AFP protests photojournalist’s expulsion from Nicaragua
Agence France-Presse sent a letter to the Nicaraguan government to protest Chilean photojournalist Hector Retamal’s arrest and expulsion from Managua.
Agence France-Presse sent a letter to the Nicaraguan government to protest Chilean photojournalist Hector Retamal’s arrest and expulsion from Managua.
AFP has been covering the bloody conflict in Syria for more than two years. Conditions inside the country are extremely dangerous and many journalists have been killed, injured or kidnapped since the conflict started. A contributor to AFP’s video service disappeared in November 2012. Faced with the worsening of conditions on the ground for journalists, AFP has reinforced its procedures for covering the conflict in Syria with the aim of improving safety for everybody working for the agency inside the country.
The coronation of Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, and the following festivities are broadcast live and continuously from Amsterdam by the AFPTV teams.
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award goes to Fabio Bucciarelli and the "National Press Photographers Association" (NPPA) honors four AFP photographer-reporters in its annual "The best of photojournalism" competition.
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral in London will be broadcast live by AFPTV teams from the forecourt of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, where the funeral procession is set to arrive and where Queen Elizabeth is expected to attend the church service.
Javier Manzano, a freelance photographer working for Agence France-Presse, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday April 15 for a photograph of two Syrian rebels guarding their position in the embattled city of Aleppo. It is the second year in a row that a photographer working for AFP has been awarded the most prestigious US journalism prize after Massoud Hossaini of Afghanistan won in the Breaking News category in 2012
AFP Dhaka photographer Munir uz Zaman has been honoured at an Asian media awards ceremony for a "heart-wrenching" series of images of penniless Rohingya refugees striving in vain to flee communal bloodshed in Myanmar.
The Board of Directors of Agence France-Presse met on 4 April 2013
Yahoo! has renewed its trust in AFP to provide the Agency's Multimedia, Photo and Video content across its European Sites - Yahoo.fr, Yahoo.de, Yahoo.es, Yahoo.co.uk - as well as Yahoo.co.za for South Africa.
DAYS JAPAN AND THE WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION AWARD PRIZES TO FIVE AFP PHOTOGRAPHERS