Benoit Almeras, winner of the RFI Charles-Lescaut 2020 Prize

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The jury for the "RFI Charles-Lescaut" Prize met this Thursday, June 11, and designated Benoit Almeras winner of the 2020 edition. He obtained a one-year contract with the editorial staff of RFI.

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Benoit Almeras, 34, has just completed the Grenoble School of Journalism (EJDG). Holder of a master's degree in political science and studying at the National School of Geographic Sciences, Benoît has carried out several radio internships, at Radio France, Mayotte 1ère and RFI.

The four candidates, short-listed by a first jury, presented a full 10-minute diary with audio elements, and a short report illustrating a recent event in the news. They then passed an interview before a limited jury for health reasons, composed of RFI editors.

The jury particularly appreciated his good personal and professional knowledge of international and particularly African files. During the newspaper test, Benoit knew how to prioritize information perfectly and during his interview with the jury, he demonstrated a sincere motivation to join the RFI teams.

The Charles Lescaut Prize, organized since 1997 by RFI, offers a year to a journalism school student a one-year contract with the editorial staff of world radio. The candidates for the prize are proposed by fourteen recognized French journalism schools: the Journalists Training Center (CFJ), Sciences Po Paris, the Practical Journalism Institute (IPJ), the School of Advanced Studies in Communication Sciences and of Information (CELSA), the French Press Institute (IFP), the Lille School of Journalism (ESJ), the School of Journalism and Communication in Marseille (EJCM), Public School of Journalism in Tours , the IUT of Lannion, the Institute of Journalism of Bordeaux Aquitaine (IJBA), the School of Journalism of Toulouse (EJT), the University Center of Teaching of Journalism of Strasbourg (CUEJ) the School of Journalism of Grenoble (EJDG) and the Cannes School of Journalism (EDC).

This journalism award was created in homage to Charles Lescaut, a reporter for RFI and the newspaper Le Monde , who disappeared in 1989.

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