Françoise Laborde (journalist)
| Françoise Laborde | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 May 1953 (age 64) Bordeaux |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist, television presenter, writer |
| Years active | 1979–2009 |
| Employer | France 2 |
| Organisation | Member of from 2009 to 2015 |
| Known for | Journal de 13 heures |
Françoise Laborde (born 1 May 1953 at Bordeaux) is a French journalist, writer and television presenter.
Between January 2009 and January 2015, she was a member of the French TV and Radio Regulatory Council (CSA).
Her father, an English teacher and school inspector, was a teacher in the USA where he published a book on French civilization. Her mother, a Spanish woman, was a member of a Franco-British resistance network in World War II and decorated as such by the Queen of England. She has two older sisters, Geneviève and Catherine Laborde, a weather presenter and writer. The three sisters spent several summers in the United States with their parents between 1960 and 1967 and were partly educated in American schools.
After studying literature at the Lycée Camille-Jullian in Bordeaux, Françoise Laborde attended law school at the University of Bordeaux 1, where she obtained a DEA in business and law.
In 1979, she went to Brussels and contributed to the magazine Europolitics. At the same time, she was a correspondent for Radio France Internationale.
From 1982 to 1985, she specialized in economic and social affairs at RMC.
From 1985 to 1993, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor of TF1.
From 1993 to 1995, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor at France 3.
In 1995, she was appointed head of the economic and social departments and deputy editor at France 2.
In 1997, she became editor of Télématin and has since then presented the political interview show Les 4 vérités.
At the end of 1999, she became the substitute presenter for Béatrice Schönberg for the weekend news show on France 2. It was expected that beginning in March 2007 she would be acting presenter of the weekend news show for a few months, as Schönberg was temporarily dismissed from her post during the election campaign because of her marriage to Jean-Louis Borloo, a government minister. But in September 2006 Élise Lucet, presenter of the France 2 news programme Journal de 13 heures, announced her pregnancy; thus Laborde instead replaced Lucet, while Laurent Delahousse, who had recently come over from channel M6, became the substitute presenter for Schönberg.
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