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Jane Goodall has a double in Paris
Jane Goodall, world expert on chimpanzees and militant ecologist, answered questions from AAPA members on December 1 2023 just before her waxwork figure was unveiled at the Musée Grévin. Goodall realized early on in her long career as an ethologist—she will be 90 next April—that saving chimpanzees and other wildlife was not possible without protecting the environment in which they live.…
AAPA breakfast meeting with Tony Estanguet, Paris Olympic Committee
The Paris Olympic Committee invited the AAPA to a breakfast meeting with Committee President Tony Estanguet at their headquarters on Thursday, October 12, for a briefing on the state of play less than a year before the 2024 summer Olympics. A slalom canoeist, Estanguet served France’s flagbearer at the Beijing games and is the first French athlete to win three gold medals in three…
The War in Ukraine…18 Months On
The former Swiss Intelligence officer turned contrarian author spoke to the AAPA on the eve of the English language translation of his latest book, Ukraine Between War and Peace. "The West is a victim of its own narrative" Baud claims, concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. But he never answered our questions about what the West got wrong in that narrative concerning…
France’s State of Emergency Has Huge Economic, Social Costs
It cannot enforce its recommendations, but the French government’s human rights advisory body has been vocal and sometimes effective in criticizing such hot-button subjects as France’s ongoing state of emergency, the fate of migrants, and the right of Muslim women to wear head-to-toe covering burkinis on public beaches, its head says. For Christine Lazerges, a professor of penal law at Sorbonne…
ESA Briefs AAPA on Mars Exploration Plans
Next month, the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli module is scheduled to land on Mars, the first stage of a landmark mission to determine whether there is evidence of life on the red planet, a group of AAPA members learned on Sept. 14. The joint ESA-Russian Roscosmos project will pave the way for a second mission in 2020 to dig for life under the surface. If successful, the Oct. 19 landing…
AAPA Rounds off 2015 with a Convivial AGM
Close to 30 AAPA members converged on the Marais on Dec. 14 for another convivial Annual General Meeting. This was the last to be presided over by President John Keating, who has served an unprecedented four-year stretch at the helm of the association. He thanked all of those who have worked hard to bring in more members, exciting guests - we had a record 18 last year - and preserve the solid…
Journalists Have a Future, Publicis CEO Tells AAPA
“There is such a profusion of information out there today, such a big news flow, that we need to be served by professionals,” Publicis Groupe Chairman and CEO Maurice Levy told two dozen AAPA members on Nov. 6. “In the last decade there has been a profusion of blogs and communications from ‘citizens,’ all co-producing news. This trend is now being reversed. The tide has turned. There have been…
AAPA’s AGM Sets a Road Map for the Future
Making the AAPA more socially relevant to its members was the main theme of our 2014 Annual General Meeting, held on Dec. 17 once again chez John Morris, our doyen member. Opening the meeting, President John Keating reported to some 30 participants that the AAPA had had another successful year, noting that membership had expanded, we remain in robust financial shape, and our activities are…
Move to Digital Prompts IHT Name Change to INYT
Three weeks before the scheduled death of the International Herald Tribune and its resurrection as the International New York Times, Richard Stevenson, the paper's last editor, received some 20 members of the Anglo-American Press Association to explain the decision to rebrand the 126-year-old Paris-based institution. The meeting, which took place at the IHT offices in La Defense, was also…
AAPA Gets a Peek Behind the Curtain at Mediapart
Some 30 AAPA members were given a fascinating insight into the philosophy behind the French on-line investigative newspaper Mediapart, in a lively two-hour discussion with Mediapart's founder Edwy Plenel on May 15. During the meeting, which took place in Mediapart's editorial offices in the 12th arrondissement, Mr. Plenel outlined what had motivated him to create the fast-growing publication…