Pierre Nadeau OC CQ (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ nado]; 19 December 1936 – 3 September 2019) was a Canadian journalist, television presenter and producer.

He interned at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française where he was mentored by Léon Zitrone and Judith Jasmin, and later served as the Radio-Canada correspondent in Paris.

His father also gave regular radio commentaries on politics and economics, and the family home was frequented by his colleagues and celebrities of Radio-Canada.

[1] Nadeau completed classical studies at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, and graduated from the Université de Montréal with a political science degree.

[3] Nadeau moved to Paris in 1958, to take drama lessons and to complete an internship at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française.

He emulated the station's free exchange of information, which inspired him to establish a new style of current events program called Le monde now, when he returned to Montreal in 1968.

[4] Nadeau reported on current affairs for the Sunday evening show Weekend on CBC Toronto from 1970 to 1973, and covered the October Crisis in Quebec for an English-Canadian audience.

[2][3][4] Nadeau was personally shaken when reporting on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia, and his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day.

He produced several television series for Radio-Canada during this time, which included the monthly program L'observateur, and returned to hosting Le Point from 1984 to 1989.

[2] Nadeau served as the Quebec delegate to Boston from 1994 to 1995, returned to Radio-Canada to host the weekly magazine show Enjeux in 1996, then published his autobiography titled L'impatient in 2001.

[2][7] His funeral was held at Saint-Viateur d'Outremont Church on 17 September 2019,[11] followed by burial in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.