2023-09-02 08:00:00
Laurent Joffrin slams the door. In support of the teams of the “Journal du dimanche”, decimated since the arrival at the head of the weekly of Geoffroy Lejeune, ex-director of “Valeurs Actuelles”, the ex-director of “Liberation” and the “Nouvel Observateur ” announced Friday, September 1 that he was ending his collaboration with the CNews channel. In solidarity, the journalist explained in a letter published on the site of his media launched last April, Le Journal, his decision not to appear on the sets of the continuous news channel owned by the Vivendi group, also the first shareholder of the Lagardère group.
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“It seems incoherent to me to continue working in a chain whose methods I have denounced”
“Throughout my professional life, I have defended and implemented the idea of journalistic and political autonomy for the newsrooms of which I was a member.he wrote. All the principles and all the practices that were swept aside unceremoniously in the case of the ‘Journal du Dimanche’, triggering the hostility of more than 90% of the editors of the weekly, who carried out the longest strike in its history, without achieving to be heard. Under these conditions, and for this precise reason, it seems to me incoherent to continue to work in a chain directed by the same owner, whose methods I have openly denounced, on several occasions in this letter, JDD'”.
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This summer, after the announcement of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the “Sunday Journal”, the teams of the “JDD” went on strike for 40 days to oppose the appointment of the former boss. of “Current Values”, with reputedly ultra-conservative opinions. The strikers notably protested against the risk of a radical change in the editorial line of their newspaper, reputed to be centre-right.
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