Radio / Television News

Bell Media hires news veteran Pineault to rebuild V newsrooms


MONTREAL – Bell Media announced Wednesday Jean-Philippe Pineault has been hired in the newly created role of general manager, news and information, for its newly acquired V TV stations, effective July 27. Most recently, he was news director at Cogeco Media, where he oversaw that company’s news talk radio stations. Prior to that he held management positions at The Canadian Press and TC Media. He began his career as a journalist working at a number of French-language publications at Gesca and the Journal de Montréal, says the Bell release. Pineault will report to Suzane Landry, vice-president, French-language content development and...