At 45, Pascale de la Tour du Pin is a regular on the major non-stop news channels. She began her career at BFMTV in 2008, where she remained for almost 10 years, first as a joker presenter and then settling on the morning show Première Édition, alongside Christophe Delay. Between them, they then gather nearly 2.6 million viewers every day, rising to 2e rank of TV mornings in France. Between 2017 and 2021, Pascale de la Tour du Pin leaves BFMTV for LCI where she presents the morning between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. In August 2021, she returned to BFMTV to host Le Déj Info from Monday to Friday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., a program punctuated with local information and interaction with viewers.
With a busy start to the year (presidential election, Ukraine, climate change, etc.), how did you manage to keep up? What are your tips for coping with pressure?
Pascale de la Tour du Pin: Take a step back… The news is sometimes anxiety-provoking, you have to know how to take some distance. To get there, I put on my sneakers and go for an hour’s walk every day. I discovered walking a few years ago. Its benefits are spectacular: physically and mentally… It feels good to clear out the brain.
What is your strongest journalistic memory this year? For what ?
February 24: the day Russia launched its offensive against Ukraine… War was declared. We were all in a state of amazement. No international expert believed that Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine in the previous days. We entered special edition that day and stayed there for a month. A war that has bereaved the writing of BFMTV. Our colleague Frédéric Leclerc Imhoff died in the field with the camera in hand. I have a lot of respect for the work of the special envoys who take considerable risks to bring him information…
Soon the holidays, do you manage to detach yourself from the news and the screens during the summer? Do you have any tips for really disconnecting?
I’m swapping my laptop for books! And if it picks up badly in my resort… That’s pretty good news, isn’t it?
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