At 41, David has seen the first steps of the Internet revolution in the media world and knows that it is only beginning. After studies of philosophy and political sciences in Grenoble (French Alps), David took the two-year professional master of the Lille School of Journalism.
David then started to work for the French public broadcaster Radio France Internationale (RFI). From 1996 to 2007, he did almost anything an international radio can offer to a journalist, starting with reports on the field, to short and long presentation of various news programs, up to long-term investigation on the French-African trails. Oil scandals, arms trafficking and numbers of political stories have led him to work on the French implication in the Rwandan genocide, which was written in the book A Black War in 2007.
On May 6, 2007, as the French voted Nicolas Sarkozy in office, David and a small team – including former reporters from the daily Libération – launched the first French pure-player, Rue89.com. In a very innovative move at the time, they built a broad community of contributors alongside journalists. David was in charge of investigative journalism. As he covered mostly finance and the economy, he wrote another, collective book, The Hidden Story of the Employers, in 2009.