Michel Leroy
Responsibilities
Academic Project Manager of the Erasmus+ project CoMMPASS (Communicating Migration and Mobility, E-Learning Programs and Newsroom Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa)
Contact
Erich-Brost Institute for International Journalism
Otto-Hahn Str. 2
44227 Dortmund
Email: send email
Twitter: @MediaDev_FR
Fields of research and teaching
- Media sustainability
- Media development
- Editorial Analytics
- Media and Migration
- Media Social Impact
Background
- 2018-2022: Medas21 doctoral program (including courses on sustainable communication at Jönköping University, Sweden and on Process Tracing Methods at Central European University, Hungary)
- 2009-2018: Paris-based free-lance content producer (investigation, blog, book, TV documentary…), trainer and consultant
- 2001-2008: Lille-based Ecole supérieure de Journalisme and Paris-based Centre de formation des journalistes executive officer
- 2000: Jean-Luc-Lagardère Foundation Award
- 1996-2002: Writer and Sub-Editor for various dailies, weeklies and magazines, foreign correspondent in Laos for Agence France Presse
- 1995-1996: Lecturer at Cairo University (Egypt) and journalist (Al-Gomhouria group)
Publications
- Leroy, Michel (2023): "The social construct of sustainability in Media Development", in Ben Harbisher, Ben (ed), "The Mediation of Sustainability, Developement Goals, Social Movements and Public Dissent", Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham
- Leroy, Michel/Keßler, Mira/Mack, Johanna/ Ortiz dos Santos, Fabiola/Schönbächler, Viviane/Wollnik, Stefan/Zaitoonie, Roja (2022): Developement Assistance in the 21st Century. Lessons learnt from a Media Developement Research Program, Erich-Brost Institute for International Journalism, Dortmund
- Leroy, Michel (2022): Couvrir les migrations et les réfugiés : manuel pour les formateurs en journalisme (Translation into French and foreward of Fengler, Susanne (ed): Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators), Paris, Unesco
- Leroy, Michel (2021): Sustainability: Going Beyond The Buzzword, Research Reviews for Media Development Practitioners, Medas 21/Forum Media und Entwiklung, Aachen
- Leroy, Michel (2014): "Results-Oriented Evaluations: Their Uses, Their Limits and How They are Driving Implementers' Coping Strategies", Global Media Journal German Edition, 2014
- Leroy, Michel/Passicousset, Laurent (2008): "French Research In Transition", Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, 26 September 2008, 1857-1860
Presentations
- Leroy, Michel (2022): Dealing with failures in Media Development Assistance, Medas 21 closing conference, Dortmund, 24 June 2022
- Leroy, Michel (2022): Fundraising for media development, Townhall of the Global Forum for Media Development (virtual), 21 June 2022
- Leroy, Michel/Meuter, Sacha (2022): “Défis actuels du développement des medias en zones de conflits” (discussant), Knowledge for Tomorrow Conference, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 27-29 avril 2022
- Leroy, Michel (2021): In Future We Trust: Sustainability of community radio in developing countries and its interaction with professionalization, European Media Management Association’s conference on “Public interventions in media“, Jönkoping and virtual, 29 October 2021
- Leroy, Michel (2021): Sustainability through 20 years of media development evaluation, International Association for Media and Communication Research pre-conference (Media Sector Development working group), Nairobi and virtual, 11 July 2021
- Leroy, Michel (2020): Response to the paper "Proximity Radio Stations: Sustainability or Pragmatic Viability?" by Myers, Mary/Harford, Nicola, International Association for Media and Communication Research pre-conference on "Re-Imagining Media Development" (Media Sector Development working group), Tampere, 12 July 2020
