Jean-Baptiste Giraud is the founder and editorial director of Economie Matin. He is also an economic interviewer on RTL In RTL Grand Soir (weekdays, 10:17 p.m.) since 2016.Jean-Baptiste Giraud began his career as a journalist reporter at Radio France, then spent nine years at BFM as a reporter, morning reporter, columnist and interviewer. At the same time, he was also a journalist for TF1, where he produced reports and short programs broadcast in prime time. In 2004, he founded Economie Matin, which became the first French economic weekly. This reached a distribution of 600,000 copies (OJD) in June 2006. A Spanish economic fund took control of the weekly in 2007. After creating several companies in the process (Versailles Events, Versailles+, Les Editions Digitales), Jean -Baptiste Giraud participated in 2010/2011 in the launch of the pure player Atlantic, of which he remained editor-in-chief for a year. In 2012, asked by an investor to create an economic pure-player, he decided to relaunch EconomieMatin on the Internet with the historical investors of the first round of Economie Matin, paper version. He was also an economic columnist on South Radio from 2016 to 2018. Jean-Baptiste Giraud is also the author of numerous books, including “How much does it cost, how much does it bring” (Eyrolles), “Great minds are always wrong”, “Why do stripes have zebras”, “Why do the woods have deer”, “Beast stories” (Editions du Moment) as well as “the Guide to becébranchés” (L’Archipel).
