She studied business and finance in Paris and Madrid, and worked in marketing for a cosmetics company in Europe and the Middle-East. Five years into the job, she decided to make a career change and converted to long-form business journalism, covering telecoms, art, banking, and media for a Lebanese publication in French. While working as a print reporter, she witnessed the development of multimedia journalism on the web: stories told in photos, videos, audio, maps and text. In 2013, she decided to pursue her Masters of Journalism at Columbia University where she focused on videos for the web. Marie-José is currently working at the Columbia Journalism School as a Digital Media Fellow. She is auditing an interactive design class and working on her own multimedia project.