The climate crisis is not just a reporting challenge—it is a leadership challenge. In an era where the stakes for humanity are unprecedented, real change in how we cover the climate crisis must star...
Phil Chetwynd
Phil Chetwynd is the Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP). He leads a newsroom of 1,700 journalists based in over 150 countries. Phil has been responsible for AFP's editorial strategy prioritizing on-the-ground human storytelling in multimedia formats, the development of a world-class video service and an award-winning pivot on climate coverage. He has also made AFP a leading voice in the battle against misinformation.
During a long career at AFP, Phil occupied the posts of Global Editor-in-Chief and Chief Asia Editor. He was also a foreign correspondent working in Asia and the Middle East. He began his career in British regional newspapers.
Events IJF 2025
AFP photojournalist Christina Assi nearly died when she was hit by Israeli tank fire while reporting in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023. The attack killed her Reuters colleague and friend Issam A...
Mental Health and Wellbeing for Journalists: a Practical Guide was published in 2024, at a time when the levels of stress and pressure faced by many of our colleagues need to be taken far more serious...
Three quarters of the journalists who died in 2023 were Palestinians killed by Israel during the Israel-Gaza war. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more journalists died in the first ...
Extreme polarization and trolling, uninhibited racism and anti-Semitism, large-scale disinformation: journalists have been saying for months that they're going to leave ... but everyone is still on X,...
In Afghanistan, where the Taliban's tightening grip on media freedoms poses unprecedented challenges, Amu TV stands out as a critical source of independent news and entertainment for the Afghan people...
Newsrooms are inundated with metrics for reach, attention, and engagement – but how do they assess the social impact of their journalism? This panel, proposed by the World Editors Forum, will go bey...
Editors talk about climate change as the defining story of our times – but many of them don’t act on it as much as they could. This panel will present and discuss findings from the March 2023 EBU ...
The need for digital provenance: how the Content Authenticity Initiative is addressing mis/disinformation
Join executives from AFP, the BBC and the VII Photo Agency to discuss the problem of mis/disinformation and how their organizations are tackling it, including through their membership of the Adobe-led...
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has become a major international actor in the war against disinformation with fact-checking operations now involving 70 journalists working in 30 countries and 10 languages ...
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