High-Value Skills at Le Nouvelliste
Interview with Louise Plante and Paule Vermot-Desroches
Clip duration: 45 s
From the collection of Appartenance Mauricie Société d’histoire régionale.
Louise Plante is a retired journalist who worked at Le Nouvelliste, and Paule Vermot Desroches is currently a reporter at the same newspaper. In this clip, they discuss Plante’s career.
Paule Vermot-Desroches: I’m interested in skills, news-related skills. How journalists operate today. I don’t think whether you’re a man or a woman is the main issue anymore. Today, it’s a matter of adapting to new technologies, to new ways of reporting the news, to new platforms for sharing information—social media and all that. So, the fact that you’re a man or a woman won’t necessarily change how the news is being reported. But still…
Louise Plante: Well, it still comes into play, but….
Paule Vermot-Desroches: But yeah, it’s…
Louise Plante: In my time.
Paule Vermot-Desroches: That’s what I was going to say.
Louise Plante: During my time, anyway. Things were seen differently in my time.