2023-07-29 08:34:00
The editorial staff of the “JDD” has decided to extend its strike for a sixth week. Direct consequence: there has been no newspaper for a month and a half.
By HR with AFP
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La editorial strike JDDto mark the opposition to the arrival of the former managing editor of Current values, Geoffroy Lejeune, at the head of the Sunday weekly, is entering its sixth week. The renewal was voted on this Saturday, July 29, therefore, the newspaper will not appear on July 30, once more for the sixth week in a row.
The renewal of the strike was voted on Saturday by 97% by the editorial staff (93 for, 3 once morest, 7 abstentions), a sign of very strong support from journalists for the movement despite the breakdown at the start of the week of negotiations with the Lagardère group. , owner of the weekly.
The editorial staff refused the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, “whose values are in total contradiction with those of the JDD », and asks to « offer journalists guarantees of legal and editorial independence ». She will decide once more on the continuation of the movement on Tuesday, the day of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune in the editorial staff. On Friday, more than twenty journalists from the weekly gathered near the Ministry of Culture, where a delegation was received by the cabinet of Rima Abdul Malak.
The independence of the editorial staff in question
The strikers called on the minister to support recent parliamentary initiatives aimed at protecting the independence of editorial staff, and to ensure that the “States General of Information” announced for September by the Élysée “is not an empty shell “. The publication of the newspaper on Sunday was already considered “impossible” by several strikers following the breakdown on Monday of the negotiations announced by Lagardère. The latter had confirmed the “effective” arrival on 1is August by Geoffroy Lejeune, from the far-right newspaper Current values.
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Many observers see in the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune the hand of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, whose Vivendi group must swallow Lagardère, owner of the JDDof Paris Match and Europe 1, following a successful takeover bid. Previous strikes once morest his supposed interference with iTélé (now CNews, owned by Vivendi) in 2016 and Europe 1 in 2021 ended in mass departures. The current movement is unprecedented in the history of the JDD : its previous strike, in 2016, had affected only one Sunday.
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