Monday January 4, 2021, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau will present her first newscast on TF1. The 45-year-old journalist was chosen by the channel to take over from Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who will bid farewell to his loyal viewers on Friday, December 18, 2020 after 33 years at the head of the newspaper's teams. To prepare as well as possible, the new headline recruit left his post on France 2 as soon as his departure was announced. Because taking the place of JPP is not easy: Marie-Sophie Lacarrau must first get to know her new teams, and there is nothing better than going out to meet them. The Parisian followed her in the penultimate stage of her Tour de France by the 19 regional branches which produce 80% of the subjects.
A treacherous question
Local correspondents with whom she will work from 2021 were able to ask all their questions over coffee in the newsroom. "We will always have to do our annual subject on the Andros trophy ", asked "treacherously" one of them, as the newspaper reports. The journalist in question knew very well how much Jean-Pierre Pernaut is attached to this championship of car racing on ice in which he participates every year with his son Olivier. A question to which Marie-Sophie Lacarrau answered with a big smile.
It must be said that the new headline news figure does not want to upset the teams in their habits. “I just came to tell you: don't change anything! Neither the way you tell the stories nor the respect with which you meet the characters you honor! ", she said. The only editorial change will relate to purchasing power and the environment, two subjects close to his heart.
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