Natalie Nougayrède
Natalie Nougayrède has been a staffer on the French daily Le Monde since 1996, formerly as Moscow correspondent, later as a journalist in its foreign affairs department. In 2005 she won the Albert Londres prize, the highest French award for journalists, for her coverage of Chechnya and particularly the Beslan school hostage crisis.
Updated: 14 May 2010
A major investigation of leaked data undertaken by several newspapers including Le Monde has highlighted the vast international scale of offshore banking. For the French daily’s editorial director, it should be viewed as a warning that our political systems are under threat. 
The first “Pacific” US president, as he describes himself, is not particularly partial to Europe, but he still needs the three main continental powers. The upshot, explains Le Monde, is a long-distance relationship via videoconference.