Agence France-Presse, also known as AFP, is a privately owned company headquartered in France. Originally founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas as Havas, it employs approximately 4940 individuals and reported $362.1M in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in content rights, functioning as a tier 1 media tech buyer. It was reorganized in its current form in August 1944, following the Liberation of Paris, to succeed Havas. It operates as a global news agency, aligning with entities such as the Associated Press and Reuters, with an emphasis on editorial independence and neutrality.
Journalists at Agence France-Presse's (AFP) offices in Istanbul, Türkiye, plan to strike on July 6, 2026, for a pay rise after four months of collective bargaining negotiations failed to produce an agreement addressing Türkiye’s double-digit inflation rate. This follows an announcement on July 1 that AFP management intends to implement a retirement incentive plan to cut 70 jobs, with departures expected between December 2025 and April 2026. The agency will not replace the departing staff, and management has not provided a plan to ensure the public interest mission or avoid workload overload, though staff representatives are set to vote on the plan on September 26. On June 30, AFP won a top fact-checking award at Global Fact 12 for a package of stories by Manila-based reporters Ara Eugenio, Jan Cuyco, and Lucille Sodipe, with editor Nattakorn “Tii” Ploddee. Their work exposed a network of decoy news sites that peddled false narratives and misrepresented visuals on social media to generate ad revenue. Earlier on June 30, Agence France-Presse selected Generation Technologies Corporation (GTC) to be a North American content distribution partner for television news syndication, utilizing GTC’s NIMxchange service to distribute breaking news video content to US television newsrooms.
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Agence France-Presse's revenues were less than $500M in 2025. All the revenue comes from entertainment rights and distribution.
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