Virginie Herz is Managing Editor of France 24 and head of the reporters department. Previously, she worked there as a senior foreign affairs editor and senior reporter.

She began her career as a freelance correspondent in Thailand and went on to cover numerous international stories from high-level summits to the civil war in Libya and the Arab Spring. Her report on the Guinean putsch leader, Dadis Camara, was nominated in 2011 for two major French journalism awards; the Albert Londres and Bayeux. In 2013, she created Actuelles, a groundbreaking show about women's rights for France 24 that she anchored for nine years and for which she won - with Annette Young - the gold medal in broadcast journalism (the Ricardo Ortega prize) awarded by the U.N Correspondents’ Association in 2018. Franco-German, Virginie studied political science and European affairs in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Oxford Climate Journalists Network.

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