The winner will soon join the AFP editorial staff on a three-month contract, which will allow him to work at one or several of the agency's services or desks. He will also receive 5,000 euros granted by Arcom to help him carry out his own projects.
(From left to right : Roch-Olivier Maistre, Mario Lawson, Fabrice Fries)
The Mich le L ridon Scholarship aims to honor the memory and continue the commitment of the former AFP global news director and member of the advisory committee of the Audiovisual Council (CSA, now Arcom), who died on May 3, 2021.
The contest is aimed at students who have attended La Chance but who have not yet managed to enter a recognized journalism school.
Lawson attended La Chance between 2019-2020, after completing a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in Bilingual French-English Journalism at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
Since June 2021, he has been a reporter at LFM Radio in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) where he also presents a program deciphering social phenomena related to youth. He has created Mantes & Co en action , a podcast highlighting initiatives taken in Mantes and its region.
Mario Lawson: I am honored and proud to have been chosen as the first recipient of the Mich le L ridon Scholarship , he said. Rest assured that I will take advantage of this experience, as I will try to be a fully operational journalist and live up to the message conveyed by this scholarship.
Roch-Olivier Maistre, President of Arcom, said: We are happy that, through this award, Mich le's commitment to a wider diversity in the media continues. Mario Lawson's primary desire was to become a journalist. It is a wonderful sign of fate that this scholarship has been awarded to him.
AFP Chairman Fabrice Fries said: AFP is delighted to soon welcome Mario Lawson. This scholarship is one of the tools we will use to make our newsroom more representative of society and aligned with Mich le L ridon's commitments.
Marc Epstein, President of La Chance: Mario Lawson has shaped the volunteering journalists of La Chance through his diligence, his productivity, his consideration towards others, and his kindness. Family worries took him away from us too early.
Mich le L ridon was committed to equality of opportunity, a supporter of greater diversity among journalists, and a faithful ally of La Chance. She would have been moved and happy to learn about this scholarship and its first winner.
(From left to right : Roch-Olivier Maistre, Mario Lawson, Fabrice Fries, Floriane de Soras, Dan Israel)
L ridon joined AFP in 1981. She was deputy director of the Abidjan bureau, deputy editor-in-chief for the Europe- Africa bureau, head of the social news service, and Rome bureau chief. In 2014 she became the first woman to be appointed global news director.
She was appointed by the National Assembly to the advisory committee of the Audiovisual Council (CSA) in 2019.
She was mainly responsible for overseeing ethics and political pluralism in programming and followed several elections including the 2019 European elections and the 2020 referendum in New Caledonia before her death last year.
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