The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist
Albert Londres
Albert Londres (1 November 1884 – 16 May 1932) was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, Londres not only reported news but created it, and reported it from a personal perspective. He criticized ab ...
. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...
. Three laureates are awarded each year. The three categories are : "best reporter in the written press", "best audiovisual reporter" and "best reporting book".
History
On the death of Albert Londres, on 16 May 1932, his daughter, Florise Martinet-Londres, decided to create an award in his memory. From 1933, the Albert Londres prize is awarded every year on May 16, to a young journalist under the age of forty.
Florise Martinet-Londres died in 1975. The Albert Londres Prize is administered by the Association of Albert Londres Prize, comprising the various winners. Chaired for 21 years by Henri Amouroux, it is chaired since May 2006 by Josette Alia. The prize is awarded by a jury of 19 journalists and winners of the previous year. In 1985, under the influence of Henri de Turenne, also a director, a prize was created for the audiovisual documentary. Since then, the association has been administered by the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors (SCAM), a grouping of authors of documentaries. In 2017, a prize was created for the "best reporting book".
Laureates
Written word
* 1933: Émile Condroyer
* 1934: Stéphane Faugier
* 1935: Claude Blanchard
* 1936: Jean Botrot
* 1937: Max Massot
* 1938: Jean-Gérard Fleury
* 1939: Jacques Zimmermann
* 1946: Marcel Picard for ''J'étais un correspondant de guerre'' - Ed. Janicot
* 1947: André Blanchet for ''Débarquement à Haïphong'' - Ed. Dorian and Dominique Pado for ''Russie de Staline'' - Ed. Elvézir
* 1948:
Pierre Voisin
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As a reporter for ''Paris-Midi'' from 1933, he took part to the Second World War, first in the 2nd Armored Division, then in Senegal, Morocco and Corsica. He participated to Operation Dra ...
, ''
Le Figaro
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Alix d'Unienville
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D'Unienville was born in Mauritius to a wea ...
Le Dauphiné libéré
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History and profile
Founded in 1945, it takes the name from the former province of ...
Jean Lartéguy
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Paris-Presse
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It was created by Philippe Barres (1896-1975), with Ève Curie (1904-2007), daughter of Marie Curie. They ran the newspaper until 1949.Claude Bellanger, ''Histoi ...
René Puissesseau René Puissesseau (25 September 1919 – 7 July 1970, Siem Reap) was a French journalist and chief reporter working for the ORTF.
For a long time he headed the political service of ''France-Soir''
In 1957, he received the Albert Londres Prize for ...
Max Olivier-Lacamp Max Olivier-Lacamp (March 2, 1914 Le Havre – June 17, 1983 Meudon) is a French journalist and writer, winner of the Prix Renaudot in 1969, and Albert Londres Prize in 1958.
Biography
Max Olivier, also known as Max-Olivier Lacamp, was a repo ...
, ''Le Figaro''
* 1959:
Jean-Marc Théolleyre
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Biography
*1943: Resistant in Lyon and then in Toulouse, he was arrested and deported to Buchenwald for nearly two years and was released in 1945.
*N ...
, ''
Le Monde
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''
* 1960: Jacques Jacquet-Francillon, ''Le Figaro''
* 1961: Marcel Niedergang for ''Tempête sur le Congo'' - Ed. Plon
* 1962:
Max Clos
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Prizes
*1962 : Prix Albert-L ...
, ''Le Figaro''
* 1963:
Victor Franco
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* 1964: José Hanu for ''Quand le vent souffle en Angola'' - Ed. Brepols
* 1965: Michel Croce-Spinelli, Sagipress
* 1966:
Yves Courrière
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Biography
As a child Courrière read Albert Londres, Oscar Wilde and became passionate about adventure stories. As a journa ...
, ''
Nice Matin
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History and profile
''Nice-Matin'' was created in 1944. The paper was j ...
''
* 1967:
Jean Bertolino
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Biography
A former student at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris (class 1959–1961), a senior reporter and war correspondent, Bertolino worked for ...
, ''
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* ''La Croix'' (newspaper), a French Catholic newspaper
* La Croix Sparkling Water, a beverage distributed by the National Beverage Corporation
La Croix or Lacroix may also refer to:
Places
* Lacroix-Barrez, a munic ...
Jean-François Delassus Jean-François Delassus (born 1942) is a French journalist and documentaries director. He has been working for France Inter and Europe 1 and was Far East correspondent for '' Le Figaro''.
Distinctions
* 1971: Prix Albert-Londres fo''Le Japon : ...
Pierre Veilletet
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Biography
From 1968 to 2000, Veilletet worked for the daily French newspaper '' Sud Ouest'', and became their chief reporter in 1973. In ...
, ''Sud Ouest''
* 1977:
François Debré
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Biography
The second son of Prime Minister Michel Debr ...
Le Matin de Paris
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Patrick Meney
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Le Point
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History and profile
''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...
Jean-Paul Mari
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Sorj Chalandon
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Biography
Chalandon grew up in Lyon with his parents and brother. His father was intensely paranoid and violent, making his family life difficult. When Chalandon was ...
, ''Libération'' and Samy Ketz (AFP)
* 1989: Jean Rolin for ''La ligne de front'' - Ed Quai Voltaire
* 1990: Yves Harté, ''Sud Ouest''
* 1991: Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, ''Le Figaro''
* 1992:
Olivier Weber
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, ''
Le Point
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History and profile
''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...
''
* 1993: Philippe Broussard, ''Le Monde''
* 1994: Dominique le Guilledoux, ''Le Monde''
* 1995: AFP's
Moscow
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bureau (Jean Raffaelli, Boris Bachorz, Marielle Eudes, Paola Messana, Catherine Triomphe, Stéphane Orjollet, Sebastian Smith, Bertrand Rosenthal and Isabelle Astigarraga)
* 1996: Annick Cojean, ''Le Monde''
* 1997: Caroline Puel, ''Libération'', ''Le Point''
* 1998:
Luc Le Vaillant
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Biography
The son of a general practitioner and a mother professor of Italian and French, he is the eldest ...
''Libération''
* 1999: Michel Moutot, AFP, New York
* 2000:
Anne Nivat
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''Ouest-France'', ''Libération'', ''Chienne de guerre'', Ed.
Fayard
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In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayar ...
* 2001:
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Sophie Bouillon
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Biography
She worked as a correspondent based in Johannesburg from 2008 to 2013 for ''Libération'', ''Courrier International'' and Radio Télévision Suisse in particular, before worki ...
Alfred de Montesquiou Alfred de Montesquiou (born 1978) is a contemporary French people, French reporter, author and documentary film director. He is a laureate of France's highest journalism prize, the Prix Albert Londres.
Biography
Born in 1978 in Paris, Alfred de ...
''Paris Match''
* 2013: Doan Bui, ''Le Nouvel Observateur''
* 2014: Philippe Pujol, ''La Marseillaise''.Albert Londres : des journalistes de « La Marseillaise » et d'« Envoyé spécial » primés sur lemonde.fr, 12 May 2014
* 2015: Luc Mathieu, ''Libération''.« Luc Mathieu, Cécile Allegra et Delphine Deloget remportent le prix Albert-Londres » ''Le Monde'', 30 May 2015.
* 2016: Claire Meynial, ''Le Point''.
* 2017: Samuel Forey, ''Indépendant''
* 2018: Elise Vincent, ''Le Monde''
* 2019: Benoît Vitkine, ''Le Monde''.
* 2020 : Allan Kaval ''Le Monde''
* 2021 : Caroline Hayek, ''L’Orient-Le Jour''
* 2022 : Margaux Benn ''Le Figaro''
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Mythology
According to ...
Planète
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, M6)
* 1996: Patrick Boitet and Frédéric Tonolli for ''les Seigneurs de Behring'' ( France 3)
* 1997: Claude Sempère for ''Envoyé spécial : La Corse'' ( France 2)
* 1998: Catherine Jentile and Manuel Joachim for ''Chronique d'une tempête annoncée'' ( TF1)
* 1999: Christophe Weber and Nicolas Glimois for ''les Blanchisseuses de Magdalen'' ( France 3, Sunset presse)
* 2000: Rivoherizo Andriakoto for ''les Damnés de la terre'' ( C9 Télévision, les Films du cyclope)
* 2001: Danielle Arbid for ''Seule avec la guerre'' (
Movimento
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Recording
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Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
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Early life and education
Lestrade was born in Mirande, Gers, in southwestern France. He studied law and journalism in Paris, and ...
Rithy Panh
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for ''S21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge'' (Arte, INA)
* 2005: Grégoire Deniau and
Guillaume Martin
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Career
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. While not necessarily considered a pre-race favourite for overall victory ...
for ''Traversée clandestine'' ( France 2)
* 2006: Manon Loizeau and Alexis Marant for ''La Malédiction de naître fille'' ( Capa for Arte, TSR and SRC)
* 2007: Anne Poiret, Gwenlaouen Le Gouil and Fabrice Launay for ''Muttur : un crime contre l'humanitaire'' ( France 5)
* 2008: Alexis Monchovet, Stéphane Marchetti and Sébastien Mesquida for '' Rafah, chroniques d'une ville dans la bande de Gaza'' (Playprod and System TV for France 5)
* 2009: Alexandre Dereims for ''Han, le prix de la liberté'' (Java films and Première nouvelle for
Public Sénat
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* 2010: Jean-Robert Viallet for ''La mise à mort du travail'' ( France 3)
* 2011: David André pour ''Une peine infinie, histoire d'un condamné à mort'' ( France 2)
* 2012: Audrey Gallet et Alice Odiot pour ''Zambie, à qui profite le cuivre ?''.
* 2013: Roméo Langlois pour ''Colombie : à balles réelles'' (
France 24
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Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Mo ...
).
* 2014: Julien Fouchet, Sylvain Lepetit and Taha Siddiqui for ''La guerre de la polio'' ( France 2).
* 2015: Delphine Deloget and Cécile Allegra for ''Voyage en barbarie'' (
Public Sénat
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichke ...
).
* 2016: Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale & Étienne Huver, for ''Disparus, la guerre invisible de Syrie'' (Arte)''.''
* 2017 : Tristan Waleckx & Matthieu Rénier, pour ''Vincent Bolloré, un ami qui vous veut du bien ?'' ( France 2).
* 2018 : Marjolaine Grappe, Christophe Barreyre et Mathieu Cellard, pour ''Les hommes des Kim'' (''Les hommes du dictateur''). ( Arte).
Book
* 2017 : David Thomson, ''Les Revenants'' (Seuil, 2016).
* 2018 : Jean-Baptiste Malet, ''L'Empire de l'or rouge. Enquête mondiale sur la tomate d'industrie'' (Fayard, 2017).
References
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* ''Grands reportages : les quarante-trois prix Albert Londres 1946-1989'', Seuil, 1989
* Jan Krauze, Stéphane Joseph, ''Grands reporters Prix Albert Londres : 100 reportages d'exception de 1950 à Aujourd'hui'', Les arènes, 2010
* ''Grands reportages : les films du prix Albert Londres (1985 - 2010, 10 DVD)'', Editions Montparnasse, 2010