If names could predict a profession, Erwin Canard, journalist, would be the perfect embodiment. This young journalist at AEF Info (a media outlet specialising in education) boasts his unique surname on his Twitter account and on his former freelance blog, soberly entitled "Le Canard de l'Education". A sense of humour and good humour, attested to by one of his friends who describes him as "a joker, very funny". A temperament that may have helped him cope with the tragic events that plunged the world of education into mourning in October 2023 and 2020. The deaths of Dominique Bernard and Samuel Patty, teachers murdered by religious extremists, which Erwin had to cover for his media, left a deep impression on him. Gathering the testimonies of those involved "the anguish, the sadness, the fear... it was very hard", he confides.

"After a preparatory school in the literary section, I naturally headed for the Info-Communication degree offered by EJCAM in Aix-en-Provence, with the ambition of becoming a journalist. This year was a rich learning experience, as I discovered the world of the media and advertising, all the more so with the end-of-year internship I chose to do at the local Marseilles office of the newspaper La Provence.

Following this experience, I moved on to Made in Marseille, the region's leading pure player, where I was in charge of articles, videos and social networks. I then returned to La Provence, where I'm now an editor.

What I remember most about my time at EJCAM was the dynamic impetus provided by some of the teachers, who didn't hesitate to get us to go off the beaten track and work on our creative side. That still helps me every day.

Crédit photo : Frédéric Speich

Solène Leroux: "Since the beginning, I've taken the side roads", is the title of the portrait created by Manoa Debande, a Master degree journalism/alternance 1st year student, as part of the course taught by David Courbet, Journalist - AFP Editor at the Marseille office.
Since September 2023, Solène Leroux has been working for the "RMC s'engage avec vous". Portrait of a determined journalist who has been in love with radio since she was a child.

"If someone had told me a year ago that I would be working at RMC, I would have laughed. And yet, here Solène Leroux is, five days a week since September, in the offices of RMC.
The journalist works for "RMC s'engage avec vous". Every morning at 6:30, the journalist highlights a problem encountered by listeners, and Solène Leroux finds solutions. "It's a long-term project, which is quite rare in the audiovisual media", she admits.
 

Behind the three-minute on-air chronicle lies a great deal of investigative work. "Listeners contact us to present their personal problems, or they present themselves as alert launcher. We select the stories, make in-depth enquiries, get in touch with them, and set up the filming and editing," she explains. "Not forgetting the work on the contradictory statements, the file we build on the case. At the very least, it lasts a week, but I've been known to stay on a case for a month."
 

This was the case for his investigation into the evangelical church Assemblée chrétienne pour l'évangélisation et le réveil (ACER), his "greatest pride". This work enabled her to uncover the testimonies of former members of the congregation who spoke of sectarian aberrations, and thus to reveal these facts to Miviludes, the state body responsible for combating sects, which subsequently brought the case to court.

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