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. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C., and news bureaus in 151 countries in 201 locations.

Although there are many news agencies around the world, four global news agencies, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), Reuters and United Press International (UPI) have offices in most countries of the world, cover all areas of information, and provide the majority of international news printed by the …

1835, Paris, France
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The French Agence France-Press (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. It was started 1835 in Paris as Agence Havas and one of its early employees was a certain Paul Reuter. Today it is one of the three largest English-language news agencies, together with AP and Reuters.

Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP), French cooperative news agency, one of the world’s great wire news services.

A State or local agency of similar qualifications or, when the effects are on a reservation, an Indian Tribe, may by agreement with the lead agency become a cooperating agency.

AFP stands for alpha-fetoprotein. It is a protein made in the liver of a developing baby. AFP levels are usually high when a baby is born, but fall to very low levels by the age of 1. Healthy adults should have very low levels of AFP. An AFP tumor marker test is a blood test that measures the levels of AFP in adults.

Here, we list the top 10 largest publicly traded news media companies by market cap as of November 2020.

• 1) News Corp.
• 2) The New York Times Company.
• 3) Daily Mail and General Trust plc.
• 4) Sinclair Broadcasting Co.
• 5) E. W. Scripps.
• 6) Tribune Media Co.
• 7) Daily Journal Corporation.
• 8) Gannett Co. Inc.

Agence France-Presse has its origins in the Agence Havas, founded in 1835 in Paris by Charles-Louis Havas, making it the world’s oldest news service. The agency pioneered the collection and dissemination of news as a commodity, and had established itself as a fully global concern by the late 19th century.

According to the information provided by the agency’s website, thematically infographics have the following distribution: 31% – politics, 27% – economics, 18% – sports, 12% – society, 10% – general news, 2% – culture and media. Infographics are available in 6 languages: French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and German.

On 10 December 2009, the French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand announced that he was setting up a Committee of Experts under former AFP CEO Henri Pigeat to study plans for the agency’s future status.