Yasmine is a freelance journalist. She likes the long view, in-depth investigations and thought-provoking reports. We've read her in Médiapart, Marsactu and Street Press, on subjects close to her heart: gender, migration, cinema... with an eye to France and the Maghreb, and a special focus on Algeria.
A graduate of the Journalism Master's program, Tristan Dereuddre worked as an intern for the Politis editorial team (2023-2024) before moving to French Guiana to pursue a multi-media career in print, TV and radio journalism.
After a fixed-term contract with France-Antilles / France-Guyane, he worked as a freelance journalist in French Guiana. He quickly made a name for himself: in 2025, he won the Prix Varenne Jeune Journaliste in the regional weekly press category for his investigation into detention conditions at the Rémire-Montjoly prison, published in France-Guyane. This is one of the most prestigious awards in French journalism.
During a visit to EJCAM, we took the opportunity to hear her story.
Produced by Julien Brehelin.
From the EJCAM to the stages of the Bataclan, from the offices of the Ministry of the Interior to the PACA, Gard and Corsica regions... Paul has charted a course all his own! Today, he uses his communications skills to promote entrepreneurship and social impact at Adie and Passage des Entrepreneuses. Projects that make sense, carried out with passion.
Trained at EJCAM in the subtleties of healthcare organisation communications (M1 Organisational communication in health and healthcare) and press relations (M2 Communication strategies et press relations), Antoine Marcel developed his expertise at Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), orchestrating the promotion of medical innovations and managing editorial projects. He is now putting this experience to good use at the NeuroMarseille Institute (Aix Marseille University) as Communications officer.
From EJCAM to NeuroMarseille: Antoine looks back on the key stages of his career in this video.
Video credits: Julien Brehelin
"Audrey Travère, investigation at heart". This is the title of the portrait produced by Marie Teranne, a student in the Master's program in Journalism, as part of the course taught by David Courbet, journalist and AFP editor at the Marseille office.
Audrey Travère is an experienced investigative journalist. Project Pegasus, Cartel, Green Blood... At just thirty years of age, she has already contributed to several international investigations, and today works as a freelancer for Radio France's investigative unit. A passion for investigation that she has nurtured since her student days at the Aix-Marseille School of Journalism and Communication.
By Marie Teranne
"A demanding job that constantly demands energy". That's how Audrey Travère describes investigative journalism. With a bobbed haircut and determined eyes, this investigator, already experienced despite her relative youth (30), sits at a small wooden table in a dark corner of this restaurant in Paris's 13th arrondissement. Dressed in a black turtleneck sweater and jeans, Audrey is leaning against a wall on which hang several photos of journalists from the daily Le Monde. Leaving nothing to chance, it was just a few steps away that the young woman carried out her first investigation six years ago as part of her final-year internship with Le Monde's Décodeurs department. "It was 2017. The election of Emmanuel Macron had reshuffled the political cards, with a lot of new MPs. So we set ourselves the goal of investigating these new entrants to the National Assembly," recalls the journalist, with a smile on her face. "At Le Monde, the journalists were not only talented, but also friendly. The team gave me a very positive image of the kind of professional I wanted to become," adds Audrey.
The Marseille School of Journalism and Communication (EJCAM), more than a higher education establishment, is first and foremost a welcoming environment, a place where students can express their passion and creativity, a place where they can surpass themselves.
I found my place here in September 2007, alongside other students who were both curious and supportive, open-minded and just as caring as the teaching and administrative staff.
I was keen to capitalise on my professional experience, particularly in the field of communications, having learned a lot by doing as a press attaché and communications officer. I wanted to gain "legitimacy", thanks to a diploma, which is very francophone...
The Master 2 in Media, Health and Communication was the closest to the path I wanted to follow.
EJCAM's SIC research laboratory (IMSIC since IRSIC merged with Toulon's I3M) is a real opportunity to study and understand, among other things, socio-technical mutations.
The teachers-researchers and members of the laboratory have provided me with rigorous and benevolent support, always ready to share their expertise and guide my research.
Their support has been an essential driving force in the progress of my work, enabling me to develop an in-depth analysis of communication strategies adapted to the context of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
I seized the opportunity to join IRSIC (which was still IRSIC at the start of my thesis), with the support of Professor Dominique BOURGEOIS, who offered to supervise me after having helped me defend my Master 2. Why not become a teacher-researcher? It offers the dual advantage of passing on knowledge while traveling the world.
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.
A PRIVILEGED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AUDIENCE
In 2013, I joined EJCAM in the 3rd year of the information-communication bachelor's degree program in Aix-en-Provence.
This course gave me the grounding I needed to choose between the various master's programs offered by EJCAM.
At the end of the year, I decided to go for a master's degree in communication strategy, again at EJCAM.
During my two years at EJCAM, I worked on a number of communication-related projects in teams (web, public relations, events, etc.).
All these projects helped me to gain a 360° vision of communication and gave me the tools I needed to build my professional project.
I was also lucky enough to be able to go on a 4-month university exchange to Montreal, at a partner university, UQAM.
During this exchange, I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Communication and New Digital Media.
My studies at EJCAM and this bachelor's degree enabled me to refine my professional project by focusing on media and digital.
Today, after spending more than six and a half years in a media agency, I'm in charge of media and acquisition for Compagnie des Alpes (Parc Astérix, Futuroscope, etc.).
If you're looking to learn about 360° communication and take part in a wide range of stimulating projects as part of a team, I recommend EJCAM!
