After working on private continuous news channels, Patricia Loison presented “le grand Soir 3” on France 3. Every day at 6 p.m., she now hosts an international political program on France Info channel 27.
His attraction to international news? Patricia Loison thinks she owes it to her personal story. She was adopted from India when she was only 6 months old because her parents followed the news of the world. She believes that it “saved her life”.
At the microphone of François Beaudonnet at the “Comptoir de l’info”, the journalist says that her origins represented neither a handicap nor an advantage for her. Because, she believes she was “soaked in white” as soon as she arrived in her family in France, and that therefore, she feels “so French”.
As for knowing if she was chosen because she would be the representative of a visible minority, Patricia Loison, a bit provocative, fully assumes: “So much the better! If there is a brunette on the air, very dark on thirty blondes, very blondes, well, I’m not harming anyone!”
“At the info counter” is the first native (audio) podcast of France Télévisions. In the form of a journalistic interview, an actor who produces public service television information — a major reporter, a cameraman, a presenter — comes to give himself up, tell, reveal the way he works. In a sound atmosphere of a coffee counter, he confides his doubts, his joys, but also his fears when he is on the ground or in the studio. Since May 2021, the podcast “At the info counter” has also received journalists from Radio France (France Inter, France Info, France Culture) at its microphone.
The series is produced by François Beaudonnet, editor-in-chief Europe, columnist for franceinfo (channel 27), senior reporter for France 2 and columnist for the program “Nous, les Européens” on France 3. Former correspondent in Rome and Brussels, he began on the radio where he presented the 1 p.m. news on France Inter.
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This episode was directed by Timothée Le Hec