Ruth Elkrief (born 1 December

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) is a French- Moroccan

television journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. She worked on the 24-hour news channel BFM TV from 2005 to 2021.

Early life

Ruth Elkrief was born in Meknes, Morocco. Her great-uncle, Shalom Messas, was a rabbi. She emigrated to France with her family as a teenager. Elkrief graduated from

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. She earned a postgraduate degree in journalism from the

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Career

Elkrief was a correspondent for TF1 in

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in 1990. A year later, in 1991, she was appointed as the head of its political programmes. She joined

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in 1994 and BFM TV in 2005. In January 2021, she announced that she was leaving the channel. Fabien Namias, vice-managing director of the TF1 group's all-news channel, announced, on 31 March 2021, that Ruth Elkrief would be joining LCI. Elkrief became a Knight of the

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in 2008.

Personal life

Elkrief is married to Claude Czechowski. They have two daughters.

References

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