About Jean-Luc Mongrain
Jean-Luc Mongrain (born July 16, 1951, in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist, television host and news anchor. He was the news anchor of his own show called Mongrain on LCN (owned by the TVA network) until 2012. == 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. 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 called Dernière Heure. He also founded in 1982 a local newspaper called La Nouvelle, which was acquired by Paul Desmarais's Power Corporation and renamed La Tribune. For nearly 10 years he hosted his own show called Mongrain de sel, where he gave up his view and commentary of the news along with some interviews.
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