Paul Lonceint-Spinelli, winner of the 2023 RFI Charles-Lescaut Prize

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The jury for the “RFI Charles-Lescaut Prize” met on Thursday April 6 and named Paul Lonceint-Spinelli, winner of the 2023 edition. He obtained a one-year contract with the RFI editorial staff.

Aged 22, Paul Lonceint-Spinelli is finishing his Master’s degree in journalism, radio specialization, at the Institute of Journalism of Bordeaux Aquitaine (IJBA).

The four finalists, pre-selected on file by a first jury, presented a complete 10-minute diary with sound elements and a short report illustrating a recent news event. They were then interviewed by a jury made up of journalists from France Médias Monde.

The jury particularly appreciated the quality of Paul Lonceint-Spinelli’s radio writing, but also his taste for presentation and the place he gives to the role of presenter within a radio editorial staff.

“The Charles Lescaut Prize”, organized since 1997 by RFI, offers each year to a student in journalism school a one-year contract within the editorial staff of world radio. Candidates for the prize are proposed by fourteen recognized French journalism schools: the Center de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ), Sciences Po Paris, the Institut Pratique de Journalisme (IPJ), the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences de la Communication and of Information (CELSA), the French Press Institute (IFP), the Graduate School of Journalism of Lille (ESJ), the School of Journalism and Communication of Marseille (EJCAM), the Public School of Journalism of Tours , the IUT of Lannion, the Institute of Journalism of Bordeaux Aquitaine (IJBA), the School of Journalism of Toulouse (EJT), the University Center for Teaching Journalism of Strasbourg (CUEJ) the School of Journalism of Grenoble (EJDG) and the Cannes School of Journalism (EDC).

This Journalism Prize was created in tribute to Charles Lescaut, reporter for RFI and the newspaper The worlddisappeared in 1989.

► The 2023 Charles-Lescaut Prize jury was made up of:

  • Liza Chaboussantpresident of the jury, General Secretary of the RFI editorial staff,
  • Frederique MisslinDeputy Director of RFI, in charge of World News,
  • Laurent Correaueditor-in-chief of RFI’s Africa service,
  • Emmanuelle Klotzdeputy editor-in-chief at RFI,
  • Adrian Delgrange, presenter of the newspaper in easy French on RFI,
  • Maya SibliniAssistant to the Director in charge of the Arabic-speaking branch of F24
  • Stephane BallongAfrica editor of F24

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