Yann Barthès


Yann Romain Barthès is a French journalist, TV presenter and producer, best known for hosting the television programme Le Petit Journal and Quotidien.

Life and career

Barthès first studied English at the University of Savoy in Chambéry before reorienting to journalism by integrating, between 1995 and 1998, the "Sciences of Information and Communication Institute" at the Bordeaux Montaigne University, in Bordeaux. Barthès became a journalist in 2002 on the show + clair, a weekly program dealing with media issues, which aired on Saturday afternoons on Canal +.
In 2004, he joined Le Grand Journal, for which he presented a nightly segment entitled Le Petit Journal People. From 2007, he also presented Le Petit Journal Actu. In 2011, Le Petit Journal became a separate program, with Barthès as the main presenter. On 9 May 2016, it was announced that Barthès would be leaving the show after 23 June 2016. On the same day it was announced that Barthès and his team would begin two new programmes to be broadcast on the channels TMC and TF1 later in the year. The daily show Quotidien was first broadcast on TMC on 12 September 2016.

TV Shows

2004 - 2016 :
Since 2016 :
Variations of Quotidien :