Jacques Pilet was born on October 18, 1943, in La Tour-de-Peilz, canton of Vaud, Switzerland is a journalist and creator of Swiss newspapers.

1974-1981: Journalist at Télévision Suisse Romande, mainly for the program Temps present, then producer of the Swiss news magazine Tell What.

A connoisseur of Latin America, he travels there frequently and publishes numerous reports on Colombia, Brazil, Peru in particular.

In 1991, he designed and produced (with CAB Productions in Lausanne) a show (The epic of Europe), presented in the tent of Mario Botta in Sils Maria as part of the European day of the 700th anniversary of the Confederation.

Following the disappearance of LHebdo in 2017, Jacques Pilet participated in the creation of the new online French-speaking newspaper Bon pour la tête whose 1st issue came out on June 21, 2017.