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We learned with sadness and emotion of the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Wednesday March 2. The journalist was 71 years old and was battling cancer. The man who was the face of TF1’s 13 Hours newspaper loved his job, the regions and the people.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who presented the 13 Hours television news on TF1 for 33 years, died of cancer at the age of 71 on Wednesday March 2. The journalist was very moved on the set of his last JT, on December 18, 2020. A newspaper that he wanted to be popular and close to viewers. Born in Picardy, Jean-Pierre Pernaut made his debut in the region, in rural France which he knows very well.
In 1988, he arrived at the helm of 13 Heures and set up a network of regional correspondents. The subjects of the terroirs have become the Pernaut signature. “He marked the French because his diary was a mirror”, testifies the animator Jean-Pierre Foucault. Tributes, unanimous in the political and media world, salute the memory of a great figure of French television.