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Carine Fouteau
OccupationJournalist
Employer(s)Les Echos (1999-2008)
Mediapart (2008–present)
Websiteblogs.mediapart.fr/carine-fouteau

Carine Fouteau, born in 1974, is a French journalist. She is chief executive and publication director of Mediapart since March 2024[1].

Biography

Education

Carine Fouteau studied history at Université Paris I where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree.

She has studied at Sciences Po Paris.

In 1999, she got a master’s degree in journalism at the New York University.

Career

Carine Fouteau began her journalist career in 1999 in French newspaper 'Les Echos, first for the website, but shortly after in the printed newspaper team[2]. At first writing on labor and working conditions, she created in 2003 a new section of the newspaper focused on social matters: laicity, immigration, demography…[3]

In 2008, after LVMH’s acquisition of Les Echos, Carine Fouteau joined the brand new online newspaper Mediapart, specializing in migration. She became one of the two chief editors ten years later, in 2018, associated with Stéphane Alliès. They succeeded to François Bonnet, co-founder of Mediapart.

In 2024, she succeeded to other Mediapart co-founder Edwy Plenel as president and head of publication. At this occasion, the board of directors consisted of 4 women[4]. Mediapart, which is the third generalist daily French newspaper[5], became the first to be managed exclusively by women[6].

Bibliography

  • Danièle Lochak; Carine Fouteau (2008), Immigrés sous contrôle (in French), Le Cavalier Bleu, ISBN 9782846702119
  • Éric Fassin; Carine Fouteau; Serge Guichard; Aurélie Windels (2014), Roms & riverains, Une politique municipale de la race (in French), La Fabrique, ISBN 978-2-35872-057-1

References