Agence France Presse
Wire Service | Mainstream
 
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. It is also the largest French agency and the third largest news agency in the world, behind the Associated Press and Reuters. The agency is based in Paris, with regional centres in Washington, Hong Kong, Nicosia and Montevideo and bureaux in 110 countries. It sends out news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Russian. AFP was founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas as Agence Havas. More » (SourceWikipedia)
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Audience Very large audience (1M or more) (French)
Formats News Report, Special Report, Poll, Interview, News Analysis | International
Politics Neutral (64%), Center (18%), Right (9%), Not Sure (9%) (11 reviews)
Authors AFP Staff, Agence France Presse, Stephen Collinson, Jitendra Joshi, P. Parameswaran, Hassan Abdul Zahra, ROBIN McDOWELL, (no author named)...
Media Wire Service, Online | Publication
Owners Nonprofit Organization | Managers: Pierre Louette
Quality Tags Impartial, Newsworthy, Balanced, Clear, Not Impartial
Story Tags mccain, slums, urban poverty, world, america, anti smoking, anti-semitism, canada, department of energy, energy...
Research
Location 13, Place de la Bourse, Paris (France)
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Editorial
Reviewed by Fabrice Florin, Mike LaBonte, Kaizar Campwala, Dwight Rousu, Ara Gregorian, Mark Monday...
Edited by Fabrice Florin, David Fox, Kaizar Campwala
Last Edit Nov. 9, 2006
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Our Rating
average rating is 3.41
3.4 avg. from 284 reviews
(123 trust ratings)


Trust
average rating is 3.78

Overall
average rating is 3.41

Accuracy
average rating is 4.03

Balance
average rating is 2.94

Context
average rating is 3.36

Evidence
average rating is 3.36

Fairness
average rating is 3.66

Importance
average rating is 3.93

Information
average rating is 3.61

Sources
average rating is 3.59

Style
average rating is 3.31


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Number of Sources
2

Anonymous Sources
1

Number of Viewpoints
2

Opinions as Facts
0

Number of Stakeholders
2

Stakeholders Quoted
1

Derogatory Words
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