Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (29 September 1937 – 3 October 2023) was a French journalist.

Elkabbach was born to an Algerian Jewish family in Oran on 29 September 1937,[1] then the prefecture of the département d'Oran in French Algeria.

He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in Algiers, but having taken part in the strikes of May 1968, he was sidelined and sent to Toulouse.

Elkabbach would later spend time in Bonn, Germany, before venturing into television news in 1970.

[1] Elkabbach presented Bibliothèque Médicis on Public Sénat, during which he interviewed an eclectic mix of international literati, political leaders, intellectuals, and historians.