Albert Londres Journalism Awards 2026 announced in Paris

The 2026 Albert Londres awards ceremony took place on October 27 at the Théâtre de la Concorde in Paris. The event was dedicated to Christophe Gleizes, a journalist imprisoned in Algeria since June 2025.

Bruno Meyerfeld won the prestigious print journalism award for his reporting in Le Monde regarding indigenous peoples and environmental issues in the Amazon. In the audiovisual category, Brice Lambert was honored for his documentary on Arte, ‘Sexe faible. L’Amérique en guerre contre ses femmes’, which examines misogyny and religious fanaticism in the United States.

Arthur Sarradin received the award for the book category for his work, ‘Le nom des ombres. Sortir de l’enfer concentrationnaire syrien’. The 26-year-old journalist documented the opening of Syrian prisons following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in 2024, collecting testimonies from former detainees to reconstruct the mechanisms of the former repressive system.