Marie Le Conte (born 29 December 1991)[1][2] is a French-Moroccan journalist and author, based in London.
Early life
Le Conte grew up in Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique area of France. She has Moroccan heritage.[3] She had work experience at the Ouest-France newspaper in her home region, prior to moving to London to study journalism.[4] She graduated with a BA in journalism from the University of Westminster in 2013.[5]
Career
Journalist
As a journalist Le Conte worked from 2015 as Evening Standard political diarist, and from 2016 until 2017 was the politics correspondent for BuzzFeed News.[6] In 2016 she was named by MHP Communications on their "30 To Watch" annual list of young journalists in the UK media industry.[7]
She has written about British politics for Politico.eu,[16] and has written about British attitudes from an outsider perspective.[17] She has, with co-host Gráinne Maguire, produced a podcast called Changing Politics.[18]
Le Conte wrote a collection of personal essays on race, language and identity in 2016, published by Von Zos.[20]
Writing about Westminster politics, she authored the book Haven’t You Heard? A Guide To Westminster Gossip and Why Mischief Gets Things Done, which was published in September 2019.[21] She wrote the book Honourable Misfits: A Brief History of Britain’s Weirdest, Unluckiest, and most Dangerous MPs in 2021.[22]
Le Conte authored the book Escape: How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet, which was published in 2022.[23]
