Cécile Mégie (Director of RFI): applications for the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon 2021 scholarship
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Cécile Mégie, editorial director of RFI © RFI
By: David Baché
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Monday August 16, applications for the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon scholarship open today.
This is the eighth edition of this scholarship which trains ten young journalists and radio technicians from French-speaking Africa each year.
An award that bears the name of our colleagues murdered in 2013 while they were reporting in Kidal, in northern Mali.
The selected candidates will first be trained for one month, then the scholarship winners will then be welcomed in Paris, to continue their training within the editorial staff of RFI.
How to try your luck?
Cécile Mégie, editorial director of RFI, explains everything to you.
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For those who wish to apply, visit our website on the dedicated page
www.rfi.fr
RFI: For the second year in a row, due to the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon scholarship is not organized in a given country.
Indeed this year again, and you said it for health and organizational reasons, we cannot choose a country and tell ourselves that by the end of November 2, we will have organized the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon scholarship. in homage to our two murdered reporters.
Once again this year, we decided that the stock exchange is open to 25 countries.
So, against bad luck, 25 countries in French-speaking Africa may be concerned by this call for applications, which targets young professionals, journalists and technicians.
It was not possible to imagine going to one country or another and not being sure of its continuation.
Among these young professionals, can you remind us who can apply?
Applications are open from Monday August 16 until September 12 to all journalists and technicians from 25 French-speaking African countries who have been active for at least two years, and who will be under 35 at the time of their application. .
Those interested will find all the information on the
RFI website
.
These young people will be selected.
Ten journalists, ten technicians, to participate in our training which will take place from October 4 to 22.
What does this training actually consist of?
It consists of perfecting themselves, since they are young journalists and young technicians already in activity, but who, on certain tools, on certain reporting methods, for example, are perhaps not yet fully developed. And then, it always feels good to refresh your knowledge. So this distance training, too, since our trainers, Muriel Pomponne who is editor-in-chief at RFI and Rachel Locatelli, who is responsible for the training service, have set up a training platform that will be open to our ten journalists. and ten technicians, on which they will discuss, they will do a lot of practical work.
They will also learn, even from a distance, to work together.
That is, a reporting technician has one particular function, the journalist has another function, and together they create sound elements that satisfy the listeners' ears.
And that's the goal, at the end of these a little over two weeks of training in October.
And the scholarship will be awarded to the winner on November 2
November 2 is the date of the assassination of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon. And since 2013 it has become the international day for the fight against impunity for crimes against journalists. On that day, we will designate the two 2021 laureates of this scholarship Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon. There will have been a few days before a jury, made up of journalists and RFI officials, but also of our partners, the National Audiovisual Institute for the technical category and the Sciences Po journalism school for journalists.
This jury meets, a winner is designated in each category.
And at the end of these announcements, we will welcome, and this time we really hope that the health situation will allow it, we will welcome in Paris, to the editorial staff of RFI, the winners in winter 2022 to continue their training, and especially to that we finally meet them, that we can work with them, that they are immersed in our editorial staff.
It has been eight years since RFI set up this scholarship for young journalists and young radio technicians. Do we know what happened to the former laureates?
They all work.
We have news on a regular or episodic basis depending on each other, but above all, it is a real network today.
An association initiated by the first Malian laureates has been set up: the association of scholarship alumni Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon.
At the end of this eighth scholarship, there will be 160 young professionals across the African continent.
It is a true pan-African network of professionals, journalists and technicians who can work together.
We at RFI also want to initiate projects with them, set up operations together, surveys ... For us, it is really a breeding ground for professionalism that is expressed through these 160 young people who will be gathered from November 2 next.
As you recalled, this scholarship was created after the assassination of our colleagues Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Kidal in 2013. It is important to remind you here, RFI is always mobilized to shed light on what is happening. actually passed that day
.
Yes, of course, RFI is mobilized, has been mobilized from the first days.
France Médias Monde, the group, is a civil party in the investigation.
Our journalists are also working on the journalistic investigation to try to move forward, to find out more, for the families as well.
To come back to this scholarship, the idea is also that the memory of Ghislaine and Claude be alive and alive.
These 160 young people are proof of the life of Ghislaine and Claude's memory as very great professionals of RFI.
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