Journalist Bruno Jeudy leaves “Paris Match”, one month after a “controversial”

The editorial staff received an email from the management mentioning a “mutual agreement” decision. At the beginning of July, the editorial staff of the magazine, of which Bruno Jeudy, had castigated the choice of management to devote his “one” to an ultra -conservative cardinal.

Le Monde with AFP

Journalist Bruno Jeudy, political and economic editor of the weekly Paris Match, leaves his duties, according to information from the site confirmed to the France-Presse agency.

According to the days, the editorial staff of the weekly owned by the Lagardère group, itself controlled by the Vivendi group by Vincent Bolloré, received an email announcing the departure of Bruno Jeudy on Thursday. “By mutual agreement, it has indeed been decided to put an end to our collaboration,” stipulates the email signed by Patrick Mahé and Caroline Manger, respectively Director General and Director of the editorial staff of Paris Match.

“A controversial” a month ago

The days specifies that the Society of Journalists (SDJ) summoned a general meeting for Friday.

At the beginning of July, the editorial staff of the weekly had castigated the choice of management to devote the “one” of the weekly to the ultra -conservative Cardinal Robert Sarah. The SDJ was indignant at this choice, described as “interference” of the Lagardère group, in the orbit since last year of the Vivendi group, itself controlled by the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

The editorial staff of the magazine – of which Bruno Jeudy – had attempted the day of the closure “to convince the management of the Lagardère group to return to his choice of” a “. Unfortunately without success”, had declared the SDJ.

Bruno Jeudy has held this position since 2014. Also a columnist on BFM-TV, he was notably a political journalist at the Parisian, in Le Figaro, in the Journal du Dimanche. Specialist in the French right, he is the author or co -author of several books on Nicolas Sarkozy, whose blow mounted, relating to the fratricidal struggles which preceded the presidential election of 2017 at the UMP and the defeat of François Fillon.

/Media reports.