Behind reporting: Meet the Albert Londres Prize laureates
Behind reporting: Meet the Albert Londres Prize laureates
Culture

Tue. November 3, 6:30PM

Behind reporting: Meet the Albert Londres Prize laureates

Winners of "the French-speaking Pulitzer" share the risks, choices and curiosity behind their work, in conversation with the prize's president.

Fieldwork, the confrontation of facts, meeting and observing: these define the work of reporting. In a media landscape shaped by disinformation, manipulation and growing public distrust, reporting remains one of journalism's most demanding forms, and one of the ways democracy is safeguarded.


Each year, the Albert Londres prize, the most prestigious honour in French-speaking journalism, recognises young reporters in print, audiovisual documentary and literature for the quality of their work.

Following the winners’ announcement on 27 October, TheMerode welcomes this year’s laureates, Bruno Meyerfeld, Brice Lambert, and Arthur Sarradin, alongside Hervé Brusini, the prize’s president, for a conversation on reporting and the weight of a free press.


Moderated by Wilson Fache, reporter and recipient of the 2023 Albert Londres Prize, the discussion will move between the celebrated work of this year's laureates and the demanding, often solitary nature of reporting, before turning to the current media climate and why recognising the commitment, independence and rigour of reporters particularly matters.


©photo: Albert Londres et archives

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Hervé Brusini

Hervé Brusini is a French journalist, former director of digital information at France Télévisions. He has made a significant impact on the audiovisual landscape through his commitment to rigorous and accessible journalism. As president of the Albert Londres Prize since 2019, he works to promote non-fiction literature and in-depth reporting.

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Bruno Meyerfeld

Bruno Meyerfeld has just been awarded the 88th Prix Albert Londres for print journalism. He is a French independent journalist whose reporting moves between environmental change and the human lives it reshapes. As Le Monde’s correspondent in Brazil, he spent years in some of the most remote reaches of the Amazon, writing about Indigenous peoples whose worlds are disappearing within a single generation. His work has also taken him to Kenya, South Sudan, Lebanon and Easter Island, for outlets including Le Nouvel Obs, Mediapart and Radio France. His prose is attentive and quietly lyrical, yet it never looks away from violence.

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Brice Lambert

Brice Lambert has just been awarded the 42nd Prix Albert Londres for audiovisual journalism. He is a French reporter and documentary maker drawn to the places where politics becomes personal. Trained at the CUEJ journalism school in Strasbourg, he has written and directed reportage from Ukraine, the United States, Israel, Zimbabwe, Laos, Kenya and Myanmar, and has worked for Libération, France Télévisions, Slate, Canal+ and Society. His films tend to look past the headline figure towards the climate that produces it, examining how ideology and fear settle into ordinary life. His approach is direct without being sensational, closer to listening than to argument.

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Arthur Sarradin

Arthur Sarradin has just been awarded the 10th Prix Albert Londres book prize for Le Nom des ombres, on Syria’s network of detention centres. He is a French journalist and Middle East correspondent for Libération, Radio France, TF1/LCI, Paris Match and Belgium’s RTL, among others. A graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, he reports from close range, moving between radio, television and print with a writer’s ear for language. His work is drawn to testimony, to the voices that outlast systems designed to silence them, and has been compared to the witness literature of Svetlana Alexievitch and Primo Levi.

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Wilson Fache

Wilson Fache is a freelance reporter with ten years of experience covering conflicts. A former correspondent in Iraq (2015-2018) and Palestine (2018-2019), he also covered the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, he was awarded the Albert Londres Prize, the highest French journalism award.
Start
Tue. November 3, 6:30PM
End
Tue. November 3, 9:00PM
Format
TheMerode Talks
Language
French (BE) / Français (BE)
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