Pierre Haski is a French

France

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 journalist

Journalist

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, co-founder of Rue 89

Rue 89

Rue89 is a French news website. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its news editor is Pascal Riché, former Op-ed editor of Libération, and its chief editor...

. He was deputy editor of Libération

Libération

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from January 2006 till his departure in 2007 from the daily.

Life

Haski started his career in 1974 as a journalist for the Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse

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 (AFP), and was its correspondent in South Africa from 1976 to 1980. He then joined the staff of the daily Libération

Libération

Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...

in 1981. At first responsible of the Africa section, he then was charged of its diplomatic section between 1988 and 1993. Haski went on a number of international assignments, corresponding from South Africa

South Africa

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, Jerusalem (1993–1995), and China

China

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 (2000–2005), and serving as head of the foreign correspondent division from 1995 to 2000. He was stationed in Beijing

Beijing

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 from 2000 through 2005, during which he posted a blog

Blog

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 on the newspaper's website, Mon Journal de Chine ("My Journal from China"), which access was blocked by the Chinese authorities. During his time in China, he came across the diary of a schoolgirl in a remote province, which he edited and published in the West as The Diary of Ma Yan. From January 2006 to 2007, he was deputy chief-editor of Libération.

In the turmoil of the crisis at Libération, he resigned from his functions in 2007 and co-founded, in March 2007, the Internet newspaper Rue 89

Rue 89

Rue89 is a French news website. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its news editor is Pascal Riché, former Op-ed editor of Libération, and its chief editor...

, along with Arnaud Aubron, Michel Lévy-Provençal, Laurent Mauriac, Nicole Pénicaut and Pascal Riché

Pascal Riché

Pascal Riché is a French journalist, co-founder of Rue 89 along with Arnaud Aubron, Laurent Mauriac, and Pierre Haski.- Life :...

. In September 2007, he also worked for Europe 1

Europe 1

Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio network created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radio broadcasters and heard throughout France...

radio.

Books

• Ma, Yan, and Pierre Haski (2005). The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060764961. ISBN 9780060764968.