Le French News Lab
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
ICNLSP 2026
Oral presentation · Trento, September 2026
The first continuous, ecosystem-wide ideology scale for French national news, fusing nine independent evidence families under empirical Bayes shrinkage — with a lexical measure that tells partisan endorsement apart from critical reporting.
Amr Sobhy
2026
ICNLSP 2026
Oral presentation · Trento, September 2026
Framing happens twice: once when an outlet decides what to cover, and again when it decides how to word it. This audit measures the two separately across four years of French headlines.
Amr Sobhy
2026
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
2026
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