- Laurence Ferrari
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expand = August 2008
notable = August 2008
unreferenced = August 2008Laurence Ferrari (born
July 5 ,1966 ) is a Frenchjournalist and currently anchor of theTF1 weekday evening news.Biography
Early life and formation
Ferrari was born in
Aix-les-Bains ,Savoie [ [http://www.tele7.fr/tv/personnalite-tele/laurence-ferrari Ferrari biography on Télé 7 Jours magazine] (RetrievedSeptember 5 ,2008 )] in 1966, as the daughter of the former deputy-mayor of the city, Gratien Ferrari and has Italian ancestry. She attended the École Française des Attachés de Presse (French School of Press Secretary) inLyon and graduated from the Sorbonne University with a Master of Communication Politic and Social.Media career
She started her career in 1986 as a copywriter at the
AFP and "Le Figaro Magazine". She was also on theEurope 1 radio as a chronicor about health policy. She began her television career in 1994 withMichel Drucker in "Studio Gabriel" onFrance 2 and thereafter withJean-Pierre Pernaut in "Combien ça coûte ?" onTF1 . In 2001, she co-hosted the TF1 sunday evening magazine "Sept à Huit" with her former husband Thomas Hugues. After her divorce, she moved in 2006 toCanal + to present the channel's weekly political magazine "Dimanche +" where she covered the French presidential election of 2007. In June 2008, she was announced as the new anchor of "Le 20 Heures de TF1", the most watched television evening news ofEurope replacing Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, after twenty-one years presenting the show, and began as anchor onAugust 25 ,2008 .References
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