2023-06-25 06:42:02
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 20:27, Updated 42 minutes ago
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The staff of the JDD voted almost unanimously to continue the strike movement, which has put the weekly on hold since Thursday and will prevent it from appearing on Sunday.
The drafting of Sunday newspaper (JDD) on Saturday asked the management of the weekly, controlled by Vincent Bolloré, to give up appointing Geoffroy Lejeune as its head and extended his strike until Wednesday, according to a press release.
The staff of JDD once more voted almost unanimously to continue the strike movement, which has put the newspaper on hold since Thursday and will prevent it from appearing on Sunday.
In question, the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, just landed from the far-right weekly Current values, as managing editor. Official since Friday evening, this arrival is a “Red linefor the editorial staff, wrote the Society of Journalists (SDJ) of JDD in a press release.
«The editorial staff of the JDD refuses to be directed by a man whose ideas are in total contradiction with the values of the newspaper“, she added, following a vote of 98% in favor of the renewal of the strike (80 votes “pour“, two “ once morest“, three “is not pronounced»). «The teams also demand recognition of the legal independence of the editorial staff and guarantees as to the exercise of their profession in compliance with ethical rules.“, she continued.
Mediapart plans to publish an op-ed
The drafting of JDD fears to see repeating a method already denounced elsewhere in the media controlled by Vincent Bolloré: waltz of the leaders and interventions on the editorial line, fear that it will switch to the far right, at the cost of a possible haemorrhage of journalists.
Au JDDGeoffroy Lejeune succeeds Jérôme Béglé, himself appointed managing editor of Paris Matchanother title of the Lagardère group, whose absorption by Vivendi, the group of the ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, has just been authorized by Brussels.
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The announcement of Geoffroy Lejeune’s appointment sparked many reactions and, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Mediapart planned to publish a column, signed by some thirty companies of journalists and editors of major media, asking the owners of the JDD to give up the “forced passageto impose this decision.
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