François Bachy is a French

France

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 television journalist. Born in Saint-Cloud

Saint-Cloud

Saint-Cloud is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.Like other communes of the Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine or Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of the wealthiest cities in France, ranked 22nd out of the 36500 in...

, Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is designated number 92 of the 101 départements in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris...

, after a law degree and a master's degree in political science, he entered the training center for journalists.

Career

He made his career on TF1

TF1

TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

, where he started as a journalist in the economic department (1984–1985), then the service policy (1985–1989). He presented the news broadcasting

News broadcasting

News broadcasting is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio or internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network...

 at 11 PM on weekends (1989–1991) and show '7 arts à la une (1989–1993), and became for a while Grand reporter for Culture (1991–1993).

Bachy remains a political journalist : he became Deputy head (1994–1996) and Chief of the policy department and Deputy editor (1996–2002) and Chief editor in the economic and political departments (since 2002).

During the presidential campaign of 2002, he hosted a "campaign news" in Jean-Pierre Pernaut

Jean-Pierre Pernaut

Jean-Pierre Pernaut is a news reader and broadcaster on French television. He is widely known simply by his initials, JPP....

's new broadcastings at 1 PM.

It was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite

Ordre National du Mérite

The Ordre national du Mérite is an Order of State awarded by the President of the French Republic. It was founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle...

 by Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac

Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...

 on 3 May 2007.

He is Deputy Director of Public Information, in charge of the political center since 2008.

Since 2008, he hosted Le Blog Politique on TF1 and La Chaîne Info

La Chaîne Info

La Chaîne Info, or LCI is a French cable news channel. The network provides 24-hour national and global news coverage.-History:LCI was created on June 24, 1994, by Christian Dutoit on behalf of the media group TF1....

 (LCI).

He was the author of two books about François Hollande

François Hollande

François Gérard Georges Hollande is a French politician. From 1997 to 2008, he was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. He has also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France, representing the first constituency of Corrèze, since 1997. He previously represented that seat...

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