François Bachy

He has worked his entire career on TF1, where he started as a journalist in the economic department (1984–1985) before transferring to the political department (1985–1989).

From 1989 until 1991, he presented the 11 p.m. weekend news and '7 arts à la une from 1989–1993.[1] He also worked as the Grand Reporter for TF1's cultural department. (1991–1993).

Bachy was predominantly a political journalist. Within TF1 he worked as Deputy head (1994–1996) and Chief of the domestic policy department, as well as Deputy editor-in-chief (1996–2002) then he became Editor-in-Chief in the economic and political departments (2002 onwards). As Editor-in-Chief for the departments of economics and politics, he ran an analysis of the new political arrangement on each French election night. In the same way, he is also a regular pundit on the 8 p.m. news, discussing political events. During the presidential campaign of 2002, he hosted a "campaign diary" on Jean-Pierre Pernaut's news broadcasts at 1 p.m.

He was decorated Knight of the National Order of Merit by Jacques Chirac on 3 May 2007.

He is Deputy Director of Public Information, in charge of the political centre since 2008.

In 2008, he hosted Le Blog Politique on TF1 and 'La Chaîne Info' (LCI).

He is the author of two books about François Hollande.[2]

• François Hollande, un destin tranquille, (François Hollande, a Quite Destiny) Plon, 2001
• L'énigme François Hollande, (The Enigma François Hollande) Plon, 2005