L'Orient-Le Jour reporter Emmanuel Haddad has been shortlisted for the 2026 edition of the prestigious Albert Londres Prize. (Credit: Lina Khalid)
L’Orient-Le Jour reporter Emmanuel Haddad has been shortlisted for the 2026 Albert Londres Prize in the print press category for the second consecutive year, in recognition of a series of major reports on the war in Lebanon and post-Assad Syria. The prestigious French journalism award announced the names of the journalists shortlisted this year from among 162 applications in a statement released Wednesday evening. The award ceremony will take place Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Théâtre de la Concorde in Paris.
For the 88th edition of the print press prize, the other shortlisted journalists are Eliott Brachet (Le Monde), Julien Gester (Libération), Eloïse Layan (Forbidden Stories, Le Monde and Society), with Wethzer Piercin (AyiboPost), Bruno Meyerfeld (Le Monde), Clothilde Mraffko (Médiapart), Guillaume Pajot (Libération and Le Monde), Margaux Seigneur (Le Nouvel Obs, Le Parisien and Géo), and Léonid Stein (Le Monde).
For the 42nd edition of the audiovisual prize, the shortlisted candidates are Solène Chalvon Fioriti and Marianne Getti for Le pays Taliban (FranceTV, Elephant adventures and Chrysalide productions) ; Maxime Priou, Arthur Rayssiguier and Pierre Chabert for Kush: la drogue des morts (Arte and Monolithe productions) ; Brice Lambert for Sexe faible, l’Amérique en guerre contre ses femmes (Arte and Studio fact presse) ; Abhijeet Pandey and Thomas Pham-Hung for Inde: les malgré-nous de l’armée russe (Arte and Keyi productions) ; Jérémie Paire and Fanny Morel for Gaza, l’arme de la faim (BFM-TV) ; and Antoine Schirer, Camille Polloni, Ismaël Halissat and Laura Wojcik for Sainte-Soline: révélations sur le tir tendu qui a failli tuer Serge Duteuil-Graziani (Médiapart and Libération).
Finally, the shortlisted candidates for the 10th edition of the book prize are Élise Blanchard for Dans la maison d’un Taliban, Le récit inédit d’une journaliste au sein d’une famille afghane pendant trois ans (Éd. Le Cherche Midi); Romane Brisard for Inceste d’état (Éd. Stock); Paul Gasnier for La Collision (Éd. Gallimard); Geoffrey Le Guilcher for Les deux mégots, La vérité sur l’affaire Alessandri (Éd. Goutte d’or); and Arthur Sarradin for Le Nom des ombres. Sortir de l’enfer concentrationnaire syrien (Éd. du Seuil).
Created in 1932 in tribute to French journalist Albert Londres, considered the father of modern reporting, and first awarded in 1933, the prize is France’s most prestigious award dedicated to major francophone reporting.
In 2021, our reporter Caroline Hayek won the Albert Londres Prize for a series of reports on Beirut following the Aug. 4 explosion. In 2023, our Belgian contributor Wilson Fache also won the print press prize for his reports on Afghanistan (published in Libération and L’Écho), the Tel Aviv bus station (published in Mouvement), and Ukraine (published in L’Écho).
This marks the fifth time in six years that L’Orient-Le Jour has had a journalist shortlisted for the prize, following Marwan Chahine’s nomination in 2020 for his reporting. Last year, the Albert Londres Prize was awarded in Beirut for the second time, following an initial edition held in the Lebanese capital in 2007. Julie Brafman (Libération) subsequently won the 87th print press prize.
