AFP video’s success in the Brazilian market
AFP signs two new broadcast contracts in Brazil
AFP signs two new broadcast contracts in Brazil
Charles Onians, 38, a journalist in the Paris Bureau, is to take over as bureau chief in The Hague on September 1. Emmanuel Duparcq, 38, reporter in the Islamabad bureau, takes over as bureau chief on July 1. He will be responsible for supervising news coverage in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Jean-Luc Bardet, deputy editor-in-chief from 2008 to 2012, took over as Brussels bureau chief on June 18. He is 49 years old.
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Philip Chetwynd, 43, AFP’s editor-in-chief for the Asia-Pacific region, is appointed Central Editor-in-Chief to replace Florence Biedermann, who takes over as Director of the Europe/Africa region. He will take up his duties on October 1.
AFP is expanding its presence on iPad platforms with an arabic version of its information App launched at the end of September in English and in November in Spanish and Portuguese.
Agence France-Presse is a proud partner of the first ever "Sportfolio", the Narbonne sports photography festival on 2-10 June.
Massoud Hossaini (30) from Afghanistan won first prize in the “International News” category for a photograph of a little girl dressed in green crying in the midst of the victims of an attack in Kabul on 6 December 2011 that left 80 dead and 150 wounded.
From the 65th Cannes Film Festival, AFP will broadcast on Sunday a live video just after the names of the prize-winners have been announced.
AFP photographer Massoud Hossaini starts a 10-day tour of the northeastern United States on May 20th, having recently been awarded the Pulitzer prize in the Breaking News Photography category.