He was the former editor in Chief of Le Monde and is a guest at several TV programmes at France 24 and BFM-TV. In the last 15 years he published 4 books, mainly about politics and the society. Patrick Jarreau started his career as a free-lance journalist (1974) and later on he joined the Agence France-Presse wire agency in 1975 till 1977 to switch to Le Monde. At Le Monde he was a political correspondent and covered the Parliament (1977-1979),