Mentor depuis 2021

Francis Sonier has been the Editor-in-chief of the Acadie Nouvelle since July 2009 after having been its Deputy Director for 9 months previously. This is Francis' second stint on the team for New Brunswick's only French-language daily newspaper. 

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In 1990, after obtaining his bachelor's degree in public communication from the Université de Laval in Québec, he settled in Acadia, his parents' homeland and began his journey with Acadie Nouvelle as a journalist. 

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Two years later, he decided to pursue his career as a journalist on the radio station of the Acadian Peninsula CKRO-MF, where he remained for two and half years.

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In January 1995, Francis began studying to obtain a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the Université de Moncton. At the same time, he was hired as a journalist for Radio-Canada Acadie. 

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In October 2008, he left the daily information for the administration of the Acadie Nouvelle newspaper. 

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Today, Francis leads a team of 55 employees and collaborators mainly based at the Caraquet head office and the Southeast office in Moncton. 

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In August 2017, Acadie Nouvelle acquired Éditions de la Francophonie and Francis also assumes its general management, succeeding his father Denis, who founded the publishing house in 2001. 

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From July 2015 to September 2021, the editor-in-chief of Acadie Nouvelle also acted for more than 6 years as chairman of the board of directors of Réseau.Presse, an association that brings together 25 French-langague newspapers working in minority, outside of Quebec. 

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