as Paris was liberated, AFP was born

Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of resistance journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over five days before Paris was liberated.

By Juliette Baillot


It was August 20, 1944, two days after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.

BACKSTORY I The secrets of AFP's top Olympics photos

A surfer soaring above the clouds, a BMX champion riding up the Concorde obelisk, the first-ever Olympic dive into the Seine... AFP photographers tell us how they captured some of the incredible images from the Paris Olympic Games.

By Marine Do-Vale


- Levitating surfer -

It's one of the most widely used images from the Games: Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly levitating above the waves, finger to the sky, surfboard vertically behind him.

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