Christophe has been Director General of Reporters sans Frontières since August 2012. As a journalist he started his career at the Berlin bureau of the French TV channel TF1. He then went on to work at LCI and Arte TV stations before joining the editorial staff of the French weekly news magazine Le Point. In 2007, he joined Axel Springer as politics and economics editor-in-chief of a daily publication. En 2008, he was appointed Director of the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), one of the biggest journalism schools in France. Christophe wrote and co-directed a TV documentary Chirac intime, shown in 2008, and has also published 8 books  He was the winner of the Prix Louis Hachette in 2003 and was in charge of a collection of investigative books at Flammarion from 2006 to 2010.