As a journalist, Virot reported on 22 editions of the Tour de France. In 1929, he broadcast the first radio report of the Tour. In 1932, Virot broadcast a summit finish at the Col d'Aubisque, the first live radio broadcast from a summit finish. Virot also covered football, boxing, motorsports and skiing, as well as the first French national lottery draw in 1934. He covered the 1932 International Lawn Tennis Challenge. During the 1930s, Virot also worked as a war reporter. During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Virot interviewed Ethiopian King Haile Selassie. In 1938, he left his coverage of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1938 to travel to Austria to provide a live report of the German annexation of Austria, in defiance of Nazi censorship of the event. After the Second World War, he worked for Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française and Radio Luxembourg.