RFI is organizing the eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship. Once again this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 edition is not being organized in a single country, but in 25 French-speaking countries across the African continent.
The eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship is now open. Due to the global health situation, the 2021 edition is not being organized in a specific French-speaking country on the African continent, but is once again open to all young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in radio for at least two years and reside in one of the following French-speaking countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, and Rwanda.
Created in tribute to its two reporters murdered on November 2, 2013, in Kidal, northern Mali, this scholarship is awarded each year to a young African journalist and a young African technician. The scholarship will be awarded on November 2, a date designated by the United Nations as the "International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists" in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon. The scholarship will be awarded on November 2 during a special program on RFI.
Ten journalist candidates and ten technician candidates will be selected on the basis of their applications and then invited to take part in a distance learning course from Monday, October 4 to Friday, October 22. These distance learning workshops will culminate in the production of a report for the journalists and an "all-sound" piece for the technicians.
The jury, composed of representatives from RFI, the Sciences Po School of Journalism, and INA, will meet in Paris to select the two winners at the end of this training period.
Applications are open from Monday, August 16, to Sunday, September 12, at midnight Paris time.
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