Sophie Pouzeratte, winner of the 2022 RFI Charles-Lescaut Prize

Sophie Pouzeratte won the RFI Charles-Lescaut 2022 Prize on March 31, 2022. © RFI

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The jury for the "RFI Charles-Lescaut" Prize met on Thursday 31 March.

He appointed Sophie Pouzeratte, winner of the 2022 edition. She obtains a one-year contract within the editorial staff of RFI.

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Aged 24, Sophie Pouzeratte is finishing her Master's degree in journalism, specializing in radio, at the CUEJ in Strasbourg.

The four candidates, 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 then had an interview in front of a jury restricted for health reasons, made up of three editors-in-chief of RFI.

The jury particularly appreciated Sophie Pouzeratte's mastery of the hierarchy of information, her ease and responsiveness at the microphone, and her writing adapted to the presentation of an RFI newspaper.

“The Charles Lescaut Prize”, organized since 1997 by RFI, each year offers 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 (EJCM), 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 of

This Journalism Prize was created in tribute to Charles Lescaut, reporter for RFI and the newspaper Le Monde, who died in 1989.

►The 2022 Charles Lescaut Prize jury was made up of:

-Liza Chaboussant, president of the jury, General Secretary of Editorials,

- Frédérique Misslin, Deputy Director of RFI, in charge of World News

-Yves Rocle, Deputy Director of RFI, in charge of African languages

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