Céline Galipeau

Céline Galipeau
OC OQ
Born (1957-03-11) March 11, 1957 (age 67)
Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
OccupationNews anchor
Notable credit(s)Le Téléjournal weekend anchor
(2003–2008)
Le Téléjournal weekday anchor
(2008–present)

Céline Galipeau OC OQ is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-Canada. Known for her coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal.

Early life

Galipeau was born in Longueuil, Quebec in 1957.[1] She is the daughter of Georges Galipeau [fr], a French Canadian diplomat and Pham Thi Ngoc Lang, a Vietnamese refugee from the First Indochina War.[citation needed]

Education

Galipeau earned her master's degree in political science and sociology from McGill University in 1983. She also studied English literature at the Al-Ahliyya Amman University in Jordan / Wrong information since the University was founded in 1990 in 1976 and political science at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 1977.[citation needed]

Career

After a short stint in private TV and radio, Galipeau came to Toronto as a reporter for CBC and Radio-Canada in 1985 until she left for Montreal in 1987. In 1989, she returned to Toronto to become a national reporter. In 1992 she became a correspondent in London. Later, she transferred to Moscow where she covered Boris Yeltsin and the war in Chechnya. In 1997, she moved to Paris. In 2001, she became a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Galipeau won a Gemini Award for her coverage from Moscow.[citation needed]

She returned to Canada in 2003, becoming the weekend anchor for Le Téléjournal. She became the program's weekday anchor in December 2008 following the retirement of Bernard Derome.[2] She was succeeded as weekend anchor by Pascale Nadeau.[3]

Galipeau was named to the National Order of Quebec in June 2009,[4] then to the Order of Canada in May 2013.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Céline Galipeau". Ordre National du Québec (in French). Government of Quebec. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  2. ^ "Shakeups buffet Radio-Canada's news lineup" Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Gazette, June 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Cauchon, Paul (June 13, 2008). "Télévision - Deux femmes aux commandes du Téléjournal". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  4. ^ (in French) "Nominations et promotions de 2009: Ordre national du Québec Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine. Government of Quebec, June 17, 2009.
  5. ^ "Mrs. Céline Galipeau". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved March 23, 2024.