Head of the Africa desk for Le Monde newspaper and correspondent in Johannesburg for many years, Jean-Philippe Rémy is a senior reporter and travels across the continent following the news. A subtle pen with an almost literary style, one can recognise the polished writing of this journalist who also occasionally covers news from outside the continent, mainly from war zones.
In 2013, together with the photojournalist Laurent Van der Stockt, both received the Bayeux Calvados Prize for their reports in Syria, having provided evidence of the use of sarin gas against civilians, most probably by the forces of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
In 2018, Jean-Philippe Rémy also received the Ouest-France Jean-Marin Prize for his remarkable investigative work on a hard-to-reach territory and a war forgotten since 2015: Yemen.
An experienced journalist, Jean-Philippe Rémy practices a comprehensive form of reporting that combines meticulous research of the facts, description of reality through visual and pedagogical writing, and thorough preparation that provides a historical and contextual perspective on current events.
This form of comprehensive reporting revives the most classic genre often attributed in France to Albert Londres or Joseph Kessel: witnessing history in progress, telling it by summoning into the story all useful sources (human resources in the field, experts on the subject, archives etc.) and all journalistic genres, as necessary (interview, investigation, chronicle, analysis etc.).