Charline Vanhoenacker
Charline Vanhoenacker in 2016.
Born	La Louvière, Belgium

Charline Vanhoenacker (born 31 December 1977 in La Louvière, Belgium) is a Belgian francophone journalist, humorist, radio host and producer.

Vanhoenacker's parents were teachers at the secondary school at La Louvière, where she was born and completed her school years. Her childhood in the industrial centre of Belgium had a profound impact on her and gave her a firsthand view of the upheavals of deindustrialization. In a 2020 interview she commented: “The region where I come from, […], a region of metallurgy and coal mining , […] is called La Louvière. It is an industrial and mining area that I saw decline throughout my childhood, comparable to Roubaix or Florange. This is my breeding ground, so I read politics and society through this prism." ^[1]

After studies of French literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles, she obtained a degree in journalism from the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris. Her master’s thesis explored the language of humour in Belgian humorist Philippe Geluck’s comic strip “Le Chat.” ^[2]

Having started her professional careeer at Le Soir news magazine in Belgium as a freelance writer, she changed to Belgium's French-language public broadcaster RTBF in 2010 as their correspondent in Paris. In 2012, she covered the campaign with growing success for the 2012 French presidential election for La Première radio station. Following this, French journalist Daniel Schneidermann invited her to also cover the presidential campaign for his online magazine Arrêt sur images. ^{[3] [4]}

Starting in 2012, Vanhoenacker became a popular columnist for France Inter, where she hosted and produced several radio shows. These were full of ironical comments on politicians and often sparked controversy. Further, the shows and its columnists have been considered by several observers to favour left-wing ideas. Vanhoenacker commented that her orientation supports progressive political views and that she would vote for "a not-too-corrupt socialist, or a pragmatic green politician." All media combined, this led to the biggest number of referrals to the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) in 2020. The CSA, however, declared on several occasions that the comments made in the programmes "cannot be considered as exceeding the limits of freedom of expression." In 2020, her daily show By Jupiter! was enjoying growing success and had an audience of 1.3 million listeners per day on average. ^[5] At the end of 2023, Vanhoenacker had to stop her shows after protests concerning a controversial sketch about Benjamin Netanyahu by her colleague Guillaume Meurice. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

• Bonjour la France. Paris: éditions Robert Laffont. 2015. ISBN  978-2-221-19028-9..
• with Guillaume Meurice, Cami (2019). Le cahier de vacances de Manu sous-title=monsieur le président de la République. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN  978-2-08-148144-2.
• Debout les damnés de l'Uber. Paris: éditions Denoël. 2020.
• Le cahier de vacances de Manu: monsieur le président de la République (vol. 2). Paris: Flammarion. 2020.
• Aux vannes, citoyens! Petit essai d'humour politique. Paris: Denoël. 2022. ISBN  978-2207165201.
• with Lecoq, Titiou; Thouron, Zoé (2023). En vacances, Simone!. Paris: Denoël. ISBN  978-2-207-16955-1.