Born and based in Paris, I am a former journalist and I am currently a PhD student in British Civilization and Media Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Graduate in multilingual engineering (English, German, Arabic) from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations in Paris (INALCO), I am passionate about computational linguistics and the study of press language.
Having lived through the crisis of the press and its ongoing digital transition, I study the impact of technological change on press content in a data driven way. As a PhD, I have created my corpora using data mining and corpus linguistics. The use of text-mining softwares allows me to make new discoveries about the editorial line of the British publications I study (among which The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph...).
Since 2016, I have worked as an associate professor in British and American civilization at Paris-Nanterre University. I am one of the 3 founding members of the Junior Research Lab Crew (Centre for Research on the English speaking World) as part of my Parisian research team at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
During my English studies, I translated Martin Amis' book titled Time's Arrow.
I have worked for various types of print and digital media, from national publications to specialized and scientific journals. Among the fields: financial news, new information and communication technologies, African cultural and business news, history of religion.
My main publications: Le Nouvel Observateur (now L'Obs), L'Agefi (now pure player), Jeune Afrique, Smart Cards & Systems, Le Nouvel Afrique Asie, Ecofinance, Le Courrier de la Monétique, Technologies bancaires, Religions et Histoire... Many publications I wrote in, have missed the internet shift and ceased publication.
As a former journalist and a researcher specialized in textual statistics, I am confident the use of data mining and data analysis is the future of journalism.