It is a « Feather rare » and a talent for performance “Atmospheres” This is what the 85th Albert Londres Prize wanted to crown: the Belgian Wilson Fache won the most prestigious award in French-language journalism on Monday.
Wilson Fache, a 31-year-old independent journalist, was selected for his reports on Afghanistan (published in French newspapers). Release and Belgian litter), at the Tel Aviv bus station (published in the French magazine Movement) and to Ukraine (litter).
First Belgian winner
To commemorate the organizers, this is the first time in 90 years that a Belgian has won in the first category, the printed press. In addition, Hélène Lam Trong was awarded the 39th audiovisual prize for her documentary film “Daesh, the ghost children” (broadcast on France 5), about the children of French jihadists growing up in Syria.
Finally, Nicolas Legendre was awarded the 7th Book Prize “Silence in the fields” (Ed. Arthaud), Investigation of the Breton agricultural industry. To mark the 90th anniversary of the prize, the jury of former prize winners met in Vichy, the birthplace of Albert Londres (1884-1932), the father of great modern reporting.
The prize named after him was first awarded in 1933 and went to a certain Emile Condroyer for his reports in the daily newspaper The newspaper. Ninety years later, the jury welcomed the 2023 « Feather rare » by Wilson Fache, his “Talent of Evocation” You know “Ability to transport your audience into atmospheres”.
Three independent journalists honored
“I’m not an investigative or hot news journalist, but a reporting, story-telling journalist.”who likes to depict “Atmospheres”, declared the winner to -. The independent journalist Wilson Fache reports for numerous media outlets (RTBF, RFI, Release, The Orient – The DayRTS, RTL…).
“The three winners this year are three independent journalists: that makes us proud, because we are the most precarious profession that has been destroyed by the press crisis.”, greeted the journalist. After ten years of journalism, he said he hoped this prize would make his work easier: “I live freelance, on commission, and I won’t leave” on a particular country “If I don’t have enough orders” Newspapers.
