Alva French is a Brooklyn-based video journalist.

Born in Paris, she is a dual national of France/EU and the US, and a career changer with experience in the arts, digital media marketing and communications in New York and Paris.

Alva is currently a Contributing Bilingual News Analyst/Reporter for NewsGuard Technologies. She evaluates and reports on the credibility of French-language news websites in an effort to combat false news, misinformation and disinformation.

She has an undergraduate degree from New York University and an MA in International Multimedia Reporting from the City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism.

Alva’s journalism work has appeared on NBC News, including Meet the Press, The New York Daily News, WNYC.org, The Associated Press, BuzzFeed News, and Reuters TV.

Updated February 2019