The manager seeks a third term at the head of the public media of international information media (France 24, RFI, Montecarlo Doualiya), crossed by various tensions.
by Aude Dassonville
Marie-Christine Saragosse will she spend the next five years at the head of France Médias Monde? At 62, the leader since 2012 of the public group which brings together the continuous international news channel (in four languages) France 24, Radio France Internationale RFI (Sixteen Languages) and the Arabic-speaking Radio Monte-Carlo Doualiya will open the ball of the contender At the post Monday, during an audition at Arcom (ex-CSA).
will follow the former executive of the French Development Agency CFI, David Hivet, and the director of special operations at France Télévisions and assistant to La Francophonie at the town hall of Paris, Arnaud Gatcha, then, the next day, ‘Entrepreneur and ex-advisor on digital tools for the La République en Marche group at the National Assembly, Pierre-Etienne Pommier, and the former deputy director of the editorial staff of France 24, Sylvain Attal.
It is a tormented company that it will be a question of directing, for the person that the Arch will choose to appoint on January 23 at the latest. The crisis of November 2021 at France 24, which had given rise to a scathing motion of distrust of five members of the management and a six -day strike, does not yet seem completely exceeded. The schedules always suffer from a chronic lack of staff, while the question of the status of correspondents abroad, considered as providers and paid by subcontracting companies, remains posed.
” Lack of courage “
“Internally, there are those who hope for the renewal of Marie-Christine Saragosse for fear of what could happen in the event of a change, and those who fear that we continue with the same team”, explains in a way Anonymous a journalist, who describes “a gigantic internal discomfort”. RFI is no exception to a certain dismay. Here too, a motion of distrust was voted in February 2022, the drafting denying its management its ability to “apply and enforce the ethical principles that govern any media”. Homemade ethical texts, common to those of France 24, had been updated.
However, they do not prevent the shortcomings. Thus, on December 14, a journalist from Morocco appeared on the Arabic -speaking antenna of France 24 dressed in a jersey of the kingdom team and in the absence, unprecedented, of the inlay on the screen of the map of the country from which she intervened. Established by the UN, it does not include Western Sahara, a territory that Moroccan power claims. Questioned by MO12345lemonde on this absence, the chain invokes a “precaution of circumstance”, and “security reasons” with regard to the journalist.
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