Claude Moisy

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Claude Moisy (born in France in the 20th century ) is a French journalist and author .

Life

Moisy began his journalistic career at what is now France's highest-circulation daily newspaper, Ouest-France . He then worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) press agency for 35 years . He worked for the agency in Rangoon in Burma , New Delhi in India , London and Washington, DC in the USA . In Washington he collected material about the Watergate affair and wrote a book about the case of the US President Richard Nixon . From 1990 to 1992 he was President of Agence France-Presse. During these years he initiated the internationalization of the agency, introduced new technologies and reduced costs within the agency during these years of the economic crisis in France.

After leaving AFP, Moisy became Head of Administration for Reporters Without Borders . In autumn 2009 he defended AFP's statutes against attacks from outside with a letter to the editor in the French daily Le Monde .

Publications

  • La Burmania . Editions Rencontre, 1963.
    • German by Kurt Jung: Burma . Series: The Book of Journeys No. 16, Éditions Rencontre, Lausanne 1964.
  • Nixon et le Watergate: La chute d'un président , 1994 ( La vie quotidienne ).
  • L'Amérique sous les armes . 1970.
  • Foreign News Flow in them Information Age . John F. Kennedy School of Government , Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1996.
  • L'Amérique en marche arrière ´. Éditions Hachette, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-01-235172-7 .
  • John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) , Éditions J'ai lu, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-290-33568-1 .
  • Le citoyen Genêt . La révolution française à l'assaut de l'Amérique . Private, Toulouse 2007, ISBN 978-2-7089-5003-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Moisy, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH France