Legendary radio and television journalist, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach died this Tuesday, October 3 at the age of 86, according to information from Paris Match.
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach began his career in the 1960s on television in France, before becoming one of France’s leading political journalists.
A former great voice on Europe 1, a radio station he first joined in 1981, he chaired the station between 2005 and 2008. He also produced the daily 8:20 a.m. political interview there before his departure in 2017, replaced by Fabien Namias. In 2021, he returned to Europe 1 where he was in charge of the major weekend morning interviews until July 2023.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach was also president of France 2 and France 3, which became France Televisions. Position that he had to leave in 1996 after the scandal of the contracts made to animators-producers