François de Brigode passes the baton to Laurent Mathieu after 27 years at the helm of the RTBF television news. For the journalist, the time of “after” has come, not always easy to cross, a real leap into the unknown…
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Co-head of MAD, Journalist in the Culture department
By Cédric PetitPublished on 6/11/2024 at 3:46 p.m.
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IHe already had tremors in his voice on September 5, when, at the end of Thursday bonushe announced that he was preparing to leave presenting the television news. He will probably still have some, this Thursday when he goes on air for what will be “his last” newspaper. “I didn’t want to fight too much,” explained François de Brigode in September, active for 27 years in the presentation of the daily high mass of information on RTBF. An extraordinary longevity in the French-speaking television landscape; It is therefore an important page which is turning, both for RTBF and for the journalist, 62 years old, after more than a quarter of a century at the helm of the most followed news in Wallonia and Brussels. François de Brigode has been part of all the great news moments of the last three decades, at the 7:30 p.m. meeting, since the 1is December 1997.
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