Martin Weill

Martin Jean Weill (born 11 April 1987 in Paris, France) is a French television journalist. Since September 2016 he has worked as a foreign correspondent for the nightly news and entertainment programme Quotidien, broadcast on TMC. From 2013 to 2016 he worked in a similar role on Canal+'s Le Petit Journal.

Biography

Son of Pierre-Alain Weill, a printer, entrepreneur and socialist local politician, Martin Weill studied history at Paris-Sorbonne University and went on to study at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and at the University of Cardiff before graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. From there he began his journalistic career, aged 26, at the French national television channel TF1, producing reports for the 1 pm and 8 pm news programmes. Videos of the interview went viral in both the French-

Criticisms The association Acrimed strongly criticized Le Petit Journal's international reports, arguing that there was no real merit in the number of kilometers traveled or countries visited, and that "the omnipresence of reporter Martin Weill" was not very compatible with delivering quality international information.

In early December 2017, journalist Nassira El Moaddem accused Hugo Clément and Martin Weill of "harassment," "sexism," and "racism" during their time as students together in 2012.