Aymeric Caron | |
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Born |
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France |
4 December 1971
Occupation | Television journalist, radio journalist, columnist |
Notable credit(s) | On n'est pas couché (columnist) |
Television | France 2 (2012–15) |
Aymeric Caron (born 4 December 1971), is a French radio and television journalist.
Aymeric Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the department of Pas-de-Calais, the son of a teacher and primary school director and a nurse mother. He first thought about becoming a cartoonist, but after having seen a war reporter, he found his vocation of journalist. He studied a Classe préparatoire lettres et sciences sociales (literature and social science) at the Lycée Faidherbe of Lille and then graduated at the École Supérieure de Journalisme of Lille in May 1995. He then left France to work in Shanghai in a studio of radiophonic production of the French consulate. He came back in France working for the channels TF1, LCI and France 3.
In 1998, he joined Canal+ working as a journalist. He is in charge by the redaction of the channel, to cover different conflicts like those from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo and Iraq. With several journalists, he joined the team of the news information during the fusion of the redaction from the channels Canal+ and I-Télé in June 2001. He also replaced some presenters during their vacation period.
From March 2006 to June 2008, Aymeric Caron hosts from Friday to Sunday the morning news of the weekend on I-Télé. He presents at the same time i>Matin infos, a morning program common to Canal+ and I-Télé, during summer 2006 and 2007. Matin Week-end is a news segment alternating reportages, chronicles and interviews. In October 2007, one of his interviews strongly opposed him to Nadine Morano, who was the official spokesperson of the French Union for a Popular Movement, close of president Nicolas Sarkozy. He then left the channel at the end of the season in 2008.