Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (born 29 September 1937)
is a French journalist.
Biography
Elkabbach was born to an
Algerian Jewish family in
Oran
Oran ( ar, وَهران, Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the north-west of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria after the capital Algiers, due to its population and commercial, industrial, and cultural ...
in 1937, then the prefecture of the ''
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...
d'Oran'' in
French Algeria
French Algeria (french: Alger to 1839, then afterwards; unofficially , ar, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the ...
. He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...
, but having taken part in the strikes of
May 1968
The following events occurred in May 1968:
May 1, 1968 (Wednesday)
* CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, was formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
* RAF Strike ...
, he was sidelined and sent to
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and fr ...
. Elkabbach would later spend time in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
,
Germany
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, before venturing into television news in 1970. From 1993 to 1996 he served as president of
France 2
France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews.
Since 3:20 CET on 7 A ...
and
France 3
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It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...
, from 1999 to 2009 he was president of the television station
Public Sénat
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, and he was at the helm of
Europe 1 from 2005 to 2008.
[
Elkabbach presents ''Bibliothèque Médicis'' on Public Sénat, during which he interviews an eclectic mix of international literati, political leaders, intellectuals, and historians.]
Works
Books
* (with Édouard Balladur)
* (with Nicole Avril)
*
Television
*''François Mitterrand: conversations avec un président'', documentary filmed between April 1993 and June 1994, broadcast on France 2 in May 2001 in five episodes
References
External links
*
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1937 births
Living people
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
People from Oran
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
French people of Algerian-Jewish descent
French male non-fiction writers
French television journalists
Sciences Po alumni