Journalist grant
Selection criteria
Must be 30 years of age or younger, be a practising freelance print journalist, and present two published reports.
Must have an original idea for a current affairs report, in France or abroad, relating to a cultural, social, economic or political issue.
2007
Manon Quérouil has never been afraid of the unknown. Having passed her baccalaureate exams with flying colours in Rouen, she embarked on an intensive university foundation course in the prestigious Lycée Henri IV ...
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2006
Marie Barraud has always been surrounded by stacks of newspapers. She decided to become a journalist at age 11, when the Berlin Wall fell. Somewhat compulsively, she clipped, sorted and filed everything she could read on the topic...
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2005
SPECIAL AWARD
Originally from the Savoy region of France, two years ago this journalist with a passionate interest in Africa moved to Tangiers, Morocco, to pursue her professional interests...
2005
When she learned at the age of 10 that you couldn’t study to become a writer, Cecile Bontron decided to become an ace reporter instead. With her secondary school diploma in hand, she left Montpellier...
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2004
He had always wanted to be a diplomat, but when he arrived in France Luc Olinga developed an obsession to become a journalist. Armed with a diploma from ISCPA...
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2003
Her friends knew it all along: Camille Dattée was made to be a journalist. She didn’t believe them at first, but followed their advice. It all started while she was studying for her master’s degree in history...
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2002
So many factors seemed to predispose Pauline Simonet to embark on her account of the emigration of women from sub-Saharan Africa, notably from Rwanda and Burkina Faso: not just her mixed-race background...
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2001
When you already have an Indonesian university diploma in oriental languages and are writing a doctoral thesis at the School of Political Science in Paris on the subject of "Contemporary piracy at sea in Central Asia", you are spoiled for choice...
2001
SPECIAL AWARD
Michel Leroy has been passionately in love at least once in his life: with Laos. A graduate of France's elite school of journalism, ESJ, who has worked on France-Culture, La Voix du Nord, and Le Figaro...
2000
For Ariane Singer, it's a source of a regret: standing out from the crowd is not easy for a young journalist. In these days of the "headlong rush for information", producing an "in-depth" report feels like a luxury that's reserved for a few seasoned professionals...
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2000
General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay lasted 35 years, a period about which very little is known. There are few articles from the newspapers of the day, apart from some brief items announcing that the "President" had been re-elected...
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1999
As a high school student, Guylaine Idoux-Colin obtained a scholarship to study in the United States. When she returned to France, she studied at the Political Science Institute in Bordeaux...
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1999
Thanh Huyen Dao was born in 1969 in North Vietnam amidst American bombings, 15 years after Dien Bien Fu. That did not prevent her from learning French at secondary school, and later at university...
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1998
When she was only 16, France Harvois decided to become a journalist so that she could write and travel...
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1997
Marie Hélène Martin is a freelance journalist on the editorial teams of such varied publications as Nouvel Observateur, Notre Epoque, Libération and Vital, among others...
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1995
Christine Thomas has been awarded the print journalist prize at the international festival of French-speaking sports reporting for Carnets d'Afghanistan...
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1995
After earning a DESS degree in public law in Montpellier, Anne Crignon started out in a leadership role at an environmental association. Having dreamed of becoming a legal columnist since she was 12...
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1994
If you want to see a sparkle in Pierre-Julien Quiers’s eyes, just say the word “travel!” With a baccalaureate under his belt, he left for London, where he earned a degree in politics...
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1993
After graduating from journalism school in Paris, Judith Rueff was working as a freelancer when she was awarded a Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant. “It’s very stimulating to be a freelancer. You have to find ideas for articles.”...
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1992 (en)
For what reason would a Christian from Israel, Jordan or the West Bank one day decide to abandon his country, and its historical roots, and emigrate? A subject that Georges Malbrunot was able to examine thanks to the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant...
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1992 (en)
With a grandmother who was a member of the Supreme Soviet, Stéphane Edelson dreamed of being an international political figure. Law would form the basis for everything, he went to university and afterwards worked as a legal advisor for Club Med...
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1991 (en)
With an English mother and a French father, who met in Norway and a childhood in Alsace…What could possibly make Laura Dejardin more European? The answer is …nothing!
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1991 (en)
Isabelle Mandraud always wanted to be a journalist. Recruited at 23 years old by the Stratégies Group, Isabelle had a much stronger driving passion, which prevented her from staying in one place...
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1990 (en)
In 1989, Pol Pot, the Khmer rouge tyrant, disappeared. Following in the footsteps of Pol Pot is only an underlying theme, for Marc Victor...
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