Catherine Joie

Catherine Joie was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with The Immense Waste – UCLouvain and Women.

Catherine Joie is a freelance journalist based in Brussels. She practices investigative journalism with a feminist methodology, which for her means paying particular attention to sources and protecting them.

Her current research interests include sexism, changes in the Belgian justice system (domestic violence), power struggles in higher education, rents and private property, and population movements in Brussels.

She works with Médor, axelle, RTBF, Alter Echos and teaches journalism at IHECS (Brussels, haute école de journalisme).

Runner-up at the European Press Prize in 2023 for Ailing Brussels and in 2021 for Money To Burn.