After just over a year at the helm of the newscast Thread 17Noémi Mercier will soon leave the animation of the daily to devote himself to the production of documentaries for the news channel Noovo.
The news was announced to all employees on Monday morning. The head of antenna will host her last bulletin at 5 p.m. at the beginning of June.
However, this is not a departure from Noovo since she will become a host and producer of documentary content, in line with surviving sportbroadcast last January, was given as an example to the team.
« Noemi [Mercier] is the ideal person to lead this project, ”explained in an email the management of Bell Media, which owns the channel. It is specified that Noovo info wishes to invest more in the documentary niche in order to “produce more impact journalism”.
For their part, employees told the To have to have some concerns about the editorial direction that the information room will take following his departure. The arrival of a new chief or a new head of antenna could profoundly modify the functioning of the team as well as the content of the bulletin.
For the moment, the management has not announced who will replace Mme Mercier this fall and would not comment on the rumors about it. Internally, the name of Marie-Christine Bergeron has been circulating for a few days. The former LCN anchor and show host I had left TVA in December 2020, after 20 years of service for the broadcaster. At the time these lines were written, she had not called back The duty.
Remember that last March, during the Media Dynasty awards, Noémi Mercier was rewarded in the TV host of the year category.
Before signing for Noovo, she was a journalist at the magazine Newsand worked on the show In the media at Télé-Québec, where she was also host of the history magazine Kebec. His major reports and columns have earned him no less than six gold medals at the Canadian Magazine Awards and three Judith-Jasmin awards. She has also garnered nominations for the Michener Prize and the Albert-Londres Prize.