Host Stéphan Bureau, at the helm of the show The world upside downat TVA, won the Media Personality of the Year award on Wednesday from the team of In the mediawhich, for the first time in six years, has decided to reward local artisans.
“I’m not unhappy at all, I’m happy”, launched Stéphan Bureau on the set of Marie-Louise Arsenault, visibly uncomfortable to receive this distinction. “I’m not crazy about that: our job is not to be the center of attention. I say it sincerely, it’s not false modesty. »
No gala, no audience, no statuette. This first edition of the In the media awards took place in sobriety on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the last episode of the season of the show broadcast on Télé-Québec. “We had wanted to give out prizes for several years; this year, we organized ourselves to do so,” explains host Marie-Louise Arsenault in an interview with Duty.
Each week, its collaborators Vanessa Destiné, Arnaud Granata, Philippe Léger and Monic Néron dissect the mechanisms of production of information and image, while taking a critical look at the environment. “We felt that it was also part of our job to shed light on the quality of the work of colleagues,” she adds.
The choice of Stéphan Bureau as media personality of the year was one of the most obvious. His show The world upside down, which launched last fall, quickly caught the eye and found a loyal prime-time audience. “Stéphan Bureau conducts good interviews and he is a character who deserves that we are interested in his career at the present time”, specifies Mme Arsenault.
For the Relève prize, Mayssa Ferah was selected, because of “the humanity that emerges in her cover”. The journalist from The Press specializes in crime and news stories, a coverage area often overlooked by journalists. “Me, I really liked it the first time. I like to meet people. There, it’s a meeting at a time when the person is going through the worst moment of their life, then they agree to confide in you […]it’s really a privileged moment, ”said the latter on the set of the show.
We felt that it was also part of our job to shed light on the quality of the work of colleagues
Other winners include photojournalist Ivanoh Demers for his images of the Canadian radio digital story ” The dreamland is not America. This is Canada ». In a journalistic investigation, Brigitte Noël and Pasquale Turbide were rewarded for their reports The Miller system And They called him Bob…, presented to Investigation. The prize for international reporting goes to journalist Louis-Philippe Bourdeau, from Noovo Info, for his coverage of the war in Ukraine “with more modest means than other news channels”. Finally, Angie Augustin, alias Citron Rose, received the Content Creation prize for her dance videos and humorous capsules.
The team also awarded a Media Frenzy award. “There were several suitors. We thought of Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge for his appearance at the Gémeaux awards. Or, recently, to Gilles Proulx and his remarks on Québec solidaire. But it was Jean Boulet who won,” says Marie-Louise Arsenault. The remarks of the CAQ minister on immigrants made in the middle of the election campaign – which the media quickly invalidated – particularly marked the spirits.
Finally, the public was able to take part in this first edition of the In the Media Awards by giving their opinion (through a survey conducted in collaboration with the firm Léger) on the subjects that the media have talked about too much. Verdict: the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple formed by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as well as the war in Ukraine.
The show In the media will return to Télé-Québec for a seventh season next fall, still hosted by Marie-Louise Arsenault.