Claude Askolovitch leaves France Inter's morning show after 8 years: his new challenge on the Novo 19 channel

After Léa Salamé this Thursday , it is another endearing personality who signs his last in the morning of France Inter this Friday since Claude Askolovitch, incumbent in the press review that he embodies for 8 years in which he very often highlighted the subjects of the Nice-Matin group, also stops. At 62 years old, the journalist with multiple hats and big fan of the Gym of the 1970s, the one who lost to Nancy of Michel Platini in the final of the Coupe de France 1978, was a master in the art of telling the news through the French press. A didactic and precious exercise that the man perfectly embodied.

In September, the journalist will be working on Novo 19, the new TNT channel from the Ouest-France group, as part of Claire Arnoux's team, the headliner of the daily talk show. "There's no sadness, I've been on an extraordinary morning show for 8 years on a sublime radio station, where I had France at my disposal, along with the entire press, " analyzes "Asko." Indirectly, I've met millions of people, and the press titles have given meaning to my job."

So for eight years now, the press man has been getting up at 2 a.m. five days a week, a physical fatigue that explains his desire to stop: "I'm finishing this year exhausted, like every July," he laughs.

“Anything that grabs your heart makes a good press review.”

By dint of traveling around France through more than sixty press titles every day, Claude Askolovitch has become fond of all the good stories. "Anything that grabs your heart, or your head, makes a good press review," he continues. "The stories choose themselves. I loved doing this little whimsical tour of France. I learned that the French press created society, that the link still existed and that the regional daily press confirmed that we are not a country of hysterics. I loved reading how a sporting event could be approached by two regional press titles with a different eye each time, you learn a lot. France exists daily, humanly, carnally, and it's comforting. And more simply, I learned a lot of things by reading you, I was enriched, it was an absolute blast, it's up to me to say thank you," he concludes.

At the start of the school year, Nora Hamadi will have the heavy responsibility of taking over from Claude Askolovitch at the head of the press review when the latter officiates on a daily program on Novo 19.