Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse   (Corporate media)
Headquarters	Paris, France

Not to be confused with American Free Press, which can also be abbreviated AFP.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. It is one of the 3 agencies (together with Reuters and Associated Press) that dominates international news. Agency reports from these 3 are the basis for maybe 80% of international news in corporate media.

The CEO in 2020 is Fabrice Fries, the Global News Director is British Phil Chewynd.

 

A Document by Agence France-Presse

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Canada PM Justin Trudeau’s government in crisis after minister quits over corruption probe	Article	13 February 2019	Justin Trudeau Meng Wanzhou Jody Wilson-Raybould SNC-Lavalin Great Man-Made River Project	A Canadian minister’s sudden resignation on 12 February 2019 turned vague allegations of interference in the criminal prosecution of an engineering giant into a deepening political crisis for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Norbert Häring	“A fact-checking scene coordinated from the United States, paid for by the EU and supported by the federal government ensures that all media are supplied with narrative-faithful agency reports on important topics, which they disseminate, and remain true to the narrative prescribed from above in their own reports and comments. From this point of view, it also explains why the fact checks are often so openly tendentious and the arguments are borderline retarded. It's not primarily about convincing someone with these fact checks. Its main function is to announce to the media landscape what are the topics on which a narrative must be respected and what this narrative is.”	Norbert Häring	June 2024
John Laughland	“People experience a strong psychological reluctance to accept that political events today are deliberately manipulated. This reluctance is itself a product of the ideology of the information age, which flatters people’s vanity and encourages them to believe that they have access to huge amounts of information. In fact, the apparent multifarious nature of modern media information hides an extreme paucity of original sources, rather as a street of restaurants on a Greek waterfront can hide the reality of a single kitchen at the back. News reports of major events very often come from a single source, usually a wire agency, and even authoritative news outlets like the BBC simply recycle information which they have received from these agencies, presenting it as their own.”	John Laughland	2010

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Hubert Beuve-Mery	Company Director	1970	1978	Attended Bilderberg 1970

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Propaganda Multiplier	media analysis	2016	Swiss Policy Research

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