Jean-Claude Raspiengeas is a leading culture reporter for the newspaper La Croix and a columnist for Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter radio. He has written several books, including Bertrand Tavernier (2001, Flammarion), Routiers (2020, L'Iconoclaste) and Une vie sur l'eau - Le monde des bateliers (2022, L'Iconoclaste), as well as the documentaries Privés de télé (1986) and Paroles d'otages (Fipa d'or, 1989), which he co-directed with Patrick Volson. Jean-Claude Raspiengeas co-authored Ces Années-là, a book published on the occasion of the 70th Festival de Cannes (2017, Stock).