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📸 L’AFP s’expose lors de la deuxième édition du Deauville Sport Images Festival À partir du 6 juin 2026 et jusqu’au 6 septembre, la Ville de Deauville accueille la deuxième édition du Deauville Sport Images Festival, rendez-vous dédié à la photographie sportive, dont l’AFP est partenaire. L’édition 2026 du festival accorde une place particulière au sport féminin, à travers des expositions et projections consacrées à des athlètes engagées, à des femmes photographes et à des figures marquantes du sport d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. À cette occasion, le travail des photojournalistes de l’AFP est mis à l’honneur à travers plusieurs expositions et projections. BITL - Bring It To Light Plus d’informations en commentaire

🔎 Job opportunity – Fact-Checking Journalist (Athens)    AFP is currently seeking a Fact-Checking Journalist to join its Athens bureau.  You will work in a fast-paced, international newsroom environment, leading digital verification and fact-checking in Greek and English.  You will identify and debunk online misinformation, while collaborating with editorial teams to ensure accurate, impartial and high-quality reporting across social media and digital platforms.    ➡️ For more information, see the link in the comments. 

📝 Press Release – AFP unveils a photography exhibition celebrating real lives in the Balkans Agence France-Presse (AFP), with the support of the L'Oréal Group, announces the launch of a new photography exhibition and dialogue series, “Unbounded Voices”, showcasing the lives of different women across the Balkans. Opening on May 19, 2026, at the French Institute in Belgrade, the exhibition aims to capture the everyday realities of women from Tirana to Banja Luka. Born from a gap between perception and reality, this project aims to stimulate debate and show the reality far from the stereotypical images too often projected onto the region, portraying the pride, joys, power and strength of women who have long claimed their own space, even when history tried to deny them.   Entirely curated and driven by AFP journalists, the exhibition is a completely independent editorial project. The essential backing of the L'Oréal Group helped bring it to the public, allowing these uncompromising narratives to be shown without altering AFP's journalistic vision.   Captured through the lenses of AFP photographers and journalists across the entire region, the project features nine women photographed in their own surroundings. It is a deeply collaborative effort by AFP's local contributors across the Balkans, united by a shared commitment to documenting these intimate realities on their own terms. ➡️ Access the full press release via the link in the comments

👔 Job opportunity – Service Desk Technician (London) AFP is currently seeking a Service Desk Technician to join its London bureau. You will work in a fast‑paced, international newsroom environment, providing day‑to‑day IT support for PCs, Macs, mobile devices, networks and office systems, while assisting and training users on business and communication tools. ➡️ For more information, see the link in the comments.

📰 Press Release - Shefali Khan and Aakash Gulzar: Winners of the Marai Photo Grant 2026 Announced Chaired by Candida Ng, AFP Asia-Pacific photo director, the jury selected four young photographers from South Asia from dozens of candidates. This year’s theme was “My reality. Now. Water scarcity!”, highlighting one of the defining issues of our time. The winners of the 5th edition are: 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 • Winner: Shefali Khan • Finalist: Bhavi Jariwala 𝗠𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 • Winner: Aakash Gulzar • Finalist: Md Sofiqul Islam   Congratulations to the winners and finalists. An awards ceremony will be held at AFP’s New Delhi office, where each will receive Nikon equipment. The two winners will have the opportunity to develop their projects with guidance from AFP photographers. Their work will also be published by AFP. This grant honours Shah Marai, AFP’s former chief photographer in Kabul, who courageously documented Afghanistan’s tragedies and left a lasting mark on the profession. He described the extreme dangers of reporting in his country in a post on the Correspondent’s website, which provides a behind-the-scenes look into the news. Shah Marai tragically lost his life in a suicide bombing in Kabul on 30 April 2018 at the age of 41. 🔗 Link to the press release in the comments.

✍️ Job opportunity - Correspondent in Taipei AFP is currently seeking a dynamic and highly motivated English-language reporter to join its Taipei office. You will be working in a fast-paced environment delivering precise, clear and well-written copy in several formats, including breaking news, reportages, features and in-depth angles, telling the story of Taiwan to a global audience. You will cover an exciting range of stories from domestic politics and defence, cross-strait geopolitical tensions, and the semiconductor industry, to the effect of climate change and the evolution of Taiwanese society, most importantly its youth. 🔗 For more information, follow the link in the comments.

🎥 Job opening - Video journalist in Bangladesh AFP is currently seeking a dynamic, self-starting Bengali and English-speaking video journalist for its Dhaka bureau. You will be working in a fast-paced environment alongside text and photo colleagues, as well as the bureau chief in AFP’s Dhaka bureau to help produce compelling, varied and accurate coverage to tell the story of Bangladesh to a global audience. For more information, follow the link in the comments.

The biggest fact-checking team of the world (afaik) looks back at 2025: https://lnkd.in/eZnwgU3T The Annual Report of AFP's digital investigations unit documents the great work Julie Charpentrat and her team deliver every day. Most interesting stat for me: AI-related investigations are the single most covered topics, making up 11% of their total output. The report also mentions the many ways in which AFP works together with the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). Thanks a lot for the great cooperation, Marie Bohner, Christine Buhagiar, Catherine Lehmann!

📰 PRESSE｜Livres Hebdo salue le partenariat inédit entre les Éditions Cercle d'Art et l’AFP 👉 Nous sommes ravis de partager la parution d’un article annonçant notre partenariat avec l'Agence France-Presse, dans Livres Hebdo. Ce partenariat historique, révélé par Louise Ageorges, marque la rencontre de deux institutions emblématiques du patrimoine visuel. 📚 Une collection ambitieuse : deux premiers volumes, consacrés aux années 1980 et 1990, paraîtront en octobre. Chaque ouvrage, fabriqué en France, mêlera images inédites et textes signés par des experts, pour un voyage immersif à travers les grandes décennies du XXe siècle. « Il y a une volonté forte de valoriser ce fonds incroyable », souligne Thomas Vivien, directeur de Cercle d’Art. 🔍 L’excellence au service de l’histoire : cette collection s’appuie sur un travail minutieux d’exploration des archives, de numérisation et de sélection d’images, parfois jamais publiées. Un projet qui s’inscrit dans la volonté de Cercle d’Art de valoriser le fonds exceptionnel de l’AFP avec cette collection originale, de six livres déjà prévus, qui sera aussi accompagnée d'autres titres tels qu'un ouvrage consacré à Paris ou au photographe d'exception Eric Schwab. 📖 Lire l’article complet : Livres Hebdo, 20 avril 2026 https://lnkd.in/esw_82Gh #cercledart #AFP #livreshebdo #livres #patrimoine Thomas Vivien Jerome Martin Grégoire Lemarchand Bastien Forato Axelle Hautbout Élisa Bénard Marie Dussaussoy Sophie Ribot

🌏 INVESTIGATION - AFP and The Gecko Project have revealed how timber grown atop cleared Indonesian rainforest entered the supply chain of a company making “carbon-neutral” packaging. Asia Symbol’s “carbon-neutral” products were used by pharmaceutical giant Haleon, which said it was cutting ties with the company in response to the investigation’s findings. Indonesia has some of the world’s highest forest loss, and timber plantations identified in the investigation deforested an area nearly three times the size of Paris between 2016 and 2024. The investigation used satellite analysis, government audit documents, trade records, ship-tracking and open-source data to trace timber from Indonesia to China. AFP reporters also spoke to residents affected by the deforestation, who described losing their land and suffering increased flooding as a result. The reporting underscores how deforestation continues to insinuate international supply chains despite growing sustainability pledges. 🖋️ Sara Hussein and The Gecko Project 📸 Bay Ismoyo, Greg Baker, Satya Adhi and Agatha Cantrill. 👉 Get a free trial of AFP News to access the investigation (see link in the comments).