Stéphane Horel
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Stéphane Horel is an investigative journalist at French newspaper Le Monde, specializing in corporate harm, toxic industries, and scientific disinformation. She has written several books, and has directed a dozen documentaries.
Her investigations into corporate lobbying won the Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism (2017) and the European Press Prize for Investigation (Monsanto Papers, with Stéphane Foucart, 2018).
Since her first participation in a cross-border project in 2018, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Implant Files, she has become a passionate practitioner of cross-border journalism, developing innovative investigation methodologies.
She coordinated the awarded Forever Pollution Project, which revealed the extent of PFAS contamination in Europe (2023) and the Forever Lobbying Project (2025). She received the European Science journalist of the year award in 2024.
