After serving as press attaché at the French embassy in Bahrain (1979–1980), he was free lance Gulf correspondent for several French speaking media (1981–1982), based in Bahrain.
In 1995, he was appointed deputy-editor in chief at Radio Monte Carlo Moyen-Orient (SOMERA), an Arabic speaking broadcasting corporation based in Paris. In 1998, he returns to the Foreign desk of RFI, covering the Middle East. From 2000 to 2005, he is deputy editor in chief of RFI's multimedia newsroom. In 2005, he is appointed RFI's Foreign editor and has been subsequently RFI's week-end editor in chief from 2010 to 2023.
He is currently associate researcher at IRIS.
Da Lage has published several books and numerous articles on the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula as well as on India and is a regular lecturer at IRIS (Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques), a Paris-based foreign policy think tank, and has taught in several Journalism colleges on journalism ethics and Press law.
Union activities
A member of the French National union of journalists (SNJ), he has chaired the Press card committee of which he was a member from 1993 to 2003.
He is also a member of AREG (Authors’ Rights Expert group) of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). In May 2007, at the IFJ congress in Moscow, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the IFJ and in May 2010 at the Cadiz congress, as vice-president. He did not run for the vice-presidency at the Dublin Congress (June 2013) but was reelected at the Executive Committee.
In 2009, he took part in the drafting of the new ethical code of French journalists.[1]
