2023-06-30 10:35:00
Friday, the strike was voted by 96% of the members of the newspaper. According to veterans of the title, this is the longest strike in the history of the “JDD”.
By BL with AFP This is the longest strike in the history of the JDD, according to alumni of the newspaper. © MARTIN LELIEVRE / AFP Published on 06/30/2023 at 12:35 p.m.
The movement is entering its second week in Sunday newspaper. The continuation of the strike was voted almost unanimously against the arrival, at its head, of the far-right journalist Geoffroy Lejeune. In total, 96% of voters expressed themselves in favor of the continuation of the strike (89 for, 4 against, 3 who did not decide), details Friday, June 30 the society of journalists (SDJ) in a press release, specifying that a new vote will be held Saturday morning on the renewal or not of the movement.
Consequence of the continuation of the movement: The Sunday newspaper, which had not appeared the previous week, will again be absent from newsstands on Sunday, a member of the SDJ told Agence France-Presse. This is the second strike resulting in the non-publication of the newspaper, after that of 2016, and the longest movement known to the editorial staff, according to former members of the newspaper.
The drafting of JDD asks the management of Lagardère News, owner of the weekly, to “renounce the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune” and to “offer the editorial staff guarantees of legal and editorial independence”. These two demands do not seem close to succeeding: the management of the newspaper announced the arrival on Wednesday of Geoffroy Lejeune at the editorial office to present his “editorial project”, learned AFP from an internal source at the JDD.
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Many observers see in the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the newspaper, closely followed by political and economic circles, the hand of the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, with opinions reputed to be ultra-conservative. The latter leads the Vivendi group, a media behemoth in France, which notably includes the Canal+ group and its channels C8 and CNews, as well as Prisma Media, the leading magazine press group, and the publishing group Editis.
D’Ornellas also expected at the JDD
The appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune came just after the green light given, subject to conditions, by the European Commission to Vivendi to absorb Lagardère, a group to which it also belongs. Paris Match, Europe 1 and the publishing leader, Hachette. “I made this decision alone. Neither Vincent Bolloré nor anyone from Vivendi were involved,” Arnaud Lagardère, leader of the group of the same name, denied in the newspaper on Tuesday. Le Figaro.
According to press reports, journalist Charlotte d’Ornellas, also marked on the extreme right and who came from Current valuesshould join Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the JDD.
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Since these announcements, several calls for support from the editorial staff of the JDD were organized, including a rally, under the aegis of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which brought together nearly a thousand people on Tuesday. A strike fund was opened to support the movement financially. More than 11,500 euros had been collected Thursday evening, according to the Twitter account of the SDJ of JDD. A petition has also been launched on the change.org website. Friday morning, it had more than 32,000 signatures.
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