Marie-Laure Augry (born 27 February 1947 in
Tours
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) is a
French
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journalist. She is a member of the ''Club des médiateurs de la presse'' ( "Press mediators' club").
Career
After studying journalism at the IUT of Tours, Augry joined
ORTF as a political journalist in October 1972, before becoming a reporter in 1974, covering educational and youth issues. She continued as a reporter for
TF1
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and became a newsreader in July 1975.
From 1981 to 1988, she co-presented TF1's 1pm daily news magazine show, alongside
Yves Mourousi
Yves Mourousi (20 July 1942 – 7 April 1998) was a French television and radio news presenter and journalist. He was the TF1 midday news anchor between 1975 and 1988.
Information
During the 1980s, Mourousi was a member of the Association de ...
. Between 1988 and 1991, she hosted a weekly magazine show bearing her name, ''Allo Marie-Laure'', on TF1. In 1991, she joined ''
La Cinq
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'' ( "Channel Five") to present the lunchtime news on weekdays and ''Histoires vraies'' ( "True Stories") with
Paul Lefevre. A year later, following the collapse of La Cinq, Yves Mourousi, then Program Director of RMC, gave her a daily show called ''Passion'', which she continued for two years.
In 1993,
France 3
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offered her the chance to host a daily show, "Generation 3" co-produced with the CNDP (National Centre for Educational Documentation). From 1995 to 2002, she was editor and presenter of the daily magazine ''Un jour en France'' ( "One day in France") on France 3. Since September 1, 2003, she has been editor of France 3.
She is president of the "Club des médiateurs de presse" group, nominated in 2009, and assembled by
Bruno Frappat, to develop a new code of ethics for journalists, and act as ombudsmen.
References
External links
Marie-Laure Augry : "Le Scoop offre une vision globale du traitement de l’actualité " ''journalisme'', 29-11-2008
*This article was translated from
its counterpart on the French Wikipedia on 8 June 2011.
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Living people
Writers from Tours, France
French journalists
1947 births