Karine Baste is a French journalist and news presenter from Martinique.
16 Facts About Karine Baste
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Karine Baste began her career as an image producer while interning at Societe de Radiodiffusion et de television Francaise pour l'Outre-mer.
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Karine Baste is the daughter of the father who is a police inspector and her mother is a nurse.
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Karine Baste is the youngest of five sisters and all of them share a close relationship; she and her siblings were instilled the value of work by her parents and was raised on land owned by her family.
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Karine Baste was educated at Saint-Joseph de Cluny and then at Lycee Acajou in Le Lamentin, where she obtained her Baccalaureat.
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Karine Baste began her career in broadcasting, working as an image producer while interning at Societe de Radiodiffusion et de television Francaise pour l'Outre-mer.
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In 2007, Karine Baste had her first appearance on television, presenting the local news programme Magazine Caraibe.
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In 2016, Karine Baste was chosen to read the overseas news from 6:00 in the morning on the 24 hour television news channel France Info from 1 September of that year.
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Karine Baste got the job after an encounter with the channel's director Stephane Dubun in Paris, and successfully applied for the position via telephone in July 2016.
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Karine Baste spent the next three television seasons at France Info before moving to join the breakfast television programme Telematin alongside Laurent Bignolas in 2019 as well as reading the news as a relief presenter on 13 heures at 1:00 in the afternoon on France 2.
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Karine Baste has worked as a contributor to the monthly debate magazine Resonance, presented the programme Caraibe on an alternate basis with Sonia Laventure, contributed to the programme Camera direct, and was on the Ca fait l'actu programme on France Info.
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In September 2020, Karine Baste was reassigned to be the relief presenter of the news programme Journal de 20 heures for Anne-Sophie Lapix in place of Julian Bugier who moved to 13 heures during weekdays from January 2021.
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Karine Baste ended up replacing Lapix for a period of time during the following month.
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Karine Baste is on the board of France Televisions's directors as a director representing employees.
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Karine Baste has been married to the journalist Patrick Regis and they have one child.
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Karine Baste changed her name from Baste-Regis to Baste in late 2021.