Pascal Riché (born June 1962) is a French

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, co-founder of Rue89 along with Arnaud Aubron, Laurent Mauriac, and Pierre Haski. He is currently the deputy editor of

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(previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur).

Life

Pascal Riché is a former alumnus of

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and of the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) journalism school. He started his journalistic career in ''

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'', the largest regional newspaper in France, and '' La Tribune de l'Economie'', before joining ''

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'' in 1989. There, he headed the economy service until 2000, when he was named Washington bureau chief (2000–2006). He then became Op-ed editor of the daily. Following the crisis at ''Libération'', Riché resigned from his functions and co-founded the Internet newspaper '' Rue 89'' in March 2007. He also has been a columnist for several media : '' DS magazine'', '' TPMCafe'',

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, Radio Nova. He is the son of the medievalist historian Pierre Riché.

Bibliography

He is the author of ''L'union monétaire de l'Europe'', with Charles Wyplosz, and ''La Guerre de Sept ans, histoire secrète du franc fort 1989-1996'' with Eric Aeschimann, which earned the 1997 Turgot Prize of the Best economic book of the year.

External links

his former blogLibération websiteRue89.com website
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