Luc Martinon is a French freelance data-journalist based in Berlin.

After 10 years of experience working as an IT engineer, he switched to journalism, working for civil society transparency projects, for the French newspaper Le Monde, and for various cross-border investigations, including the “Forever Pollution Project”. Currently, he works on the “PFAS Data Hub”, a research project which re-used and extended the data of the “Forever Pollution Project”, as well as for the Correctiv Europe, a project associating local journalists to european-wide data investigations. 

Luc Martinon

Basic information

Name
Luc Martinon
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Transparency issues, data journalism
Country
Germany
City
Berlin
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Luc Martinon
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Supported projects

Forever Lobbying Project

  • Data Journalism
  • Environment
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations to water down a proposal to ban “forever chemicals” in the EU and shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society, threatening the economic equilibrium of European nations.

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