page_title: Michel Venne
hierarchical_section_title: Michel Venne
caption_attribution_description: English: Michel Venne at the 2012 Forum mondial de la langue française in Quebec City. Français&#160;: Michel Venne au Forum mondial de la langue française en 2012 à Québec
context_page_description: Michel Venne is a Quebec journalist, author and intellectual. He is a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence and of progressive, social democratic politics.
  Venne studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal and political science at Université Laval, in Quebec City. At Le Devoir, he has been parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec, editor, and news director. He is editor of L'annuaire du Québec, an exhaustive annual publication on Quebec affairs, sold in bookstores.
context_section_description: Michel Venne (born in 1960) is a Quebec journalist, author and intellectual. He is a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence  and of progressive, social democratic politics.
  Venne studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and  political science at Université Laval, in Quebec City. At Le Devoir, he has  been parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec, editor, and news director. He is editor of L'annuaire du Québec, an  exhaustive annual publication on Quebec affairs, sold in bookstores.
caption: Michel Venne in 2012
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