After bringing together the international, sports and investigation services, within cross-functional editorial teams for France Inter, Franceinfo and France Culture, will the management of the public radio group take a new step towards greater pooling? The announcement, during the social and economic committee (CSE) held on Tuesday February 27, of a future grouping of the science, health and environment services of the three branches provoked an outcry at France Inter.
Wednesday February 28 in the morning, the information director of Radio France and Franceinfo, Jean-Philippe Baille tried, without success, to put out the fire by contacting the editorial staff. “He got shaken”say several people who attended the meeting, speaking “of a united collective and in total opposition” to the project desired by management.
Several line managers – Marc Fauvelle and Rémi Sulmont, respectively director of information and editorial director of the channel – have also expressed their disapproval. The two faces of the morning show, Léa Salamé and Nicolas Demorand, also appeared very upset. “You choose to weaken France Inter”said Ms. Salamé to Mr. Baille, who replied: “We are strengthening Radio France. » Contacted, the latter did not wish to speak. “Two months ago, he still told us that there was no news on this subject “at this stage””says a journalist.
“Risk of standardization of information”
After discovering the project after reading the documents sent to them on Friday February 23, the union representatives notified the France Inter editorial staff. A motion was voted on by a show of hands during a general meeting held Tuesday February 27 before being read in the preamble to the CSE the same day. This project, which concerns fifteen journalists, “ can only be seen as a new stage in the dismantling of the France Inter editorial staff, which we firmly reject”denounces the text of the Society of Journalists of the station.
“This carries the risk of standardization of information at Radio France”, underlines Célia Quilleret, deputy head of the environmental health sciences department at France Inter and union representative of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ). According to her, “the merger of these services would erase the editorial lines and remove the differentiation between the channels”. “This project is as inept in substance as it is disastrous in form”, adds Raphaël Ebenstein, also a member of the SNJ and journalist at France Info. The management of Radio France responds that the “ information consultation procedure has only just begun and transversal writing is not synonymous with uniformity”.
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