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Claude Beauchamp is a journalist, publisher, and political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec. ==Journalist and publisher== Beauchamp began his career as a financial writer for ''La Presse'' and served as assistant publisher and editor-in-chief of ''Le Soleil'' in the late 1970s. He became president and general manager of Publications Les Affaires Inc. in 1980, one year after the company purchased the business journal ''Les Affaires''. Beauchamp relaunched the journal as a tabloid and later oversaw the company's purchase of smaller, niche-oriented papers such as ''Quebec Construction'', ''Revue Commerce'', ''Quebec Yachting'', ''VeliMag'', ''Voile Libre'', ''Ski Quebec'', and ''Sports Marketing Canada''.〔"Quebec paper to publish again after 10 months," ''Globe and Mail'', 4 July 1978, p. 8; Ian Rodger, "Quebec media gearing for vital role in run-up to referendum," ''Globe and Mail'', 16 November 1979, p. 10; "Bombardier listed 12th among firms in Quebec," ''Globe and Mail'', 9 July 1982, p. 2; "COMPANIES IN THE NEWS LES AFFAIRES," ''Globe and Mail'', 31 July 1982, p. 13; "Les Affaires makes buy," ''Montreal Gazette'', 12 January 1985, p. 11; "More magazines bought," ''Montreal Gazette'', 16 March 1985, p. 4.〕 Corporate revenues rose under Beauchamp's leadership from less than $1 million in 1980 to $13 million in 1985. He remarked on his success in November 1985, "The market was there for years, but nobody was serving it."〔"Business newspapers wage fierce battle for market share," ''Montreal Gazette'', 20 November 1985, p. 17.〕 Beauchamp was awarded the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society's Olivar-Asselin Award for excellence in journalism in 1984.〔"Move over Metro -- Montreal's in economic fast lane," ''Toronto Star'', 4 June 1986, p. 18.〕 Two years later, he presided over a Montreal economic summit called by mayor Jean Drapeau.〔John Sewell, "The significance of the summit," ''Globe and Mail'', 20 June 1986, p. 8.〕 Between 1987 and 1990, he launched English-language papers entitled ''This Week in Business'' and ''Good Times, The Magazine for Successful Retirement'', and oversaw the purchase of a French-language seniors' weekly called ''Le temps de vivre''.〔"GTC weekly coming Jan. 23," ''Montreal Gazette'', 23 October 1987, p. 11; Robert Gibbens, "English business weekly planned by Montreal firm," ''Globe and Mail'', 23 October 1987, p. 11; "Magazine industry eyes seniors," ''Windsor Star'', 5 March 1988, p. 7; Kevin Dougherty, "GTC launches 55-plus magazine," ''Financial Post'', 9 March 1990, p. 21.〕 He resigned as president of Publications Les Affaires Inc. in 1990.〔"Head of publishing unit quits," ''Montreal Gazette'', 2 August 1990, p. 1.〕 In late 1990, Beauchamp was named as co-chair of a "rescue brigade" set up by the Quebec government via the Société de developpement industrielle du Québec to provide assistance for Quebec companies threatened by the financial downturn of the early 1990s. Beauchamp described the program as an "extraordinary success" in June 1991, saying that it had overseen loans to 158 companies.〔Barrie McKenna, "Quebec companies on the dole," ''Globe and Mail'', 5 June 1991, p. 1.〕 Beauchamp began hosting the financial issues program "Capital Action" on the Réseau de l'information television network in 1995.〔"RDI to Broadcast Live from the Toronto Stock Exchange," ''Canada NewsWire'', 29 May 2001, p. 1; "Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec-Merrill Lynch Economic and Financial Journalism Awards of Excellence - Candidate submissions are open," ''Canada NewsWire'', 15 October 2009, 12:27.〕 He resigned from this position in 2004.〔("Claude Beauchamp, un pionnier du journalisme économique" ), ''Les Affaires et la vie'', Radio-Canada, accessed 4 September 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claude Beauchamp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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