I’m a bilingual journalist with a background in the protection of media freedom and media pluralism. I collaborated with the European Parliament, the European Commission, and various international organisations. Before that, I worked as a journalist for the Reuters news agency.

I was born in Paris from a French mother and an English father, with roots in Ireland. After finishing my studies, I moved to Ireland, then to Poland in the pursuit of agency reporting.

I hold two master’s degrees, one in Entrepreneurship & Management of Commercial Networks (2018)—in a nutshell, business, and the other in Multimedia Journalism (2021). The first degree was a result of a five-year program between Paris and Edinburgh. The second was from Galway, on the Irish Atlantic coast. I also achieved high language certifications in both English and French, which allowed me to experiment with different styles in both languages, juggling between the laconicism of agency writing, the sectorial language of international organisations and the emphatic style of opinion stories.

I chose my first degree on the prospect of a stable to long-term position in a corporate job, but after graduation, I moved towards the hospitality industry, and worked as a pub manager in Paris.

The pandemic became a motivation to start working in journalism: the pub was one of the first casualties of lockdown and was temporarily closed, leaving me with lots of time on my hands and the opportunity to study journalism while working for a local newspaper.

I reported on community stories of success, culture, and climate change from Galway and surroundings, in both print and radio.

A year later, I was working as a news reporter at Reuters, where I found that charts and essays of political economy from back in business school could somehow interlock with my literary passion when writing about companies, monitoring stock price changes, and translating articles on various topics.

After Reuters, I moved on to work for the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the largest organisation of journalists in Europe. I was the principal coordinator on several projects all over Europe, and I engaged with our readership via newsletters, podcasts, and articles.

As part of my work with the EFJ, I gave voice to the rights of journalists and publications across Europe and contributed to keeping governments and policymakers accountable to press freedom and media pluralism. I worked in close contact with the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), a non-profit organisation that promotes and defends the right to free media, and the International Press Institute (IPI), a global organisation dedicated to free speech and the improvement of journalism practices.

With the ECPMF and the IPI, I developed the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) initiative, a project publishing a monitoring report three times a year, documenting and analysing press freedom violations in European member states and candidate countries.

Leaving such a job was not an easy decision to take, but I wanted to get back to writing. I now work as a freelance journalist. I mostly write, but I occasionally also do radio. I have dipped my toes in filming. I currently live in Poland, where I’m continuing my studies in the Polish language and planning a PhD.

I see journalism as a powerful tool to tell other people’s stories, to initiate discussion, and I consider it a public good and a vector for change.

Journalism is always evolving, and I am trying to evolve with it. As J.G. Ballard once said, “I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?