Carine Fouteau

Nommée présidente et directrice de la publication de Mediapart en mars 2024.

Carine Fouteau est née en 1974. Licenciée d’histoire à l’Université Paris I, diplômée de Sciences Po Paris, titulaire d’un master de journalisme à New York University, elle est embauchée en 1999 sur le site internet des Échos et rejoint quelques mois plus tard le quotidien papier pour suivre les conditions de travail. En 2003, elle ouvre un nouveau poste consacré aux enjeux de société : laïcité, démographie et immigration. Sur son temps libre, elle écrit pour la revue culturelle, politique et sociale Vacarme.

Elle quitte les Échos à la suite du rachat du titre par le groupe LVMH et rejoint Mediapart en 2008 dès sa création pour suivre les questions migratoires. Pendant dix ans, elle enquête sur les morts aux frontières de l’Europe, les méfaits de Frontex, le durcissement continu des politiques d’accueil européenne, la torture en Libye, la fabrique de l’illégalité et les violences administratives et policières subies en France par les migrants et les demandeurs d’asile.

En mars 2018, elle succède à François Bonnet, cofondateur de Mediapart, à la direction éditoriale de Mediapart, poste qu’elle occupe aux côtés de Stéphane Alliès jusqu’à octobre 2023.

Co-auteure d'Immigrés sous contrôle (Le Cavalier bleu, 2008), avec Danièle Lochak, elle a également publié en février 2014 Roms & riverains, Une politique municipale de la race (La Fabrique), avec Éric Fassin, Serge Guichard et Aurélie Windels.

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  • The jailing of Christophe Gleizes: why a journalist should never be behind bars

    International — Opinion

    An appeal court in Algeria has just upheld a seven-year prison sentence that had been given to French journalist Christophe Gleizes. The sports reporter had been convicted of, among other offences, “glorifying terrorism” over an interview with a sports official who has links to a banned separatist movement. In this op-ed article Mediapart's publishing editor says the verdict flies in the face of fundamental universal principles that enshrine the right to know.

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  • Why Macron bears responsibility for MPs' vengeful vote against 1968 Franco-Algerian accord

    Politique — Opinion

    On October 30th October MPs in the National Assembly voted for a non-binding motion criticising the 1968 accord between France and its former colony Algeria. It was thanks to its active allies on the Right, and its silent ones in the centre, that the far-right succeeded with this vengeful resolution, one oozing in resentment. The French president's own laissez-faire attitude has clearly had a part to play in France's inabilty to acknowledge its colonial past, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor in this op-ed article. 

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  • France is finally tackling state crime

    France — Opinion

    Political and financial crime is one of the French Republic’s best-kept secrets. It poisons the state quietly, to the detriment of the citizens who have to pay the price. That is why the judgement handed down on September 25th in the Libyan funding affair involving former president Nicolas Sarkozy and other high-profile defendants is of vital importance, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor in this op-ed article.

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  • Macron's self-made political crisis and its threat to democracy

    France — Opinion

    Insensitive to mounting anger in France over worsening social conditions and increasing demands made upon the less well-off, while obstinately turning his back on honouring the results of last year’s snap parliamentary elections, in which the broad Left triumphed, Emmanuel Macron is precipitating a major political crisis, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. Joined also by an economic crisis, and a blurring of political lines, she argues, the French president is opening up the final stretch of the road to power for the far-right.

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  • Why we need these citizen protests against the warmongers

    International — Opinion

    With the fate of the world depending on the erratic and criminal strategies of autocrats who flout international law, the citizen protests seen across the globe, and in particular those against the genocidal operations in Gaza, bear witness to a shared conscience and a collective ability to stand together, writes Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. She argues that only these protests and this unity can halt the unfolding catastrophe, a looming disaster exemplified by the American bombing of Iranian sites this weekend.

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  • Taking on Trump: why we have to cast aside shock and fear

    International — Opinion

    By attacking the rule of law, the newly-installed United States president is weakening democratic checks and balances and undermining resistance. His blizzard of executive orders echoes the US military's 'shock and awe' tactics of the Iraq War and has left opponents reeling. In order to oppose this catastrophic state of affairs, argues Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, we urgently need to put an end to factional infighting, form a united front and confront it head on.

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  • Mediapart quits Musk's X in stand against disinformation

    France — Opinion

    With Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House, billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X, the former Twitter, has become transformed into a weapon of mass disinformation. Mediapart refuses to serve the cause of the enemies of journalism and the public general interest, explains publishing editor Carine Fouteau.

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  • The importance of journalism in this era of Trumpian chaos

    International — Opinion

    Donald Trump considers them the “enemies of the people.” As journalists in the United States worry about their future, a key question arises: what is the role of the media? In this op-ed article in the wake of Trump's win, publishing editor Carine Fouteau explains Mediapart's journalistic mission, which she says is based on corroborated, verified and well-documented facts published in the interest of citizens.

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  • The world now has a fascistic 'madman' at its helm

    International — Opinion

    Donald Trump’s election marks a victory for white supremacy in the United States. In an apocalyptic atmosphere, the repercussions of his win beyond America's borders are alarming: it will undermine democracies, women and minorities worldwide, while at the same time helping to embolden the far-right and dictators of all kinds, writes Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. All we can do, she argues, is resist – and strengthen the bulwarks of democracy.

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  • The war in Gaza and our guilty silence

    International — Opinion

    One year after the Hamas attack on Israel, the resulting war in the Middle East now spreads from the Gaza Strip to Lebanon. The populations of Western countries have remained largely passive before the massacre of Palestinian civilians, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, and that inertia has left their governments free to refuse to sanction the Netanyahu government. It is, she argues, as if sections of our societies don't want to recognise their own crimes in the mirror image of colonization that is reflected by Israel.

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  • The news is under threat in France – yet the mainstream media look the other way

    Culture et idées — Analysis

    Last week a national conference on information, the 'États Généraux de l'Information', which was established by President Emmanuel Macron in 2023, published its proposals for the future of the news industry. But, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau, its report revealed the media sector's inability to grasp the essential changes needed to defend independent, public-interest journalism. This is despite the fact that the need for strong counterbalances to the country's business and political powers is now greater than ever.

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  • The danger of Macron's democratic 'truce'

    France — Opinion

    “That's not the issue,” the French president responded when asked about the prospect of nominating a prime minister from the Left. Speaking on France 2 television, Emmanuel Macron did finally acknowledge that he had lost the recent parliamentary elections but, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, he still refuses to face up to the consequences, and instead imagines he can carry on with the policies that have led both him and France into a dead end. She argues that the president's continuing scheming to remain in power – which includes calling for a political 'truce' during the Paris Olympics - poses a threat to the rule of law.

    by Carine Fouteau

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Carine Fouteau

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