Genevieve Caron walks through the revolving doors of the Maison de Radio-Canada at 3 a.m. First the weekend info, at ICI RDI. Last Saturday, October 7, already at the end of the night, the host and his team realized that we had to follow the last minute international news: rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
However, around 5 a.m., when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his country at war with Hamas, and news of hostages and deaths began to arrive at their usual pace, Genevieve Caron and her troops understood the entire weekend. The following events could even be dedicated to these events that rocked the entire planet.
“Everything we produced, 90%, was set aside. From five minutes to five minutes, it evolved very quickly. Everyone mobilized,” recalls the 35-year-old journalist, still amazed at the resources his boss devoted to finding the best experts in geopolitics who could explain the conflict on the spot.
“It was very serious. In such an environment, we have to remember that if the audience has a reflex to turn on the TV, it is to understand, not to listen to each other’s dirty words. One phrase comes to me often in these moments: We live it together. »
I, too, needed experts to understand what that meant. Together, we have explained it to each other, and I, like a belt, ask questions that you cannot ask …
Genevieve Caron
Photo by Hugo-Sébastien Aubert, The Press
Genevieve Caron at Maison de Radio-Canada
Building your confidence
If so, when taking the lead First the weekend infoIn place of Caroline Lacroix, in mid-September, Genevieve Caron drew up a list of the most compelling contingencies that could occur during her show, and the resurgence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would surely have occurred to her. Top 3.
But the communicator did not panic. Even better, he describes this hectic morning as a “beautiful experience.” “Once you’ve done that, it allows you to build your confidence and the next time, you’re stronger and better prepared,” analyzes the woman, who began her career at Radio-Canada in 2011 in Saskatchewan, then in Ottawa.
In 2016, this public broadcaster, whose heart he had tattooed, invited him back to Montreal to hire him to cover legal cases. He says the “court” was his office for seven years. Her followers on Twitter saw her tweeting faster than a shadow about, among others, check-ins from Tony Accurso, Gilbert Rosen, Eric Salle, and Harvey Weinstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York before we drove off. First the weekend info.
“I still love justice, it gives access to incredible human stories, representative of social problems. It brings humanity, understanding of man,” Genevieve Caron mentions about her first loves.
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