AFP is looking for a dynamic and experienced editor to join its English-language news desk at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

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Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the world's leading news agencies, is looking for a dynamic, experienced editor to join its English-language newsdesk at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

Global news leader AFP is offering an exciting opportunity to be a part of the agency’s fast-growing digital verification network, which has taken a frontline role in combatting misinformation, fact-checking and monitoring emerging narratives that shape public perceptions of news events around the world.

The editor will focus on misinformation in North America and edit fact-checking stories from around the region.

THE JOB

The Moscow bureau covers a busy, complex and fascinating region of 280 million people: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The journalist, who will be writing in English, will cover breaking news in a highly competitive environment, showing strong news judgement and the ability to write punchy, engaging copy. You will generate lively, image-rich feature and focus stories in close cooperation with other members of a dynamic multimedia team.

AFP is offering a two-month traineeship with our Slovak fact-check site, Fakty, for a young person with a strong interest in investigating disinformation and misinformation circulating on social networks.

It is a good opportunity to learn the basics with AFP's fast-growing fact-checking network, which is a leading actor in the global fight against disinformation.