The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. 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:

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* 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

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for ''Russie de Staline'' - Ed. Elvézir * 1948: Pierre Voisin, ''

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'' * 1949: Serge Bromberger, ''Le Figaro'' * 1950: Alix d'Unienville for ''En vol'' -

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* 1951: Henri de Turenne for ''Retour de Corée'' -

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* 1952: Georges Menant, ''

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'' * 1953: Maurice Chanteloup, ''Le Figaro'' * 1954:

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* 1955: Jean Lartéguy, ''

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'' * 1956:

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'' * 1957: René Puissesseau, ''

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'' * 1958: Max Olivier-Lacamp, ''Le Figaro'' * 1959: Jean-Marc Théolleyre, ''

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'' * 1960: Jacques Jacquet-Francillon, ''Le Figaro'' * 1961: Marcel Niedergang for ''Tempête sur le Congo'' - Ed. Plon * 1962: Max Clos, ''Le Figaro'' * 1963: Victor Franco for ''Cuba, La révolution sensuelle'' -

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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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'' * 1967: Jean Bertolino, '' La Croix'' * 1968: Yves Cuau for ''Israël attaque'' -

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* 1969: Yves-Guy Bergès, ''France Soir'' * 1970: Philippe Nourry, ''Le Figaro'' * 1971: Jean-François Delassus for ''Le Japon : monstre ou modèle'' - Hachette * 1972:

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, ''Sud Ouest'' and Pierre Bois (''Le Figaro'') * 1973: Jean-Claude Pomonti, ''Le Monde'' * 1974: François Missen, '' Le Provençal'' * 1975: Thierry Desjardins, ''Le Figaro'' * 1976: Pierre Veilletet, ''Sud Ouest'' * 1977: François Debré for ''Cambodge, la révolution de la forêt'' - Flammarion * 1978: Christian Hoche, '' L'Express'' * 1979: Hervé Chabalier, ''

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'' * 1980: Marc Kravetz, '' Libération'' * 1981: Bernard Guetta, ''Le Monde'' * 1982: Christine Clerc for ''Le Bonheur d'être français'' - Grasset * 1983: Patrick Meney, AFP * 1984:

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'' * 1985: Alain Louyot, '' Le Point'' * 1986: François Hauter, ''Le Figaro'' * 1987:

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, ''

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'' * 1988: Sorj Chalandon, ''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:

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, '' Le Point'' * 1993: Philippe Broussard, ''Le Monde'' * 1994: Dominique le Guilledoux, ''Le Monde'' * 1995: AFP's

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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 ''Libération'' * 1999: Michel Moutot, AFP, New York * 2000: Anne Nivat ''Ouest-France'', ''Libération'', ''Chienne de guerre'', Ed.

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* 2001: Serge Michel * 2002: Adrien Jaulmes, ''Le Figaro'' * 2003: Marion Van Renterghem, ''Le Monde'' * 2004: Christophe Ayad, ''Libération'' * 2005: Natalie Nougayrède, ''Le Monde'' * 2006:

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, ''Le Figaro'' * 2007: Luc Bronner, ''Le Monde'' * 2008: Benjamin Barthe, ''Le Monde'' * 2009:

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, ''XXI'' * 2010: Delphine Saubaber, ''L'Express'' * 2011: Emmanuel Duparcq, AFP, Islamabad, Pakistan * 2012: Alfred de Montesquiou ''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''

Audiovisual

* 1985: Christophe De Ponfilly and Bertrand Gallet for ''les Combattants de l'insolence'' * 1986: Philippe Rochot for his reporting about

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* 1987: Frédéric Laffont for ''la Guerre des nerfs'' * 1988:

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for ''Barbie, sa deuxième vie'' * 1989: Denis Vincenti and Patrick Schmitt for ''les Enfants de la honte'' * 1990: Gilles de Maistre for ''J'ai 12 ans et je fais la guerre'' * 1991: Dominique Tierce, Hervé Brusini and Jean-Marie Lequertier for ''l'Affaire Farewell'' (

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) * 1992: Lise Blanchet and Jean-Michel Destang for ''le Grand Shpountz'' (

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, ''

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'') * 1993: Jean-Jacques Le Garrec for ''5 jours dans Sarajevo'' (

, ''Journal de 20h'') * 1994: Florence Dauchez for ''Rachida, lettres d'Algérie'' ( les Films d'ici for

) * 1995:

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for ''Voleurs d'yeux'' ( Planète, M6) * 1996: Patrick Boitet and Frédéric Tonolli for ''les Seigneurs de Behring'' (

) * 1997: Claude Sempère for ''Envoyé spécial : La Corse'' (

) * 1998: Catherine Jentile and Manuel Joachim for ''Chronique d'une tempête annoncée'' ( TF1) * 1999:

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and Nicolas Glimois for ''les Blanchisseuses de Magdalen'' (

, Sunset presse) * 2000: Rivoherizo Andriakoto for ''les Damnés de la terre'' ( C9 Télévision, les Films du cyclope) * 2001:

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for ''Seule avec la guerre'' ( Movimento for

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) * 2002:

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and

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for ''la Justice des hommes'' (Maha productions) * 2003: Bertrand Coq and Gilles Jacquier for ''Naplouse'' (

) * 2004:

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for ''S21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge'' (Arte, INA) * 2005: Grégoire Deniau and Guillaume Martin for ''Traversée clandestine'' (

) * 2006: Manon Loizeau and Alexis Marant for ''La Malédiction de naître fille'' ( Capa for

, TSR and SRC) * 2007: Anne Poiret, Gwenlaouen Le Gouil and Fabrice Launay for ''Muttur : un crime contre l'humanitaire'' (

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) * 2008: Alexis Monchovet, Stéphane Marchetti and Sébastien Mesquida for '' Rafah, chroniques d'une ville dans la bande de Gaza'' (Playprod and System TV for

) * 2009: Alexandre Dereims for ''Han, le prix de la liberté'' (Java films and Première nouvelle for

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 ''Öffentlichkei ...

) * 2010: Jean-Robert Viallet for ''La mise à mort du travail'' (

) * 2011: David André pour ''Une peine infinie, histoire d'un condamné à mort'' (

) * 2012: Audrey Gallet et Alice Odiot pour ''Zambie, à qui profite le cuivre ?''. * 2013: Roméo Langlois pour ''Colombie : à balles réelles'' (

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). * 2014: Julien Fouchet, Sylvain Lepetit and

Taha Siddiqui Taha Siddiqui is a Pakistani journalist based in Paris. He is the alumnus of Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and a winner of the Albert Londres Prize. He is also founder of the ''SAFE Newsrooms''. In January 2018, in Islamabad gu ...

for ''La guerre de la polio'' (

). * 2015: Delphine Deloget and Cécile Allegra for ''Voyage en barbarie'' (

). * 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 ?'' (

). * 2018 : Marjolaine Grappe, Christophe Barreyre et Mathieu Cellard, pour ''Les hommes des Kim'' (''Les hommes du dictateur''). (

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

{{Reflist * ''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

External links

Albert Londres Prize
French journalism awards Awards established in 1932 1932 establishments in France