French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, Londres not only reported news but created it, and reported it from a personal perspective. He criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists. He went to the Balkans to investigate the terrorist actions of the Bulgarian Komitadjis from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
This was to be his last completed report. He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.[4] He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres. But his notes were destroyed in the fire. Questions surround the fire – accident or attack? The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash.
This was to be his last completed report. He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.[4] He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres. But his notes were destroyed in the fire. Questions surround the fire – accident or attack? The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash.
French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, Londres not only reported news but created it, and reported it from a personal perspective. He criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists. He went to the Balkans to investigate the terrorist actions of the Bulgarian Komitadjis from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
This was to be his last completed report. He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.[4] He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres. But his notes were destroyed in the fire. Questions surround the fire – accident or attack? The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash.
This was to be his last completed report. He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.[4] He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres. But his notes were destroyed in the fire. Questions surround the fire – accident or attack? The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash.
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