PARIS
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Christine Holzbauer (Madison) has been working as a reporter in Africa since August 2001. Based in Mali and Senegal, she worked as the regional correspondent for the French newsmagazine “L’Express”, the daily newspaper “La Croix” and the economic daily newspaper “La Tribune”. By the end of 2012, she joined the IC Publications Group as their West and Central correspondent; and then contributed numerous reports as special envoy for the magazines "New AFrican", African Business as well as African Banker in French upon her return to Paris. In January 2016, she issued the first "Lettre des Entretiens Eurafricains" for which she worked as Chief Editor during one year.
In Mali, she made several investigative reports on child trafficking, al-Quaïda in the desert, the lost manuscripts of Timbuktu as well as a front cover story on “Gold to save Mali” (L’or au secours du Mali) that was issued in the international edition of L’Express dated June 6, 2002. In Senegal, where L’Express is widely read, she also made a front cover story for the international edition of the French newsmagazine in September 2003 with an investigative report on Casamance one year after the sinking of the Joola entitled “Return on an African Tragedy” (“Retour sur une tragédie africaine”). For both “La Croix” and “L’Express”, she covered the conflict in Casamance extensively as well as other conflict areas such as Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, Chad, or trafficking in the Sahel Sahara Band including drug and human trafficking. She was the first French journalist to reveal and wrote about the presence of terrorist groups bound to al-Qaïda in the desertic regions of Mali, Mauritania and Niger in 2002.
Before moving to Africa, she spent three years in the Balkan (1998-2001) where she worked as a free lance reporter and correspondent for the French newsmagazine “Le Point”, the daily newspaper “La Croix”, the daily economic newspaper “La Tribune” and Radio France International (RFI). Based in Zagreb (Croatia), she covered the death of President Tudjman, the strikes in Kosovo and the fall of Serbian President Milosevic.
Other Foreign assignments included a free lance correspondence in Germany at the time of reunification (1989-1992) for the daily newspaper “Le Monde” as well as an editing job at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Washington, D.C. (1986-1989) and a radio reporting job at the Voice of America (VOA) French to Africa desk in Washington, D.C. (1984-1986).
She is perfectly bilingual in French and English which entitled her to do lots of consulting for the United Nations and other leading NGO’s in the field of development both for written and audio/video stories. She also speaks fluently German and has notions in Spanish and Croatian. She holds a Diploma of International Studies from Sciences Po. Paris, a Diploma of Superior Studies in Political Sciences from the Sorbonne, and has studied two years in the PhD program of the School of International Service (SIS) of American University in Washington, D.C.
Mes compétences :
Reportage
Photographie
Réalisation audiovisuelle
Montage
Rewrtiing
Traduction anglais français
