The Francophone Public Media Grand Prize rewards the best report of the year

With this Francophone Public Media award, each year, five reports are presented and judged by an international jury of listeners. Beyond the competition, it is the exercise of reporting that is here recognized as opening up to the world and understanding the realities on the ground.

Radio France listeners sent in their application throughout November to become a member of the jury. The choice is based on a principle of parity between men and women, the differences between generations and places of residence. 20 listeners from Radio France are invited, 20 from RTBF, 20 from Radio Canada, 20 from RTS, 20 from RFI.

This jury listens to the 5 reports, and the story of the authors who recapitulate the context and behind the scenes of their work. Like every year, the level is high.

Radio Canada takes us to the Far North, in the footsteps of a young Inuit woman, in search of her biological family, she who was adopted in Montreal. It is the discovery of another life in the great cold of the long winter night in its binaural.

RFI: reporting in the rubble of Haitian schools, after the earthquake of August 14, 2021, in the south of the peninsula.

In Haitian society, the school is a temple, a prospect for the future of children, the place where one comes to take refuge when a cyclone hits. So when a school is on the ground, and nothing is done for the meeting, it is the economic lung of Haiti that is affected.

Radio France looks back on the night of November 13, 2015 through the recordings of calls made to the Samu switchboard. Calls for help, communication between police, firefighters, crisis unit, ambulance and hospital coordination.

In total, it is 13 hours of recording, on the 5 telephone lines, that the Samu has entrusted to franceinfo. A public archive for memory.

RTBF with “The word of a violent man” by Safia Kessas and Mathieu Neuprez, scans a violent man who hit his wife. How do you become a violent man?

A testimony on a descent into hell and the will to get out of it. Stéphane speaks into the microphone next to his therapist. A sensitive topic, as victims’ voices become free, abusers must also understand what led them into acts of violence, against those they are supposed to love.

And the RTS goes to a laboratory in Freiburg. In February, the Swiss will vote. A referendum on whether or not to continue experiments on animals for scientific research and health.

In the laboratory visited, the work focuses on addiction with macaques, open skulls, implants in the brain, which are studied to measure the reaction to the drug.