Jean-Claude Guillebaud

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Jean-Claude Guillebaud at the Semaines sociales de France in 2014
Born (1944-05-21) 21 May 1944 (age 79)
Nationality French
Occupation Journalist
Employer La Vie

Jean-Claude Guillebaud (born 21 May 1944 in Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.

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Biography

A journalist at the daily Sud Ouest , then at the newspaper Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur , Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the Coordination française pour la Décennie  [ fr ] of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published La force de conviction  [ fr ]. He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of Le Nouvel Observateur before replacing Jacques Julliard as columnist at Le Nouvel Observateur from November 2010. [1] He also keeps a chronicle of observation of French society and politics in the Catholic weekly La Vie . Since June 2008, he has been a member of the supervisory board of the press group Bayard Presse.

In 2016, he presided the 23rd Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre.

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