Claude Askolovitch announces the end of his press review on France Inter

Each week, from Monday to Friday, Claude Askolovitch Book his press review in the morning animated by Léa Salamé and Nicolas Demorand at 6:15 am and 8:47 am. Arrived in 2017 on the waves of the France Inter station, the journalist will hang up next July, at the end of the season. With our colleagues from Libérationhe explained himself on his departure. A decision made because of his age and the schedules inherent in a morning in radio.

“I am 62 years old. For 8 years, I have gotten up 5 days a week at 2 am, and this ten months a year. I sleep three to four hours a night. I took expensive, I kept the shock, but you have to know how to be reasonable. This is the only reason that pushed me to stop ”he says. If its shape dulls, its passion has not had a wrinkle. “If I was ten years younger, I would continue, because there is nothing more beautiful than a radio morning”he underlines.

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“Claude reinvented the press review”

In Télérama who announced the news a few weeks ago, Adèle Van Reeth, the director of France Inter, reacted to her choice. “Claude reinvented the press review, with his tone, his choreography. He converted it into an exercise in style. Many listeners listen to him because it’s him ”she greets. What about his replacement? We have to be “Leave time”she said again. “”I want this moment to remain a key meeting. It is an exercise where it takes a pen, and almost a vision of the world“, Specifies the owner.

Whoever combines more than 1,700 press journals alone, according to the magazine Telerama, Since taking office in place of Hélène Jouan, will not be retired. Indeed, he will always officiate on Arte within the program “28 minutes” in which he presents his column entitled “The history of the week”.

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