The French-speaking public media (MFP) radio journalism prize recognizes each year the best treatment of a current event, the best investigation or the best report on a social event presented by the editorial staff of the five MFP member media: RFI , Radio France, RTBF, Radio-Canada and RTS.
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The five recordings preselected for the final competition are presented to the public on the sites of MFP member radio stations. Watch the special program broadcast on RFI on November 25, 2024. The results will be announced on December 8, 2024, at the end of the deliberations of the listeners’ juries.
The order of presentation of the reports and their appearance on the airwaves is established by a draw at the general secretariat of the MFP.
Discover the competition reports
“ Iran: these young people who no longer want the compulsory veil »
From the affluent streets of northern Tehran, to the university district and the offices of a presidential advisor, this report attempts to show the persistence of the revolt of Iranian women against the law of the Islamic Republic, their courage striking, despite the fierce repression. It also attempts to depict Iranians in their daily lives, when political resistance takes the simplest forms: dressing as you wish in the street, criticizing the government in public at the microphone of a journalist. In a regional context where the news of the conflict between Israel and Iran sometimes tends to put the Iranian population in the background, erased by the declarations of the military, it seemed important to me to give a voice back to these women and men. men in the shadows of the regime.
Iran: these young people who no longer want the compulsory veil – Timour Ozturk
“ A man in search of his origins »
Quebec is very slowly lifting the veil on adoption archives, shrouded in the greatest secrecy for decades. From the 1920s to the 1970s, babies born out of wedlock were entrusted to nurseries run by nuns, while waiting to find an adoptive family. The weight of the Catholic Church created a climate of shame for mothers. They lived with this secret their whole lives. But these grown-up children now want to know. This is the case of Jean-Luc Danis, 65, who embarked on a desperate quest to know his father’s name, after obtaining that of his mother, too late to see her again during her lifetime. Supported by his wife and guitar and singing companion, he experiences checkered emotions as he advances, because the quest for origins does not only reserve good surprises.
A man in search of his origins – Myriam Fimbry
► RFI
“ Israel-Palestine: the story of two children cut down by war »
Two little girls: Hind Rajab, Palestinian from Gaza, and Noya Dan-Jaoui, Israeli from a border kibbutz in the enclave. Two stories of children cut down by war with part of their families. The two little girls are dead: one killed by the Israeli army, the other shot dead on October 7 by Hamas. One thing in common: sound recordings document their last moments of life. Sami Boukhelifa spoke with the mother of each of them.
Israel-Palestine: the story of two children cut down by the war – Sami Boukhelifa
► RTBF
“ Pass-ages: being born and dying in serenity »
Being born and dying, the beginning and the end… Two moments, two essential passages linked to our existence. Two passages often experienced very differently. Birth is by definition a joy, experienced together, while death is often experienced alone, at home or in the hospital. Faced with this observation, an innovative project was created in Brussels. It is unique in Europe, and it allows birth and dying, the process which precedes death, to be put back at the center of existence. This project is called pass-ages in two words. Pass-ages works in collaboration with hospitals and palliative care services. It offers a caring place, run by the volunteers who live in this group housing, to accompany the beginning and end of a life as peacefully as possible. Françoise Wallemacq and Christophe Bernard went there. They first met a couple there who wanted to give birth to their child in this different place.
Pass-ages: being born and dying in serenity – Françoise Wallemacq and Christophe Bernard
► RTS
“ Voice note from Kharkiv »
Western security services speak of a gloomy outlook for Ukraine this year. Major territory losses. kyiv does not release figures, but hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have already lost their lives since the start of the large-scale war. Russian troops are advancing. And the front is approaching Kharkiv. The country’s second city suffers a continuous flow of bombs. Ukraine is forced to mobilize to make up for the gigantic losses.
Our correspondent on site Maurine Mercier went to Kharkiv. She regularly sends voice notes to Éric Guevara-Frey, the presenter of Tout un monde, the international current affairs show on RTS Première. In these voice notes, she reports on the life of Ukrainians. This reached Eric on the night of May 31 and was broadcast the same morning. Maurine talks about the bombs which are hitting the city more and more, as well as the recruitment.
Voice note from Kharkiv – Maurine Mercier