Six students awarded the Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism

Created in 2005, this prize is awarded to journalists who cover European topics in French, via written, audiovisual or web media.
The ceremony was held on Wednesday 14 June at Quai d’Orsay in Paris, in the presence of Laurence Boone, Secretary of State for Europe, and the winners of each category.

Ali Al Helli, Laura Collard, Marie Debauche, Léna Gheys, Émile Herman and Inés Verheyleweghen, students at IHECS, received the "Young Journalists" prize sponsored by the Hippocrène Foundation for their report entitled "Conversations dans la cuisine, avec les russophones de Lettonie" ("Conversations in the kitchen with Russian speakers from Latvia").

This video report reports on the daily life of the Russian minority, which represents a real socio-political issue in the relations between the two countries. The students questioned how the Russian diaspora constructs its identity and its integration – successful or otherwise – into Latvian society. This work, carried out as part of the media report project, received a very high award from the jury comprising several professional journalists last January.

This Prize rewards a group of students who have carried out a production project with rigour and mastery of a challenging subject involving the surmounting of significant obstacles to successfully achieve their initial objectives.

Congratulations to the students!

Discover the report!