About Catherine Triomphe

TRIOMPHE, CATHERINE is deputy managing editor for Agence France Presse, one of the three major wire services, with 1.300 full-time journalists around the world. Her responsibilities include evaluating journalists’ job performance and training needs. She is also involved in defining the company’s strategy. ?She is a native of the Alsace region, and started her university studies in Paris before coming to Berkeley to study journalism in 1986. ?She started off covering federal courts for the Wilkes Barre Times Leader (Pennsylvania), then moved on to a business reporting position in Paris before moving to Russia, where she joined the Agence France Presse Moscow bureau shortly after the fall of the USSR. After four years she came back to the AFP headquarters in Paris, was news editor for the business desk before joining the new AFP video reporting department, where she retrained as a video reporter. She then moved on to become editor-in-chief of the AFP Brussels bureau before taking on her current position. She keeps a strong interest for Russia and the ex-USSR, languages, swimming and books.

• Was accepted for Jun 13-17 2011 Web 2.0 Training.

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