Journalist Sylvie Aubut retires after 35 years of career

She has been a television and radio journalist, assignment editor, desk editor and newsreader for radio bulletins.

We cut our interviews with razor blades in those days, there was nothing digital. We had to go and do research in the libraries. remembers the one who touched all the positions of the Matane station.

The resident of Val-Brillant in the MRC de La Matapédia has a weakness for training young journalists. She introduced each of the newcomers to the Matane station to the basics of the trade.

During the segment of the surprise program devoted to him on Au coeur du monde, several of them testified to his rigour, his gentleness and his patience during these privileged moments.

My greatest pay is knowing that the young people liked the trainingreplied the new retiree after hearing the tributes. I like feeling good at work and I want others to feel good too.

At the microphone of Radio-Canada, Sylvie Aubut reported many moments that turned the lives of Gaspésiens and Madelinots upside down.

But the anecdote that comes to mind when asked to recount a highlight of his career is a meeting with children from Grande-Vallée.

She had been assigned to the reopening of a local factory. After doing the usual interviews with the elected officials and officials of the region, she realizes that there is nothing on her recording tape.

Instead of being discouraged, she tries her luck and knocks on the school door. The teacher welcomes him and allows him to question the students, many of whom expressed their happiness to him to know that their dad could now sleep at home instead of going to work on the North Shore.

This is one of the reports of which she was most proud. because he had a new and unseen angleshe says, but also for the message it evoked.

First of all, it reflected the rebirth of the region which had lived through many difficult years. Also, the anecdote shows that you should never give up despite the obstacles, how a technical glitch can be turned into an opportunity.

Among the people who marked her, she evokes the former mayor of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, the late Micheline Pelletier, whom she considered exceptional. Mrs. Pelletier was for Sylvie Aubut an impressive woman who fought until the very end for her region. She spoke effectively and colorfully.

Sylvie Aubut finds that exchanges between journalists and the government are increasingly difficult. We do not have access to the machinery of government as we had when I started. Before, we could talk to a deputy minister easily so that he could explain a file to us, and now it’s completely closed. It takes access to information requests, it takes weeks to get information. It is much more difficult.

She left the airwaves to retire in her native region, the Matapédia Valley.