The prizes attest to journalistic standards recognized by independent peers, but above all they reward work which has mobilized readers, opened debate or moved the lines.
The awarded articles
by Laurent Larcher, La Croix L’Hebdo
Cafeyn Awards 2025: Best survey.
Media Innovation Strategies 2025 Grand Prize: Gold Prize for Best Editorial Initiatives, Best Survey.
Relay-SEPM Magazine Prize of the year 2025: Survey of the year.
Furthermore, this article was cited in a historic legal proceeding. On May 6, 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected the dismissal of charges granted to Agathe Habyarimana, widow of the Rwandan president, a refugee in France since the 1994 genocide. Justice ordered the resumption of the investigation for complicity in genocide, a procedure in which the La Croix investigation played a major documentary role.
At first instance, the judges had in fact asked to hear Colonel Galinié, defense attaché in Rwanda from 1989 to 1991, citing by name a long investigation by Laurent Larcher in La Croix (April 2024). This colonel, who had never spoken before, indicated in the article that he had alerted Paris in vain to the risk of a “final solution” and to “the central role that Agathe Habyarimana played in this objective”. The judges refused to hear our journalist despite the requests of the civil party, who then relied on our investigation to appeal the dismissal of the case.
by Louis Faurent, La Croix L’Hebdo
2025 Media and Rurality Awards: Magazine Favorite.
de Denis Peiron, La Croix
AFJA Prize for agricultural and agri-food journalism 2025: Grand prize ex aequo.
by Marine Lamoureux, La Croix L’Hebdo
Cafeyn Awards 2025: Best Environment article.
Award-winning initiatives
Collective work of La Croix
The Good Grand Prize for Responsibility, Communication and Media 2025: Grand Prize.
The Good Grand Prize for Responsibility, Communication and Media 2025: Gold Prize for Media Editorial Responsibility.
Operation of La Croix and Brut
Engagement Communication Strategies Grand Prize 2025: Ex aequo Silver Prize for Media Communication.
Media Innovation Strategies Grand Prize 2025: Gold Prize for Best communication device for a media outlet, a management company / Best event, special operation, influence, media partnership.
