2023-06-26 18:44:10
“The JDD has never been a militant newspaper or an ideological tract, and it never will be,” says Arnaud Lagardère (here, February 14, in his Paris office). François BOUCHON/Le Figaro
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – On strike since Thursday, the editorial staff of the Sunday newspaper protests against the choice of its new director.
The Chairman and CEO of the Lagardère group, bought by Vivendi (owned by the Bolloré family), explains his choice.
LE FIGARO. – Why should Geoffroy Lejeune be recruited as the editorial director of the JDDreplacing Jérôme Béglé?
Arnaud LAGARDERE. – There was an opportunity to seize called Geoffroy Lejeune, a young journalist, talented and at ease with digital. Jérôme Béglé, for his part, has done a tremendous job in JDD and I offered him a new challenge as editor of Paris Matchfor which I had already seen it several times.
In the eyes of journalists, on strike since Thursday, the arrival of this former editor-in-chief of Current values poses the threat of an editorial change close to the extreme right. What do you think?
That’s incorrect, I’m not choosing Geoffroy with the aim of changing the editorial line, but obviously, The JDD must also know how to adapt to changes in the world as we have always done…
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