ABOUT Us
The AFP Foundation is a non-profit-making organisation set up by Agence France-Presse, one of the three global news agencies. Its primary aim is to provide training to journalists in developing countries.
The Foundation has a distinct identity under French law and operates with its own budget. Its administrators and most of its trainers are experienced journalists working on secondment from the parent agency.
The Board Of Governors
The Director
Our mission
The AFP Foundation exists in the belief that independent and responsible media can help people make informed decisions about their lives and thus contribute to reducing poverty and defending human rights. The Foundation will seek, through the training it provides, to raise professional standards and to promote press freedom.
The AFP Foundation supports efforts to improve the working conditions of journalists and the protection of those working in combat zones and other dangerous areas, especially freelance reporters and photographers. It also supports efforts to elevate the status of women in the news media.
in memoriam : Peter Mackler
J.S. Tissainayagam, a Sri Lankan reporter, is the first winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, which honours the memory of one of the original board members of the AFP Foundation.
On August 31, Mr Tissainayagam was jailed for 20 years on charges of supporting terrorism.
The award was made by the Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which issued a statement saying:
"This country (Sri Lanka) needs journalists who are determined and concerned with finding the truth. J.S. Tissainayagam is one of those and should never have been imprisoned. Sri Lankans have the right to be informed about what is happening on their island."
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Second round of World Cup 2010 media training
The Foundation's programme to train more than 300 African football journalists resumed on December 5, a day after the 2010 FIFA World Cup draw was made in host country South Africa.
next...Beirut workshop promotes objective war reporting
The United Nations Development Programme commissioned the AFP Foundation to run a four-day workshop on objective war reporting in Beirut in November 2008.
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