Topic: Pierre Louette

Agence France-Presse on Monday named Philippe Massonnet as its new global news director with a mission to oversee the international news agency's evolution to a fully integrated multimedia operation.Massonnet, a former Beijing bureau chief and China specialist, takes over the ...

AFP chief proposes transforming agency financing

AFP chief executive Pierre Louette proposed Tuesday transforming the international news agency into a public company with state-controlled capital.In a report delivered to the French government, Louette also suggested the new company be placed under the supervision of a foundation that ...

AFP to boost mobile phone content services

Agence France-Presse will add mobile phone information services in Arabic, German and Portuguese in 2009 as it seeks to further boost revenues from the key new sector, agency chairman Pierre Louette said. "Turnover in the mobile sector has doubled in 24 months ...