David Millikin appointed North America Sales and Marketing Director
Brings long North America experience to developing AFP’s regional business.
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Brings long North America experience to developing AFP’s regional business.
The European Commission has selected global news agency AFP following a public bid to participate in three European hubs aimed at fighting disinformation in France, Eastern Europe and the Benelux countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
MediaConnect, an AFP subsidiary, will offer an innovative service that will facilitate and simplify relations between journalists and public relations professionals from businesses, institutions and NGOs.
At its meeting on 14 April 2021, AFP’s Board of Directors approved the accounts for the 2020 financial year, the second year of implementation of the Agency’s transformation plan and of the new “Contract of objectives and means” that governs its relationship with the French State until 2023.
With the launch of fact-checking operations in Bulgaria and Hungary in March 2021, following Romania in November 2020, AFP has consolidated its position as the world’s leading agency in digital investigation.