Bruno Masure (born 14 October 1947) is a French journalist,
Biography of Bruno Masure on the site lisons.info
news anchor
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and television presenter.
Early life and education
Bruno Masure was born in Lille
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in the department of Nord
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. He graduated with a degree in history, economic science and political science
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. He also graduated at the Institut d'urbanisme de Paris.
Career
Masure began his career working for the tutorial at the Faculté de droit de Lille. He then did an internship at the political service of the daily newspaper ''Le Monde
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''. He later became a political journalist on RMC from 1973 to 1975 and on TF1
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since 1975, where he covered the campaign of François Mitterrand
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in 1981.
A famous reporter on TF1, Masure hosted the ''Journal de 20 heures'' from July 1984 to July 1990. From September 1990 to October 1997, he hosted the ''Journal de 20 heures'' on Antenne 2
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Since 3:20 CET on 7 Ap ...
which later became France 2 in 1992.
From 1999 to 2003, Masure was a columnist in the program ''Vivement dimanche prochain'' hosted by Michel Drucker on the same channel. He was from 2005 to 2011 a journalist and columnist on France Inter
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in the program ''Le Fou du roi'' with Stéphane Bern
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.
Books
* ''La télé rend fou... mais j'me soigne !'', Plon, 1987
* ''À pleins tubes'', Orban, 1989
* ''Le dictionnaire analphabétique'', Orban, 1990
* ''Leurre de vérité'', Plon, 1993
* ''Débloc notes'', Plon, 1998
* ''Chérie, pense à changer de millénaire'', Plon, 2000
* ''Loft présidentiel'', Plon, 2002
* ''Un dernier vers pour la route'', Plon, 2002
* ''Comment se fait-ce ?'', Presses de la Cité, 2004
* ''Enquête sur mon assassinat'', Chiflet & Cie, 2006
* ''Les chats'', Hugo Image, 2007
* ''Journalistes à la niche ? : De Pompidou à Sarkozy, chronique des liaisons dangereuses entre médias et politiques'', Hugo et Compagnie, 2009
* ''Le journal d'une curée de campagne'', Chiflet & Cie, 2011
* ''La télé rend définitivement fou'', Chiflet & Cie, 2015
Honours
Bruno Masure received a 7 d'Or
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for the best presenter of the daily news in 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1998.
References
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1947 births
Living people
French television presenters
French journalists
Mass media people from Lille
French male non-fiction writers