Martin Weill
Martin Weill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 April 1987 |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
Martin Jean Weill (born 11 April 1987 in Paris, France)[1] is a French television journalist. Since September 2016 he has worked as a foreign correspondent for the nightly news and entertainment programme Quotidien, broadcast on TMC. From 2013 to 2016 he worked in a similar role on Canal+'s Le Petit Journal.
Biography
Son of Pierre-Alain Weill, a printer, entrepreneur and local politician,[2] Martin Weill studied history at Paris-Sorbonne University and went on to study at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and at the University of Cardiff before graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.[3] From there he began his journalistic career, aged 26, at the French national television channel TF1, producing reports for the 1 pm and 8 pm news programmes.[1]
From September 2012 to June 2013, Weill worked as a reporter for Canal+'s Sunday afternoon programme Le Supplément. Since 26 August 2013 he has worked as a special correspondent for the nightly news and entertainment programme Le Petit Journal, hosted by Yann Barthès.[1] He has reported from a large number of countries around the world; in January 2016 it was reported that he had accumulated 553 803 kilometres of travel in a little over two years of working for Le Petit Journal, or the equivalent of 14 trips around the world.[3] Weill speaks English, French, Spanish, and some Portuguese.[3]
In the days following the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, Le Petit Journal sent its reporters on to the streets of Paris to document the public's reactions.[4] Weill recorded an interview with a six-year-old boy named Brandon, who, when asked if he understood why the attackers had done what they had done, responded: "Yes, because they're really, really mean. Bad guys are not very nice. And we have to be really careful because we have to change houses."[5] Videos of the interview went viral in both the French-[4] and English-speaking world.[5] Brandon and his father were later invited to Le Petit Journal's studio to be interviewed once again by Weill and Barthès.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "Martin Weill: Envoyé spécial pour Le Petit Journal". Le Mouv' (in French). 22 November 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
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- ^ a b c Tatu, Natacha (17 January 2016). "Martin Weill, le nouveau visage de l'info". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ^ a b c Lebreton, Claire (20 November 2015). "Touchant et amusant : Le Petit Journal invite le petit garçon qui a ému la France avec sa phrase : "Les méchants, c'est pas très gentil" (VIDEO)". Télé-loisirs (in French). Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ a b Levy, Megan (19 November 2016). "Paris attacks: father and son's talk about 'bad guys' shared around the world". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 March 2016.