Jean-Luc Mongrain

Jean-Luc Mongrain (born July 16, 1951 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Quebec journalist and news anchor.

Background

Mongrain studied at the Université de Sherbrooke and earned a bachelor's degree in theology in 1975. Prior to that, he was an entrepreneur at the age of 9 when he owned a small snack shop near a construction site. [http://www.journaledition.com/2003/tete_a_tete/j_mongrain/j_mongrain_aou01.php]

Mongrain started his journalism career in 1974 when he hosted public affairs shows on the radio and later in 1986 on television. He was also a journalist at a local radio station in Sherbrooke.

In 1986, he worked as a journalist and a host at the TVA television network, first in Sherbrooke and then in Montreal. During the same year he hosted a public affairs show called L'Heure juste and was an editor of a magazine revue called Derniere Heure. [http://www.usherbrooke.ca/leadership/leaders/galerie/theologie/a_mongrain.html] He also founded in 1982 a local newspaper called La Nouvelle which was acquired by Paul Desmarais's Power Corporation and renamed La Tribune [http://www.journaledition.com/2003/tete_a_tete/j_mongrain/j_mongrain_aou01.php] . For nearly 10 years he hosted his own show called Mongrain where he gave up his view and commentary of the news along with some interviews. He also briefly worked at Tele-Québec, the province's public television network

In 1999, Mongrain joined the TQS television network and has been the news anchor of the Grand Journal evening news, the provincial edition. The show airs every weekdays from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Mongrain is the anchorman from September to the end of spring.

He is also nicknamed by the TQS network as the black sheep of news information (French: Le mouton noir de l'information). He often uses a humor, energetic and charismatic view, style and attitude while giving up his news and opinions. His work gave him several Metro Star awards during his 30+ year career in the media and communication industry in Quebec. He is also heavily involved in the community.

Mongrain stepped down as anchor for TQS in May 2008 (which after the sale of the network to Remstar it will no longer produced news bulletins staring in October 2008) It was reported that he will host a new 90-minute talk show on LCN starting in the spring of 2009. [http://lcn.canoe.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2008/08/20080819-140249.html]

External links

* [http://www.tqs.ca/showbiz/vedettes/jean-lucmongrain/ TQS Biography of Jean-Luc Mongrain]
* [http://www.usherbrooke.ca/leadership/leaders/galerie/theologie/a_mongrain.html Biography from the Universite de Sherbrooke]