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Agence France-Presse (French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s fʁɑ̃s pʁɛs]; AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. With 2,400 employees of 100 nationalities, AFP has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries. [1]
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
The Rise of Western Journalism 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007), Chapter on France by Ross Collins; Cragin, Thomas J. "The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France." Book History 4.1 (2001): 49–80. online; Edelstein, Melvin.
Several government departments have been the target of computer attacks of "unprecedented intensity", French news agency AFP reported, citing sources in the prime minister's office. BFM TV ...
Gerard Depardieu’s sexual assault trial has been delayed until March 2025, French news agency AFP reports. Earlier on Monday, Depardieu had asked for a postponement as he was no longer able to ...
The original Havas was the world's first news agency, created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas. The Agence France-Presse news agency comes from it. Havas was acquired by Vivendi in 1998, and renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing. VUP in turn merged with Lagardère to become Editis in 2004. [citation needed]
During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Media Show, Phil Chetwynd, the global news director of Agence France-Presse (AFP), claimed the palace is “absolutely not” considered a “trusted ...
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