[1][2][3] Carole Chatelain spent her early years in Chad and Madagascar, before enrolling in literary preparatory classes in 1981 at the Lycée Berthollet in Annecy (France), prior to a Modern Literature Master's at the University of Lyon III.
Carole Chatelain started her career as a journalist at the daily Lyon-Figaro in 1986 where she joined the news team notably covering Action directe and chronicling the judicial proceedings in criminal court.
Carole Chatelain was also entrusted the same year with the news section of the Ça m'intéresse magazine.
Carole Chatelain became Editor in Chief of the daily newspaper 20 Minutes in 2005 prior to holding the same position for the Sciences et Avenir magazine in 2008.
[4] She was promoted Managing Editor for both Sciences et Avenir and La Recherche magazines by Claude Perdriel, founder and director of the press group, in January 2021.