Correspondent

‘Stalin is dead’: the story behind the scoop

3 March 2023

AFP was the first to bring the news of Stalin’s death to the world when the Soviet leader died suddenly 70 years ago

Turkey quake: a father’s pain

Adem Altan 9 February 2023

This is the story of the AFP photograph that caught the unbearable pain of the Turkish earthquake – a father holding the hand of his dead daughter as she lay crushed in the rubble. A month on from the catastrophe, we caught up with Mesut Hancer and his grieving family

How AFP caught up with ‘The Serpent’

Atish Patel 3 January 2023

Video journalist Atish Patel tells how AFP scooped the world’s media to interview ‘The Serpent’, the notorious serial killer who preyed on tourists on the hippie trail across Asia

AFP / Aris Messinis
AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
AFP / Aris Messinis
AFP / Dimitar Dilkoff
AFP / Bulent Kilic
AFP / Alexander Nemenov
AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
AFP / Bulent Kilic
AFP / Bulent Kilic

Ukraine: the battle to report the war

16 December 2022

The ever-present danger is far from the only obstacle AFP journalists have to overcome to cover Europe’s worst conflict since World War II

Who killed Paul Guihard?

Laurent Kalfala, David Lory, Frederic Bourgeais 30 September 2022

Exactly 60 years ago AFP reporter Paul Guihard was murdered as white rioters protested against the University of Mississippi admitting its first Black student. He was only the journalist killed covering the US civil rights struggle, and mystery still surrounds his death

About AFP

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives. Drawing from an unparalleled news gathering network across 151 countries, AFP is also a world leader in digital verification. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world in six languages, with a unique quality of multimedia storytelling spanning video, text, photos and graphics.