Jean-Claude Guillebaud (born 21 May 1944 in Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.
Biography
A journalist at the daily Sud Ouest, then at the newspaper Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres.
He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the Coordination française pour la Décennie [fr] of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published La force de conviction [fr]. He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of Le Nouvel Observateur before replacing Jacques Julliard as columnist at Le Nouvel Observateur from November 2010.[1] He also keeps a chronicle of observation of French society and politics in the Catholic weekly La Vie. Since June 2008, he has been a member of the supervisory board of the press group Bayard Presse.