Czech Press Photo: AFP’s Joe Klamar wins Picture of the Year

AFP photographer Joe Klamar won the Picture of the Year award at the Czech Press Photo 2009 contest with a photo of US President Barack Obama taken during his visit to Prague in April, the organisers said Monday. An international jury selected a picture of Obama giving a speech as he gazed at the statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), with the city skyline in the background hidden in fog.

AFP photographer Joe Klamar won the Picture of the Year award at the Czech Press Photo 2009 contest with a photo of US President Barack Obama taken during his visit to Prague in April, the organisers said Monday. An international jury selected a picture of Obama giving a speech as he gazed at the statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), with the city skyline in the background hidden in fog.
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AFP 3D VIDEOGRAPHIC WINS ASIAN DIGITAL PUBLISHING INNOVATORS FIRST PRIZE

The World Association of Journalists and Press Editors has awarded an AFP videographic first prize en the category "best online animated graphic" at the Asian Conference on Digital Media in Hong Kong

The World Association of Journalists and Press Editors has awarded an AFP videographic first prize en the category "best online animated graphic" at the Asian Conference on Digital Media in Hong Kong
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Four days at the mercy of Kadhafi’s secret state by Dave Clark

AJDABIYA/SIRTE/TRIPOLI (AFP) - The first shots rang out as ominous but faint pops while the Libyan army Land Cruiser was still several hundred metres away but, as it roared down upon us, the gunfire built into an insistent volley of sharp, earsplitting cracks.

AJDABIYA/SIRTE/TRIPOLI (AFP) - The first shots rang out as ominous but faint pops while the Libyan army Land Cruiser was still several hundred metres away but, as it roared down upon us, the gunfire built into an insistent volley of sharp, earsplitting cracks.
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Bunka Gakuen, AFP launch news service for universities

TOKYO - Top Japanese fashion school Bunka Gakuen and Agence France-Presse on Tuesday launched a service providing global news and archive material to Japanese universities and higher learning institutions.

TOKYO - Top Japanese fashion school Bunka Gakuen and Agence France-Presse on Tuesday launched a service providing global news and archive material to Japanese universities and higher learning institutions.
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Indian journalist takes AFP prize for Kashmir work

Dilnaz Boga, an Indian reporter and photographer, received the Kate Webb Prize from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday for her courageous investigative work in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Dilnaz Boga, an Indian reporter and photographer, received the Kate Webb Prize from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday for her courageous investigative work in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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AFP-APA technological cooperation

AFP has joined forces with the Austrian news agency <a rel="external" href="http://www.apa.at">APA </a> to develop an Event Manager, a multilingual application for the editorial management of news events. It is one of the cornerstones of <a rel="external" href="http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/content/news/project-rich-media-news">AFP's Rich Media News Agency Project </a>, an ambitious project to transform the agency and sharpen its multimedia edge.

AFP has joined forces with the Austrian news agency <a rel="external" href="http://www.apa.at">APA </a> to develop an Event Manager, a multilingual application for the editorial management of news events. It is one of the cornerstones of <a rel="external" href="http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/content/news/project-rich-media-news">AFP's Rich Media News Agency Project </a>, an ambitious project to transform the agency and sharpen its multimedia edge.
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Pierre Louette re-elected chairman of AFP

The Agence France-Presse board on Friday elected Pierre Louette to a second three-year term as chairman and chief executive of the international news agency.

The Agence France-Presse board on Friday elected Pierre Louette to a second three-year term as chairman and chief executive of the international news agency.
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AFP journalists released

Two Agence France-Presse journalists and a Getty Images photographer arrested in Libya on Saturday have been released in Tripoli.

Two Agence France-Presse journalists and a Getty Images photographer arrested in Libya on Saturday have been released in Tripoli.
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Journalists detained in Libya: AFP Chairman Emmanuel Hoog writes to Colonel Kadhafi

In a March 22 letter regarding detained Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, as well as photographer Joe Raedle from Getty Images,

In a March 22 letter regarding detained Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, as well as photographer Joe Raedle from Getty Images,
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AFP: Two journalists arrested by the Libyan army

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.
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