The Board of Directors of the Quebec Press Council announced on Monday the appointment of Pierre-Paul Noreau as President, making him the 10and person to hold this position since the creation of the Board in 1973. He will take office on 19 May.
Mr. Noreau will thus replace Paule Beaugrand-Champagne, retired and information consultant in Montreal, who assumed the presidency of the Council since 2014.
Holder of a Bachelor of Arts from Laval University, Pierre-Paul Noreau began his career in his hometown of La Tuque, working in a weekly newspaper and on the radio. He was later hired by The sun as a journalist, where he held various positions. His longest assignment was as parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa.
After having successively been desk editor, director of the economic pages, news editor, editorial director, vice-president and assistant editor for the daily newspaper of Quebec, he took the reins of the newspaper The right in 2015 as President and Publisher.
Since 2019, he has been President of the Michener Awards Foundation, which supports, stimulates and celebrates investigative journalism in the service of the public interest. Involved in various organizations, he notably sat on the boards of directors of News Media Canada, the Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec, RecycleMédias and the Institut du Savoir Montfort.
“This appointment is excellent news for the Press Council,” said the Secretary General of the Press Council, Caroline Locher, in a statement released by the organization. The quality of information has always been at the heart of Pierre-Paul Noreau’s work and accomplishments, and his leadership is well established. »
Working for nearly 50 years “to protect press freedom and defend the public’s right to quality information”, the Press Council is a private, non-profit organization. Its mandate extends to all news media distributed or broadcast in Québec, whether or not they are members of the Conseil, whether they belong to the written or electronic press.