After being a production assistant for Le Droit de savoir with Charles Villeneuve from 1993 to 1996, she joined France 2 from September 1996 to June 1997 to present the program Déjà dimanche with Jean-Luc Delarue.
From 1997 to 1999, Carole Rousseau also presented several special programs such as Tirage de la Coupe du Monde at the Stade Vélodrome of Marseille, and Le Millénium on 31 December 1999 with Jean-Claude Narcy.
At the second part of the evening, after Célébrités, she rose to fame in the 2000s with two magazines, Scrupules and C'est quoi l'amour ?.
In Scrupules, produced by Jean-Luc Delarue, anonymous guests had to justify behaviors and ways of living judged immoral in front of a public they had to deal with.
She also presents on channel TMC the program 90' enquêtes, mostly about delinquency including reports with the police, and 90' Faits Divers.