Three months of presidential election, change of captain at head of “Sunday Journal”

The “JDD”, soon owned by Vincent Bolloré, will be driven by Jérôme Beglé, deputy director of the “point” and regular columnist on the CNEWS chain.

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A little tour and then goes away. Not even three months after his arrival in October 2021, Jérôme Bellay, current director general of writing, will leave the Journal du Sunday (JDD). On January 24, it will be replaced by Jérôme Beglé, current deputy director of the writing of the point. This appointment promises to revive speculations on Vincent Bolloré on Lagardère, owner of the title, and on its three-month political velléities of the presidential election.

For eighteen months, Jérôme Beglé has indeed been a regular CNEWS columnist, the Conservative Information Chain of Vivendi, which counts the Industrial Breton as the first shareholder. The journalist stamped on the right officie three times a week in the “hour of the pros”, the successful emission animated by Pascal Praud. He also holds an editor in the morning.

“It’s clear that Vincent Bolloré by hand on the JDD. But he already had it when he has licensed Gattegno. He has reworked Europe 1 [also property of Lagardère] at his hand. What prevents him from doing the same at JDD? “, wonders a reporter of writing.

“Jérôme Beglé and Arnaud Lagardère were regularly seen in recent weeks”, moderates a friend of the new delegated director of the writing, ensuring that the heir of Jean-Luc Lagardère is still at the orders of his group.

One thing is safe, Vivendi played an important role in the redesign of the new grid of Europe 1, which started in September 2021 and which counts among its heads of several CNEWS figures, like Laurence Ferrari, Dimitri Pavlenko or Sonia Mabrouk. The appointment of Jérôme Beglé also intervenes that Vivendi has advanced the finalization of its takeover bid (OPA) on Lagardère to February, while it was initially scheduled for December 2022.

“Great weariness. “Internally

This brutal captain change to three months of the presidential election has disarmed internally. “When Jérôme Bellay has been named, we had at least the impression of being assured that there would be no great upheaval before this deadline,” said a journalist.

Journal only on Sunday, the JDD, despite a modest broadcast (147,000 copies in November 2021, according to the Alliance for the figures of the press and the media, the CMPA), remains an instrument of influence substantially : The government is running in its columns on weekends, and Emmanuel Macron is concerned from the Thursday of the summary to appear.

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