David Pujadas

Who is David Pujadas?

David Pujadas was born in Barcelona, on December 2, 1964, to a Spanish father and a French mother.

A former news broadcaster for TF1's LCI, he now is an anchorman on France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 20:00 CET in Metropolitan France. He has anchored these newscasts since September 2001, when he replaced Claude Sérillon, on orders from Olivier Mazerolle, the new France 2 news director.

The newscasts Pujadas presents are repeated in Canada on TV5 Monde weeknights at 6:30 North American Eastern Time, and in Australia on SBS at 9:20 weekday mornings.

In Metropolitan France, the audience for France 2's flagship evening newscast, at 20%, is less than the 26% audience share garnered by Laurence Ferrari's TF1 evening newscast

David Pujadas has gone to the middle East for interviews of the Iranian and Syrian Presidents.