The House of journalists, born on May 6th, 2002 in Bobigny - Seine St Denis - took up its definitive premises on November 1st, 2003 in number 35 Cauchy Street, 15th district of Paris.
Settled on 3 levels in a 850 square meters former factory, it has 15 rooms among which 2 are fitted for handicaped people It can welcome 30 journalists per year for stays of a maximum of 6 months.
It offers to each resident a single room, allowing them to have some peace and intimacy, a daily purchase voucher for food, a local public transports card, and a phonecard.

The House is a place where people live, listen to each other and meet. Each day journalists live together with colleagues who, whatever their past was, have the same experience of repressions and exile, the same fears or hopes for tomorrow.

The House of journalists is also the place where the resident is waiting for his refugee's status. This status will allow him to integrate himself at least for a while, into French society. The waiting period is used to help in future integration. To help them discover and understand their host country, our country, is the first objective of the House.
The House offers excursions to the theatre, visits of exhibitions, French classes for nonFrench speaking people. It gives to its residents the national and international press, a library and a media library, a workshop of initiation on press software and a computer room benefiting from DSL Internet 24 hours a day.

Every 3 months residents create their own newspaper, The Eye of the exile.