Press agency AFP appoints David Millikin to lead Sydney bureau

February 7, 2017 8:53

International news agency Agence France-Presse has appointed David Millikin to head its Sydney bureau.

Millikin is set to front the Sydney desk

Millikin originally joined AFP in 1983 as an editor in Hong Kong before he moved to the English desk in Paris one year later, and then to Washington for four years.

In 1999 he moved back to Paris working as deputy english desk chief and carrying out the same role in Jerusalem before being appointed Sydney bureau chief in 2002 and then state department correspondent.

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Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.