Patrice Monti gets promotion at AFP

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has promoted Patrice Monti to director of sales and marketing; he will replace Stéphane Marcovitch. He joined AFP earlier this year as the deputy director of sales and marketing.

Prior to the AFP, he held the position of international sales VP at the New York Times International Edition, part of the New York Times Company. He joined the New York Times in 2000 as advertising director for the International Herald Tribune and then successively took the positions of European circulation director followed by circulation managing director.