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Judith Jasmin was a
journalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
from
QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. Born in
Terrebonne, QuebecTerrebonne is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in western Quebec, Canada. It is located on the north shores of the Rivière des Mille-Îles and of the Rivière des Prairies, North of Montreal and Laval....
,
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, she was the first woman from Quebec to become a
grand reporter (special correspondent).
Jasmin's journalistic career began at Radio-Canada's world service at the end of the 1940s. It was there she met future Quebec premier
René LevesqueRené Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...
with whom she would go on to co-host the radio program
Carrefour. In 1953, Jasmin entered Radio-Canada's television news service where she made a name for herself with such programs as
Reportages and
Conférence de presse. All the while, Jasmin continued to take to the streets, listening to the people in order to denounce injustices. She was a founding member of the
Mouvement laïque de langue française ("The Francophone Secular Movement").
She spent the next few years of her life abroad, meeting seminal figures of the time and sharing her experiences with the Quebec public. Despite the many obstacles she faced throughout the course of her career, Jasmin's talent and determination allowed her to join the ranks of the great Quebec journalists.
In 1966, Radio-Canada named Jasmin their
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correspondent and, later, their Washington correspondent.
After being diagnosed with cancer, she returned to
MontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
in 1970 where, despite her illness, she continued to report on public affairs.
She died in Montreal in 1972.
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