Laura-Julie Perreault

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Laura-Julie Perreault worked for the daily newspaper Le Soleil, CNN's Moscow bureau, and Gemini News Service's London office before joining La Presse in 2002. She has been an international affairs columnist since September 2021. 

Previously, she served as an editorial writer and covered international politics for 12 years, filing major reports from more than 40 countries. Her foreign reporting has earned her several awards, including from Canada's National Newspaper Awards. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She cofounded the Québec International Journalism Fund and cohosts the podcast Sans escale. For seven years, she taught international journalism at the Université de Montréal.