News avoidance is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean people have gotten less curious. It’s a great moment for journalists to try new things, to dream big and experiment with creative formats and ...
David Castello-Lopes
David Castello-Lopes is a journalist and comedian who has been touring for the past two years in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada with Authentique, a one-man show. He is the former head of video and visual journalism at Le Monde. He also worked at Canal+ for 10 years. There he produced Depuis Quand (Since When), a mix of reportage, skits and songs, in which he travelled the world to meet inventors. Nowadays, he is a contributor to Arte, with a segment called Intéressant (Interesting) in which he answers apparently futile questions about the world, to the online media Konbini with Small Talk, a podcast in which he interviews celebrities on everything except what they are famous for, and to France’s leading news radio (La question on France Inter).
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