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Bruno Masure

French journalist and presenter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2926885
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Bruno Masure (born 14 October 1947) is a French journalist, news anchor and television presenter.

Early life and education

Bruno Masure was born in Lille in the department of Nord. He graduated with a degree in history, economic science and political science. He also graduated at the Institut d'urbanisme de Paris.

Career

Masure began his career working for the tutorial at the Faculté de droit de Lille. He then did an internship at the political service of the daily newspaper Le Monde. He later became a political journalist on RMC from 1973 to 1975 and on TF1 since 1975, where he covered the campaign of François Mitterrand in 1981.

A famous reporter on TF1, Masure hosted the Journal de 20 heures from July 1984 to July 1990. From September 1990 to October 1997, he hosted the Journal de 20 heures on Antenne 2 which later became France 2 in 1992.

From 1999 to 2003, Masure was a columnist in the program Vivement dimanche prochain hosted by Michel Drucker on the same channel.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bruno Masure” as french journalist and presenter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1973, 1975, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-10-14. The account is most persuasive where Bruno, Masure and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french journalist and presenter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2926885. VIAF identifies the subject as 19698252. The Library of Congress control number is n88647063. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1973, 1975 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from Bruno Masure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.