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.

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.

BACKSTORY I How AFP's Jeff Pachoud got those 'insane' Olympic BMX shots

His eye-popping picture of a BMX ace seemingly riding to the top of an ancient Egyptian obelisk on his bike during the Paris Olympics has gone around the world.


Argentina's Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. © Jeff Pachoud / AFP

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