(FILES) French journalist and TV host of French TV channel TF1's program "Les coulisses de l'économie" Jean-Marc Sylvestre reacts during a press conference at the Pavillon Dauphine in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris on August 29, 2001. French journalist Jean-Marc Sylvestre, a self-described liberal who was for many years the face of business news on French TV news channel TF1, has died aged 79 "following a long illness", the Atlantico website for which he wrote announced on July 21, 2026. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP via Getty Images)