RFI is organizing the seventh edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship. Exceptionally, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition is not being organized in a single country but in 25 French-speaking countries across the continent.
The seventh edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship is now open. Due to the global health situation, the 2020 edition is not being organized in a specific French-speaking country on the African continent. However, this year it is open to all young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in radio 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, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, 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 winners will receive a month of training in Paris. The scholarship will be awarded on November 2 during a special broadcast on RFI. Applications are open from Monday, August 17, to Friday, September 11, inclusive.
Documents to be downloaded and/or returned by each candidate:
• Detailed conditions of participation: entry form and rules
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• Cover letter form
• Report or audio clip for journalists, editing/mixing or broadcast production for technicians. These audio elements must not exceed 2 minutes 30 seconds.
All these elements must be sent to bourserfi2020@rfi.fr before midnight on Friday, September 11, 2020.
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 5 to Friday, October 24. These remote workshops will culminate in the production of a report for the journalists and an "all-audio" 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.
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