The 86th Albert Londres Prize will be awarded in Paris and not in Beirut as planned

Created in homage to the father of great modern reporting, the prize is awarded 5,000 euros for each of the winners – written press, audiovisual and books – who must be under 41 years old.

The jury of the Albert Londres prize, which rewards the best French-speaking written and audiovisual report of the year, has reluctantly given up on awarding, as planned in October, the 2024 prizes in Beirut, and will present them on December 4 in Paris , announced the association on Tuesday October 1, 2024.

“It is in Beirut that we would have liked to announce the preselection” journalists’ filesbut recent events force us to modify our project”, specifies the association. “Our solidarity, our friendship, our esteem accompany a country which is so close to us, and all those who, thanks to their journalistic commitment, allow us to know, see and understand”, continues the press release.

Created in 1933 in homage to the French journalist (1884-1932), father of great modern reporting, the prize is endowed with 5,000 euros for each of the winners, who must be under 41 years old. The Albert Londres association has revealed the list of articles, films and books pre-selected for the 2024 edition, out of 111 applications.

For the 86th written press prize, were chosen: Romain Boulho (Release), Julie Brafman (Release), Romain Colas (AFP), Lorraine de Foucher (The World), Julien Gester (Release), Guillaume Pajot (Geo, The Cross, Release, M the magazine of the World) and Arthur Sarradin (Release).

For the 40th audiovisual prize, Antoine Izambard and Nolwenn Le Fustec were selected for China: covert operations (France Télévisions), Maxime Priou and Arthur Rayssiguier for Brazil: the clown of cracolandia (Arte reportage), Martin Boudot, Mathilde Cusin and Manon de Couët for Green with Rage Series (France 5), Solène Chalvon Fioriti and Mortaza Behboudi for We, the youth of Iran (France 5), and Antoine Védeilhé and Germain Baslé for Philippines: the little convicts of gold (Arte reportage).

For the 8th book prize, Étienne Bouche was nominated for Memorial to Russian oppression. The fight for the truth (Ed. Plein Jour), Clara Marchaud for Such a long February. Intimate history of the war in Ukraine (Ed Plein Jour), Camille Vigogne Le Coat for Raptors (Les Arènes) and Martin Untersinger for Spy, lie, destroy – How cyberspace became a battlefield (Grasset).

Last year, Belgian journalist Wilson Fache won the writing prize for his articles on the Tel Aviv bus station, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Hélène Lam Trong was distinguished for her documentary Daesh, the ghost children (broadcast on France 5) and Nicolas Legendre won the book prize for Silence in the fields (Arthaud editions).