His seminars focus on the connections between journalism and the social sciences. He is also the producer of the radio programme “La Suite dans les idées” on France Culture, a forum for discussion of the leading works of social science and literary criticism. He is the editor of AOC, an intellectual daily online news media that will be launched in January. He was deputy editorial director and an editorial writer for the daily newspaper Libération, having previously been a journalist at Mediapart and deputy director of the Inrockuptibles cultural pages. Sylvain Bourmeau has long reflected on the links between journalism, the social sciences and literature, three fields that are generally considered separate, and on the question of the political and literary representation of society.