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 stand against the far-right, in tune with our conscience

    France — Opinion

    The far-right Rassemblement National party hopes to win an absolute majority after the second round of voting on Sunday in France’s parliamentary elections. In this op-ed article, Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau examines what is at stake behind Sunday’s poll, and calls on all those still hesitating over their choice at the urns to urgently examine their conscience and prevent the far-right from reaching power.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • Mediapart salutes the memory of press freedom campaigner Christophe Deloire

    France

    Christophe Deloire, the secretary general of press freedom NGO Reporters sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders), has died at the age of 53, it was announced on Saturday. Mediapart salutes the importance of the battles he fought for the cause of a free, independent and pluralist press and, as Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau writes here, we keep in mind our common combat over issues of major importance for the media.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • The French Left's duty to work together as far-right eyes gains at European elections

    Politique — Analysis

    As the far-right gains support across Europe, President Emmanuel Macron continues to portray them as the only political alternative to him and his party in France. The different strands of the French Left therefore need to work together or run the risk of being marginalised in the European elections on June 9th, writes Mediapart publishing editor Carine Fouteau.

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  • New Caledonia: a return of colonialism through the back door

    France — Analysis

    A sixth person was on Saturday reported to have been killed in the ongoing unrest in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, amid increasing calls for Emmanuel Macron and his government to place on hold the legislation that sparked the violence. This will give newly arrived settlers, mostly European, on the South Pacific archipelago the right to vote in local elections, whereas until now the electoral register was frozen in order that the indigenous Kanak people maintain their political representation. In this analysis of the crisis, Mediapart publishing editor Carine Fouteau says that an almost four-decade-long process of decolonization is now at a crossroads, and at stake is the survival of the Kanak people who have been gradually turned into a minority under French domination since the mid-19th century.     

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • Mediapart launches battle against Google for transparency over intellectual property rights payments

    Culture et idées

    As a result of confidentiality clauses imposed by Google, Mediapart will not accept the money owed to it over the use of its intellectual property in search engine results; what are known as “neighbouring rights”. It comes down to an issue of trust with our readership, explains Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau, who argues that a united front by the press publishing sector is more necessary than ever in the face of Big Tech's lack of transparency.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • Gaza: what are we doing to stop the catastrophe?

    International — Opinion

    After six months of Israeli bombardments the Gaza Strip is now just rubble and the war against Hamas has turned into a massacre of Palestinians, says Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. And by not opposing the destruction of an entire people, she argues, we become accomplices to it.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • A new page opens in the history of Mediapart

    France

    Mediapart co-founder Edwy Plenel, until now its president and publishing editor, has passed the reins to Carine Fouteau. As this new page opens in the history of Mediapart, she sets out here how this online journal will pursue with its founding mission of reporting for the public good, alongside the ambition of broadening its readership. Mediapart will, she writes, continue to disturb some and unite many through the force and quality of its journalism.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • The massacre in Gaza: why inaction is a crime

    International — Opinion

    The people of Gaza are being engulfed by rivers of blood. And part of our humanity is being swept away with them, write Mediapart's Joseph Confavreux and Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. There is an urgent need for compassion, public pressure and politics, they say, to halt the deaths of civilians - including many children.

    by Joseph Confavreux and Carine Fouteau

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  • Why France's banning of the abaya in schools is a symptom of an identitarian panic

    France — Opinion

    France is withdrawing into itself, writes Mediapart’s co-editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. The latest manifestation of its post-colonial obsessions is the ban now introduced on the wearing at school of the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women. It translates into a generalised suspicion towards Muslims, more precisely female Muslims, but also into the defeat of France’s principles of secularism and the right of pupils to control their own bodies.

    by Carine Fouteau

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  • Ukraine: the anger and legal quandary surrounding collaboration

    Europe — Report

    After the recapture by Ukraine last autumn of territories occupied by Russia since its invasion of the country in February 2022, there is a strong public demand that those who collaborated with the occupier should be brought to account before the courts. Beyond the most flagrant cases, the legal process of identifying collaboration can be both complicated and sensitive, with some having acted voluntarily, others under duress. The prosecution services, meanwhile, are under pressure to act swiftly. Carine Fouteau reports from the city of Kharkiv and its surrounds, liberated last September.

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  • Why the French government must drop its brutal and unfair pension reforms

    Politique — Opinion

    The pension changes proposed by President Emmanuel Macron – the fourth reform in twenty years and which in this case will push the retirement age back from 62 to 64 - will leave no one better off. The demonstrators who have taken to the streets on January 19th and January 31st have fully grasped that point, say Mediapart's Stéphane Alliès, Carine Fouteau and Dan Israel in this op-ed article. They argue that the stubbornness shown by the government, which looks set to force the reforms through the French Parliament, represents a danger to democracy.

    by Stéphane Alliès, Carine Fouteau and Dan Israel

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  • French far-right target journalists amid Macron's 'laissez-faire'

    France — Opinion

    The threats against journalists, including one of our own, by far-right supporters in France are intolerable, write Mediapart co-editors Stéphane Alliès and Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. It is high time for French President Emmanuel Macron, preoccupied with ensuring a second mandate in the presidential elections due next April, to take proper measure of the danger that is afoot.  

    by Stéphane Alliès and Carine Fouteau

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Carine Fouteau

Mediapart Journalist

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