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CAPE

THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER OF PARIS

Le Cape, le centre de presse international de Paris

The Foreign Press Center, set up 2001, hosts, guides, and arranges meetings with the French and foreign press in Paris.

The center is situated in the south wing of the Grand Palais, Cours la Reine, opposite Pont Alexandre III. Journalists have a fully equipped press room with 17 computers on the garden level, and on the ground floor, a large and luminous area, including a conference room with seating for around one hundred people and a bar that serves light food. There is also a 104 seat auditorium fully equipped for projecting films with top of the range digital equipment.

The CAPE is a public interest group. This structure promotes partnerships between professional journalists’ associations, the media and the public sector. Its members include around twenty French and foreign journalists’ associations, television and radio, and several ministries that provide the bulk of the funding.




Missions

Welcoming foreign journalists
Organizing conferences and press events

The Center informs journalists about sources of information: the government, public sector, principal economic institutions, social, cultural and tourist institutions. CAPE’s other essential mission is organizing press conferences given by French or foreign figures on all matters relating to international or national current affairs.

The Center regularly hosts meetings and periodic assemblies of the various foreign press associations in France or players in the information world, and is a pleasant venue for meetings and exchanges between journalists.

Since it was set up, CAPE has organized over 2000 conferences and press briefings on the major national, European and international issues. Speakers are decision-makers from the world of politics and the economy, civil society figures, NGO directors, designers, sports people and writers as well as analysts, observers and high level experts

Services

Foreign correspondents: Cape's Offer

On presentation of a press card from a foreign media, journalists can make use of a press room from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays*.

* Hours may be reduced in August and on the eve of some public holidays

A space for communicating with the french and foreign press

A special venue for meetings with French and foreign press, CAPE offers a full range of services and facilities for organizing meetings with the national and international media.

CAPE provides high powered professional equipment to optimize the comfort and effectiveness of presentations during press briefings or private meetings.

CAPE organize meetings with the press and places at your disposal

  • A press officer
  • Distribution of press invitations by email to an up to date French and foreign press list
  • An announcement of your event on www.capefrance.com
  • A welcome service for participants
  • Audio and / or video recordings of your event
  • Publication of photos or video extracts on the website immediately after the conference

Press officers

Space hire

CAPE also hires its spaces to business and communication agencies that wish to organize private or public relations events

Head of special events

Practical Information

Working space

  • 17 open access work stations
  • AFP Wire
  • Professional printers
  • Multifunction photocopier with fax and scanner
  • Open access WiFi

Auditorium - Grand Palais projection room

  • Capacity : 104 seated
  • CinéAlta 4K HD digital projector
  • Switcher / scaler, all analogue sources
  • 564 cm screen with automatic lateral framing
  • Audio broadcast 5.1
  • Electromagnetic induction loop for people with hearing impairments
  • Rostrum with HF microphones
  • Audio broadcast for press recorders

Cape Space - Conference room

  • Capacity : seats around one hundred
  • A rostrum + platform (5 people maximum)
  • 3 standing microphones + 2 HF micros
  • Mobile sound system (with audio mp3 recording)
  • Press box at the back of the room for journalists
  • Laptop computer
  • 2 plasma screens (102 cm) + VGA connection
  • Projector + mobile screen 170 x 170 cm
  • Open access WiFi
  • Possibility of organising breakfasts and cocktail parties in this area

Download documentation

CAPE Catalog

Diary of press conferences

Does anonymous birth protect the life and the physical and mental health of the child?

Tuesday 22 May 2012 at 12:00

Does anonymous birth protect the life and the physical and mental health of the child?

Le Conseil Constitutionnel a examiné le jeudi 10 mai la question prioritaire de la constitutionnalité de l'accouchement anonyme. Sa décision devrait être rendue publique ce lundi 21 mai.

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Contacts

Centre d’Accueil de la Presse Etrangère

Foreign Press Center - Paris

Grand Palais - Cours la Reine - Perron Alexandre III
75008 Paris - France
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Phone : 01 53 76 90 60 – Fax : 01 53 76 90 63
E-mail : communique@capefrance.com

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