Jean-Claude Guillebaud (21 May 1944 – 8 November 2025) was a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.

A journalist at the daily Sud Ouest, then at the newspaper Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He was a member of the sponsorship committee of the Coordination française pour la Décennie [fr] of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published La force de conviction [fr]. He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of Le Nouvel Observateur before replacing Jacques Julliard as columnist at Le Nouvel Observateur from November 2010. He also kept a chronicle of observation of French society and politics in the Catholic weekly La Vie. Since June 2008, he was a member of the supervisory board of the press group Bayard Presse.^{[citation needed]} In 2016, he presided the 23rd Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre.^{[citation needed]}

Guillebaud died in Angoulême on 8 November 2025, at the age of 81.