Claude Beauchamp, journalist
Claude Beauchamp ‑ a journalist, publisher, and political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec ‑ died on April 12, 2020 days after contracting COVID-19 and years after developing a chronic illness.
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. Corporate...