Jean-Claude Guillebaud
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Jean-Claude Guillebaud | |
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 Guillebaud in 2014 | |
| Born | 21 May 1944 Algiers, French Algeria |
| Died | 8 November 2025 (aged 81) Angoulême, France |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | La Vie |
Jean-Claude Guillebaud (21 May 1944 – 8 November 2025) was a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.
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 was a member of the sponsorship committee of the Coordination française pour la Décennie of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published La force de conviction. 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 kept a chronicle of observation of French society and politics in the Catholic weekly La Vie. Since June 2008, he was a member of the supervisory board of the press group Bayard Presse.[citation needed] In 2016, he presided the 23rd Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre.[citation needed]
Guillebaud died in Angoulême on 8 November 2025, at the age of 81.[2]
