Alexandre Duval will lead first hour from the start of the school year

Journalist Alexandre Duval will take the helm of the Radio Matinale de Québec program First hour As of September 2, Radio-Canada announced.

Finding myself at the first hour microphone with this formidable team and the public in the great Quebec region, I could not hope betterreacted the main interested party on Monday. I am totally excited to open a new chapter of this flagship program in our media landscape, to give it a little of my color, while focusing on the ingredients that have ensured its success over the years: relevance, rigor, passion and proximity.

He succeeds the host and journalist Alex Boissonneault, who left the animation of the program in May to embark on politics within the Parti Québécois.

It is a return to the state-owned company for Alexandre Duval, who worked for ten years in Radio-Canada as a journalist and then as a parliamentary correspondent in the National Assembly. He left in the spring of 2024 to take up new challenges.

He has since signed his first try Obsession: elections! how electoralism weakens our democracies, which was published by editions after all. He also taught political science at Cégep Garneau as well as communication to UQTR.

Holding a master’s degree in political science, Alexandre Duval won an Judith-Jasmine prize in 2017 for his report on a friend of the author of the Grande Mosque terrorist attack.

Alexandre will proudly play the role of animator thanks to his liveliness, his rigor, his unifying tone and his ability to create sincere links with the public. I am convinced that he will continue to instill a team spirit and camaraderie within the show, like his predecessorsunderlined Catherine St-Vincent Villeneuve, regional director of Radio-Canada Québec.