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AFP launches paid-for iPhone app

Laura Oliver — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:44:52 +0000

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has release a paid-for application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Costing $1.99 to download, the app will offer multimedia news reports from AFP in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

Interestingly, the agency has also created a mobile opportunity for its clients with this launch. AFP customers can adapt the app with their branding and content – and French news org La Depeche du Midi as already done this with the launch of its iPhone app last week.

Related reading: The AFP’s not the only news organisation going for the iPhone market…

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WashingtonPost: Abducted French security advisers in Mogadishu posed as journalists

Judith Townend — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:54:40 +0000

“Two French security advisers posing as journalists were abducted from their hotel in Mogadishu on Tuesday by Somali gunmen, according to the foreign ministry and reports from the chaotic Somali capital,” reports the Washington Post. Full story at this link…

Related:

The Frontline Blog ran this post yesterday, updating as news broke.

The AFP reports that, according to the Somali defence minister, the pair were ‘kidnapped for cash not politics’.

Background from the Frontline:

“The Telegraph’s Colin Freeman and photographer José Cendón were kidnapped and held for six weeks earlier this year. Meanwhile, freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan after still being held hostage after being kidnapped in Mogadishu in August, 2008. Their driver and fixer were released in January, 2009. This new kidnap comes at a time of ‘fresh fighting’ in the north of Mogadishu, although one could argue fighting never really gets the time to go stale in Mogadishu.”

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Media Release: AFP and Getty agree video partnership

Laura Oliver — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:16:26 +0000

Agreement will allow the agencies to market their video footage in English. Agencies already partner on images.

Full release at this link…

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Economist.com: Will newswires learn to live without newspapers?

Laura Oliver — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:37:21 +0000

News agencies are boosting staff numbers, according to this Economist report – is this a sign they can thrive will newspapers struggle?

Full story at this link…

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British and Spanish journalist kidnapping in Somalia – details still to be confirmed

Judith Townend — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:08:45 +0000

Although reports with additional information are available online, exact details of the journalists kidnapped in Somalia remain unconfirmed. Articles that name the journalists have been removed from various news sites.

BBC yesterday reported:

“A British and Spanish journalist in Somalia have been kidnapped from the north-eastern Puntland region, local authorities say.

“Government officials said the pair were taken from their hotel in the port city of Bossasso.

“(…) the journalists were in Bossasso to cover the story of piracy hijackings off Puntland’s coast. He says the foreigners were abducted by gunmen along with two local reporters.

“‘The two foreigners are British and Spanish,’ Abdulkebir Musa, Puntland’s assistant minister for seaports, told news agency AFP.

“The office of Puntland’s president confirmed this information to the BBC.”

Journalism.co.uk will update when further reports are received from the relevant sources.

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AFP: AFP launches news site in South Korea

Laura Oliver — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:35:26 +0000

Korean-language site AFPBB.co.kr will ofer news, entertainment and sport content from the agency and local providers. The launch is a direct way for the AFP to reach consumers in contrast to its usual 'wholesale' approach, a release from the agency said.

AFP: Al Jazeera launching rights watchdog headed by Sami al-Haj

Judith Townend — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:20:43 +0000

Marking Al Jazeera's 12th birthday, a new Public Liberties and and Human Rights Desk will be launched, headed by its cameraman Sami al-Haj who spent six years at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay.