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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan

Albert Londres, unflinching reporter who inspired France's top journalism prize

The Prix Albert Londres award for journalism, pictured in Paris on 29 October 2019. © AFP / DOMINIQUE FAGET

This year’s Prix Albert Londres, France’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, will be awarded on 27 November. It bears the name of a legendary French journalist who travelled the world reporting – and both fascinated and appalled readers with what he described.

“We stopped counting the blows. They were falling relentlessly. We left the porch and went across the street, a hundred metres away.

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