Agence France-Presse appoints Otton deputy global EIC, two journos join his team

The following excerpt was sent out from Editor & Publisher: Chris Otton, a journalist with a distinguished international career, started this week as the deputy to the editor-in-chief of Agence France-Presse, Sophie Huet. Otton, a 52-year-old British journalist, first worked in London for the press association and later joined the AFP Asia-Pacific desk in Hong […]

AFP econ journalist Gillison set to depart

After three and a half years, Douglas Gillison is leaving the economics desk at the Washington bureau of Agence France-Presse to become a senior investigator at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization that tracks dirty money tied to atrocities and corruption in Africa. Prior to AFP, Gillison covered human rights, white-collar crime and law […]