Samuel Danzon‑Chambaud, PhD

R&D Project  Director & Researcher |  Capgemini

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Work experience

2022-now         France

R&D project director & researcher, Capgemini

• Part of Capgemini’s research-through-design team and R&I Lab; research focus on remodeling professional practice following AI adoption, through the use of participatory design

• Developed Algoprax , a serious game on bridging the gap between professional norms and AI use, to be used across a wide range of industries and professional domains (developed as part of the EU AI Act’s call to implement codes of conduct)  

• Currently involved in other R&D efforts to bring social and human sciences expertise to AI developments (confidential)
• Writing dissemination material and scientific briefing notes; participation in research conferences
• Innovation funding

2018-22          Ireland

Research fellow, Dublin City University

• Doctoral contract under an EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship to investigate the impacts of automated news on the work of media practitioners and give recommendations (i.e., thesis, academic articles, reports, news stories)

• Selected as a Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, for the year 2020; wrote a report on the use of automated news during COVID-19 that was shared with media practitioners and executives
• Secondment at BBC R&D to study the broadcaster’s use of automated news; wrote a white paper that was shared with BBC’s tech leadership
• Awarded a FASPE fellowship (“Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics”) to reflect with other participants on professional journalism ethics through a study program online (field trip canceled because of COVID-19)
• Took part in the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar organized in 2019 by the European Commission and the U.S. Department of State in Brussels, which focused that year on fake news and disinformation

2011-18             Canada    

Reporter & web supervisor, CBC/Radio-Canada

• Multiplatform journalist then editorial supervisor for online French content in Western Canada

• TV, web, radio, live hits, data journalism (which had high impact and made the national headlines); worked at the Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary newsrooms
• Oversaw the work of a team of a dozen web journalists based across Western Canada; identified news stories to be covered and made sure their articles met editorial, legal and linguistic standards

Education

2018-23           PhD in Communications – Dublin City University  

Thesis on automated news made as part of JOLT, an EU’s Marie  Skłodowska-Curie research network that investigated how to harness digital and data technology for journalism through the work of 16 PhD students, based at partnering institutions across Europe.

• Mixed, qualitative & quantitative research methods
• Media innovation and enterprise, project management (incl. Agile), intellectual property
• Research ethics

2011-13           Master of Journalism – The University of British Columbia  (CA)

• Integrated journalism, advanced video journalism, social media
• Journalism ethics, media law
• Traveled to Brussels for a study tour of EU’s institutions as a 2013 recipient of the EU-Canada Young Journalist Award conferred by the European Union Delegation to Canada

2009-10          M.A. in History – Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)

• Master thesis on the French pre-Revolution as seen by the British newspaper The Times

2008-09           Erasmus program – The University of Birmingham  (UK)

2005-08          B.A. in History – University of Franche-Comté  (FR)

Industry reports

• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2021). Automated news at the BBC. BBC Research & Development. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/automated-news-at-bbc-algorithmic-journalism
• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2021). Covering COVID-19 with automated news. Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Available at: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/covering-covid-automated-news.php

Academic publications

• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2026). Algoprax, a serious game to start bridging the gap between practice and A.I. use. CoDesign. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2026.2645089
• Danzon-Chambaud S. & A. Cornia (2024). The cultural capital you need to work with automated news: Not only “your beautiful piece of work”, but also “patterns that emerge”. Journalism. doi: 10.1177/14648849241279579
• Danzon-Chambaud S. & R. Dumesny (2023). Looking for the ‘true nature’ of academic research on design: a systematic review of 27 PhD theses. Conference short paper, IASDR 2023. doi: 10.21606/iasdr.2023.690
• Danzon-Chambaud S. & M. Foissac (2023). Professional Ethics by Design: Co-creating Codes of Conduct for Computational Practice. Workshop paper, CHI’ 23. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.07478
• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2023). Automated news in practice: a cross-national exploratory study. Open Research Europe, 3(95). doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.16040.3
• Danzon-Chambaud S. & A. Cornia (2023). Changing or Reinforcing the “Rules of the Game”: A Field Theory Perspective on the Impacts of Automated Journalism on Media Practitioners. Journalism Practice, 17(2). doi: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1919179
• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2021). A systematic review of automated journalism scholarship: guidelines and suggestions for future research. Open Research Europe, 1(4). doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13096.1

• Danzon-Chambaud S. (2023). Automated news in practice: changing the journalistic doxa   during COVID-19, at the BBC and across media organisations. PhD thesis, Dublin City University. https://doras.dcu.ie/28004/

Media contributions

• Capgemini R&I's Medium [2]: https://bit.ly/4jzSrwm
• Poynter Institute [3]: https://bit.ly/3f3IxDX
• Columbia Journalism Review [2]: https://bit.ly/3AoS1Dx
• Les Cahiers du journalisme [2]: https://bit.ly/4frhUWh
• La Revue des médias [1]: https://bit.ly/3ts365t
• CBC/Radio-Canada (selection of signed texts): https://bit.ly/47GnmRd

International conferences/workshops

• Cumulus Association’s international design conference, École de design de Nantes, June 2025
• International francophone conference on human-computer interaction (IHM), demo night, Sorbonne Université, Paris, March 2024
• International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) biannual conference, Politecnico di Milano, October 2023
• Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) workshop, Hamburg, April 2023
• European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Journalism Studies Section Conference, University of applied sciences Utrecht, June 2022
• Understanding the Dynamics of (Ir)Responsible AI in Journalism and Algorithmically Shaped News Flows, International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference, Paris, May 2022
• International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference, May 2021 (virtual event)
• Computation + Journalism Symposium, February 2021 (virtual event)
• Challenges of Journalism in 21st Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism, Charles University in Prague, September 2020 (virtual event)
• News Automation at Work, doctoral workshop (co-organizer), Dublin City University, November 2019
• International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) annual conference, Complutense University of Madrid, July 2019

Course taught

• Sorbonne Nouvelle University—Communication course: supervising the work of about 30 undergraduate students, whose main goal is to write an “academic investigation” on a topic dealing with digital media.