Skip to main content
Go back

Louise Plante

Portrait of reporter Louise Plante. She is wearing a green top
Appartenance Mauricie Société d’histoire régionale, Le Nouvelliste Fonds (F31811-003). Unknown photographer.
Louise Plante worked as a reporter from 1981 to 2015. Previously, she had briefly worked in the field of law. She started her career at a regional office of Le Nouvelliste. The first woman assigned to the newspaper’s La Tuque office, she went on to cover political and labour news for three decades. Meanwhile, her interest in the labour movement led her to become president of the staff union at Le Nouvelliste. She won the Claude Masson Prize, awarded by the Association canadienne des périodiques catholiques (Canadian Association of Catholic Periodicals) for individual excellence in French-language print journalism in Canada.