Le French News Lab

Publications

Le French News Lab publishes research on French political news, media discourse, and computational approaches to public language. This page gathers our research outputs, working papers, and publications.

2026

Working paper

Conflict or Strategy? Asymmetric Role Framing of La France insoumise and Rassemblement National in French News Headlines, 2022–2025

A quantitative framing analysis of 28,592 headlines across 25 French outlets showing that LFI and RN are cast as fundamentally different kinds of political actors — one a behavioral antagonist, the other an institutional competitor.

Amr Sobhy

2026

Working paper

FrenchNews-7: Benchmarking Cross-Publisher French News Editorial Desk Classification

A cross-publisher French news editorial desk classification benchmark with 87,637 labeled articles from 13 publishers, a public CamemBERT model, and manifest-only dataset resources from Le French News Lab.

Amr Sobhy