French politician and former radio and television journalist
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Caron is the son of a teacher and primary school director and a nurse mother.[2] He first thought about becoming a cartoonist, but after having seen a war reporter, he found his vocation of journalist.[3] He studied a Classe préparatoire lettres et sciences sociales (literature and social science) at the Lycée Faidherbe of Lille and then graduated at the École Supérieure de Journalisme of Lille in May 1995. He then left France to work in Shanghai in a studio of radiophonic production of the French consulate. He came back in France working for the channels TF1, LCI and France 3.
Television career
In 1998, he joined Canal+ working as a journalist. He is in charge by the redaction of the channel, to cover different conflicts like those from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo and Iraq. With several journalists, he joined the team of the news information during the fusion of the redaction from the channels Canal+ and I-Télé in June 2001. He also replaced some presenters during their vacation period.
From March 2006 to June 2008, Aymeric Caron hosts from Friday to Sunday the morning news of the weekend on I-Télé. He presents at the same time Matin infos, a morning program common to Canal+ and I-Télé, during summer 2006 and 2007. Matin Week-end is a news segment alternating reportages, chronicles and interviews. In October 2007, one of his interviews strongly opposed him to Nadine Morano, who was the official spokesperson of the French UMP, close of PresidentNicolas Sarkozy. He then left the channel at the end of the season in 2008.
In September 2014, after a confrontation with Bernard-Henri Lévy about the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict on the same program, Aymeric Caron apparently received threats that were serious enough for the Paris Police Prefecture to reinforce the patrol around his home. In September 2015, he was replaced by Yann Moix who is now a polemicist on the program.
Radio career
During summer 2009, he presented the morning section of Europe 1 from Monday to Friday, replacing Marc-Olivier Fogiel. In September 2009, the direction of the station put him in charge of the presentation of the morning section on weekends. He was then replaced in September 2010 for the morning section to present on Sunday evening. He was also the substitute presenter of Jean-Marc Morandini on Le Grand Direct and Le Grand Direct des Médias from Monday to Friday. In February 2001, she presented again the morning section on weekends, and left the station in July 2011.
Animal rights activism
A fervent defender of animal rights,[4] Aymeric Caron has been a vegetarian since the 1990s.[5][6] In 2013, he published a book about this engagement titled No Steak, with sales of more than 30,000 copies. In late 2014, he announced that he had become vegan.[citation needed]
In July 2015, he participated at Fort Boyard on France 2 with Damien Thévenot, Gérard Vivès, Carinne Teyssandier, Laurent Maistret et Hélène Gateau. They earned 12,690 euros for the association L214.
