Karine Baste

Karine Baste (formerly Baste-Régis; born 11 October 1982) is a French journalist and news presenter from Martinique. She began her career as an image producer while interning at Société de Radiodiffusion et de télévision Française pour l'Outre-mer (RFO). Baste then worked as an editor of subjects relating to Saint Barthélemy and Saint-Martin before making her first on-screen appearance in 2007. She works for France Télévisions and has read the news on the Télématin, 13 heures and Journal de 20 heures programmes as well as on the France Info news channel.

Biography Baste was born on 11 October 1982 in the town of Schœlcher in Martinique. She is the daughter of the father who is a police inspector and her mother is a nurse. 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. She was educated at Saint-Joseph de Cluny and then at Lycée Acajou in Le Lamentin, where she obtained her Baccalauréat. Upon leaving school, Baste had spent the previous three years studying at the school. Baste made the decision to return to Martinique in July 2009, She got the job after an encounter with the channel's director Stéphane Dubun in Paris, That year, she also hosted a programme on the Zika virus at the France Télévisions headquarters in Paris. Baste made her final appearance on Télématin on 7 April 2021, so that she could focus on being the relief presenter of Journal de 20 heures full-time before the 2021/22 season. She is on the board of France Télévisions's directors as a director representing employees.

Personal life She has the sobriquet KBR. She changed her name from Baste-Régis to Baste in late 2021.