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🏆 AFP Wins Gold for Best in Sport Photography at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards 2024, in Singapore. The winning photo, taken by Mohd Rasfan during the MotoGP™ Malaysia Grand Prix 2023, captures riders avoiding Manuel Gonzalez after a crash. Rasfan, who has been with AFP for over 11 years, captured this moment at Sepang International Circuit. APAC Regional Director Michael Mainville accepted the award on Rasfan’s behalf.    During the “Journalism That Matters” session at the summit, Mainville highlighted AFP’s dedication to providing complete and objective reporting, focusing on human stories that resonate with audiences on critical issues like the planet’s future and the digital world. WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers

📢 AFP is looking for a Connected World and Tech Business Reporter 📍 Location: Taipei City 🖊 Type of contract: permanent 📅 Start date: January 2nd, 2025 👉 More info: u.afp.com/jobsEN #jobs #journalism

AFP returns to Hong Kong Baptist University campus for digital investigation boot camp AFP Fact Check journalists ran a two-day workshop on digital investigation techniques, supported by the Google News Initiative, for more than 60 students at Hong Kong Baptist University. The training sessions – held on October 30 and November 1 -- saw mostly undergraduate and postgraduate journalism students learning digital investigation techniques from AFP’s online training platform (➡️ u.afp.com/DC). The participants practiced basic and advanced techniques for sourcing and verifying online information, discovered tools for fact-checking Chinese content, as well as learning tips for tackling election disinformation ahead of the US presidential poll. The workshop was led by AFP’s regional training manager Sophia Xu, digital investigation editors Zoe ZiQing Low and Jeff Li, digital investigation journalist reporter Tommy W., with support from Rachel Blundy, AFP’s head of digital investigation for Asia-Pacific. They shared some recent case studies and hands-on exercises from real news stories in Asia-Pacific and the US. Undergraduate student Oscar Ma said: “In this boot camp, we’ve got many additional resources and programs for us to fact-check through applications which I didn’t know before. It’s quite interesting to know how to use them in detail to check locations and whether they used AI. It’s also very useful because we have to fact-check when reporting elections and conflicts.” Robin Ewing, senior lecturer at HKBU’s Department of Journalism, said students “really benefited” from the in-depth workshops, which followed a successful bootcamp in 2022. “You’re teaching up-to-date tools which is great, but I think the most important part is really hammering home that mindset of verification that is so essential to journalism,” she said.

🇺🇸 On Tuesday, we will be on the ground in all 7 swing states - Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 🗳️ Dozens of our journalists will also be in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and in Florida.

✨ Topshots of the week - A selection of some of the most striking #photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (26 October - 1 November, 2024). 👉 https://u.afp.com/5rWZ 📸 Pictures by Amid Farahi, Jose Jordan, Franck Fife, Terje Pedersen, Rodrigo Buendia, Ulises Ruiz, Sameer Al-doumy. #photography #photojournalism

[EPISODE 23] "Death was everywhere": reporter Mai Yaghi recounts how she covered the ongoing war in Gaza while living there, until she was evacuated in February 2024, as part of our interview series to mark AFP’s 80th anniversary. #AFP80Years Maya Szaniecki, Margarita Govorine, Chloé Rabs

[EPISODE 22] "How can you do that to civilians? How can you massacre people?": photojournalist Jack Guez explains how he covered Hamas's unprecedent attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, as part of our interview series to mark AFP’s 80th anniversary. #AFP80Years Margarita Govorine & Chloé Rabs

[EPISODE 21] "I'd like to think that, at this crucial moment in the world's efforts to deal with climate change, that we helped contribute to the global conversation" : AFP reporter Joshua Berger, explains how he led an investigation into the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, as part of our interview series to mark AFP’s 80th anniversary. Margarita Govorine & Chloé Rabs

✨ Topshots of the week - A selection of some of the most striking #photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (19 October - 25 October, 2024). 👉 https://u.afp.com/5KNC 📸 Pictures by Drew Angerer, Christophe Simon, Charism Sayat, Charly Triballeau, Bashar Taleb, Maxim Shemetov. #photography #photojournalism

📢 AFP is looking for a Correspondent 📍 Location: Hong Kong 📅 Start date: December 2nd, 2024 👉 More info: u.afp.com/jobsEN