Françoise Laborde (journalist)

On 3 February 2015, the Prime Minister appointed her to the High Council for Equality between Women and Men [fr].

On 7 June 2013, the High Court of Paris found Éditions Fayard, publisher of the book, guilty of plagiarism, stating that it was "manifest that the text in question reproduces, very often word for word, the plaintiff's work".

In February 2012, Laborde and Denise Bombardier were accused by the website Acrimed [fr] of plagiarism in connection with their 2011 book Ne vous taisez plus!. The two authors deny this.

Between January 2009 and January 2015, she was a member of the French TV and Radio Regulatory Council (CSA).

On 24 January 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the Republic, appointed her to the TV and Radio Regulatory Council.

Laborde is married to Jean-Claude Paris, the former head of Canal+ Belgium and i>Télé. She has two sons from a previous relationship with Manuel Joaquim, TF1 reporter, winner of the Albert Londres prize, who died in 2006.

At the end of 1999, she became the substitute presenter for Béatrice Schönberg for the weekend news show on France 2. It was expected that beginning in March 2007 she would be acting presenter of the weekend news show for a few months, as Schönberg was temporarily dismissed from her post during the election campaign because of her marriage to Jean-Louis Borloo, a government minister. But in September 2006 Élise Lucet, presenter of the France 2 news programme Journal de 13 heures [fr], announced her pregnancy; thus Laborde instead replaced Lucet, while Laurent Delahousse, who had recently come over from channel M6, became the substitute presenter for Schönberg.

In 1997, she became editor of Télématin and has since then presented the political interview show Les 4 vérités [fr].

In 1995, she was appointed head of the economic and social departments and deputy editor at France 2.

From 1993 to 1995, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor at France 3.

From 1985 to 1993, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor of TF1.

From 1982 to 1985, she specialized in economic and social affairs at RMC.

In 1979, she went to Brussels and contributed to the magazine Europolitics. At the same time, she was a correspondent for Radio France Internationale.

Her father, an English teacher and school inspector, was a teacher in the USA where he published a book on French civilization. Her mother, a Spanish woman, was a member of a Franco-British resistance network in World War II and decorated as such by the Queen of the United Kingdom. She has two older sisters, Geneviève and Catherine Laborde [fr], a weather presenter and writer. The three sisters spent several summers in the United States with their parents between 1960 and 1967 and were partly educated in American schools.

Françoise Laborde (born 1 May 1953) is a French journalist, writer and television presenter.