Accused of imposing a management qualified by some of “brutal”, the director of the station, Sandrine Treiner, appears weakened.
by Aude Dassonville
Mid-January, on the occasion of the latest radio audience results, journalists were able to exchange with Sandrine Treiner, the director of France Culture, delighted to comment on the success of her station. Internally, however, “we no longer see her much”, assure the collaborators with whom Mo12345lemonde exchanged. Since the fall of 2022 and the implementation of a listening system for employees, the manager has been discreet. No more noisy debriefing of the morning around her in the open space. Completed the meetings where, some people tell, people feared to attract a salted reflection.
By the end of the month, at the latest at the beginning of February, the expertise Alcens, mandated by the management of Radio France, should submit its report. Sibyle Veil, the president, will then take a few days before deciding on the follow -up to her. Should Sandrine Treiner be sanctioned? Will she be offered another function? “Everyone is watching” what will happen, sums up a journalist.
The station has been on ardent coals since September 20 and the publication in the Liberation of an article-” A France Culture, a “Violence System and Submission “Coming from above” – which described a management qualified as “brutal”, “vertical”, “autocratic”, even “nasty” by several of our interlocutors.
burn -ut and departures
Sandrine Treiner support read a settlement of accounts based on anonymous testimonies, therefore questionable subjects. With the exception of these few relatives, all those we contacted, however, required the same discretion. “We, the producers [the presenters of the program], are dependent because of the prince”, justifies one of them.
Same caution among directors, documentaries or fictions, freelancers and intermittents to which the station appeals – each has the example of a “blacklist” colleague, or “placarded”, to quote. “For Sandrine, if we are not with her, it is that we are against her,” sums up an old man from the house. Burn-out situations have been identified (at administrative positions), and departures (a communication director, an HR official) took place. The manager did not wish to answer questions from the world.
From the start of the 2016 school year, a press release from the UNSA Union of Radio France titled “France Culture, sick of its management” and reported “intimidation” and “contempt”, and called for “a peaceful relationship with the All of France Culture staff and writing “. At the time, Sandrine Treiner directed the station, which she had recovered at 1.8 point from cumulative audience for just a year. In November-December 2022, France Culture hid 3.1 points, one of its absolute records. “We have complained about the way we have been treated for years, insists a witness. The management of Radio France did everything to not see it, because the audiences were good.”
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