Jacques Beauchamp leaves the ICI Premiere

I leave feeling that my journey on Radio-Canada is over, […] but also many professionals desire to spin into more personal projectshe explained on the air, adding that he made his decision a few months ago.

When I leave, I give myself the freedom that will allow me to search left and right, to find you perhaps here, and certainly elsewhere … Life is short and the world is big, like of what they say, and I want to start. enjoying it sooner rather than later.

News on Now the story

Originally from Outaouais, Jacques Beauchamp began his journalistic career at Radio-Canada in 1987, covering news for television in Winnipeg. He then branched out into radio, hosting shows in Regina, Ottawa and Toronto.

National correspondent in Toronto for two years, he came to Montréal in 1999. He was notably a reporter for Present indicative and in Desalt.

In 2013, he took the helm of the show No lunch without informationwhich prompted him to cover live the parliamentary shooting in Ottawa on October 22, 2014, as well as the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the hostage taking of Hyper Kosher in January 2015, in Paris.

Between 2015 and 2021, the Raymond-Charette prize winner from the Higher Council of the French language, in 2019, hosted more than 1000 episodes of the hit show Now the story.

A special Thursday

Since September, Jacques Beauchamp has been on the microphone of Travel, talking to personalities from art, politics, sport and even the business world against the background of the archive. Next Thursday, at 9 p.m., he will replace the guest with a special broadcast of Travel to be dedicated to him and directed by Catherine Perrin.

This news came after the announcements, in recent weeks, of the departure of some figures from the world of radio and television, such as Pierre Bruneau, Joël Le Bigot or even Bernard Drainville and Paul Arcand.