Baste was born on 11 October 1982 in the town of Schœlcher in Martinique. She is the daughter of the father who is a police inspector and her mother is a nurse.[1] Baste is the youngest of five sisters and all of them share a close relationship; she and her siblings were instilled the value of work by her parents and was raised on land owned by her family.[2] She was educated at Saint-Joseph de Cluny and then at Lycée Acajou in Le Lamentin, where she obtained her Baccalauréat.[3] Upon leaving school,[2] she became a graduate of the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes in 2003;[4][5] Baste had spent the previous three years studying at the school.[5]
She began her career in broadcasting, working as an image producer while interning at Société de Radiodiffusion et de télévision Française pour l'Outre-mer (RFO). Following the completion of her internship, Baste moved to France and became a freelancer for Cannes TV.[2][5] After two years, she moved to Guadeloupe,[3] becoming the editor of subjects relating to Saint Barthélemy and Saint-Martin at RFO. In 2007, Baste had her first appearance on television, presenting the local news programme Magazine Caraïbe.[2][5] She had made the appearance on short notice.[6] Baste made the decision to return to Martinique in July 2009,[3] and became the chair of debates and sports programmes on the Martinique 1re [fr] channel starting from 2011.[4][5] In mid-2015, she presented the weekend news bulletin Soir 3 Weekend broadcast on Friday to Sunday on France 3 in place of Francis Letellier.[1]
In 2016, Baste was chosen to read the overseas news from 6:00 in the morning on the 24 hour television news channel France Info from 1 September of that year.[7][8] She got the job after an encounter with the channel's director Stéphane Dubun in Paris,[5] and successfully applied for the position via telephone in July 2016.[9] That year, she also hosted a programme on the Zika virus at the France Télévisions headquarters in Paris.[9] Baste spent the next three television seasons at France Info before moving to join the breakfast television programme Télématin alongside Laurent Bignolas [fr] in 2019 as well as reading the news as a relief presenter on 13 heures at 1:00 in the afternoon on France 2.[5][4] She has also worked as a contributor to the monthly debate magazine Résonance, presented the programme Caraïbe on an alternate basis with Sonia Laventure, contributed to the programme Caméra direct,[1][3] and was on the Ça fait l'actu programme on France Info.[2]
In September 2020, Baste was reassigned to be the relief presenter of the news programme Journal de 20 heures for Anne-Sophie Lapix in place of Julian Bugier who moved to 13 heures during weekdays from January 2021.[5][4] She ended up replacing Lapix for a period of time during the following month.[10][11] Baste made her final appearance on Télématin on 7 April 2021,[12] so that she could focus on being the relief presenter of Journal de 20 heures full-time before the 2021/22 season.[13] She is on the board of France Télévisions's directors as a director representing employees.[14]
Personal life
She has the sobriquet KBR.[11] Baste has been married to the journalist Patrick Régis and they have one child. She does not discuss her private life with the media.[15] She changed her name from Baste-Régis to Baste in late 2021.[13]
References
^ abc"Karine Baste-Régis" (in French). Martiniqueannu.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
