What will writing look like? Paris Match in three weeks ? Since the evening of Wednesday 22 February, the journalists of the weekly, like their colleagues from the Sunday newspaperanother title of the Lagardère group, have been teleworked, while work is being carried out in their common building – CNews, the main news channel of Vincent Bolloré’s group, whispers in the corridors, could soon join there. “We wonder who will come back and who we will never see again”says a journalist who, like many, requests anonymity.
It must be said that lately, Match, whether chosen or negotiated, departures follow one another at an unprecedented pace. After the journalists Sophie des Déserts, Aurélie Raya and Emilie Lanez, the “rewriter” Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, the artistic director, Cyril Clément, the head of photography, Guillaume Clavières, or even the general secretary of the editorial staff, Alain Dorange, it is the editor-in-chief of the “Vivre Match” pages, Elisabeth Lazaroo, who left for good this week. And this, after the France info website revealed that the reporter Emilie Blachère had filed a request to the industrial tribunal in order to assert her conscience clause. This system allows a journalist to leave his job with compensation in the event of the sale of his newspaper or a change in his editorial line.
“My voice did not count at all”
However, a year ago, the Vivendi group of Vincent Bolloré launched a takeover bid on the Lagardère group. If he holds 57% of the capital, he is not supposed to control it until Brussels has given its approval. However, and as she explained at length to the site Days, ” Paris Match is losing the political neutrality that characterized it. Continuing to work there was likely to damage my work and my reputation”she defends.
On March 31, it will be the turn of the author of the chronicle “L’air du temps”, Gilles Martin-Chauffier, 68, including 43 from home, to step aside
The names that appear in the bear, this kind of identity card that appears in all the newspapers, are constantly changing. Too fast sometimes. That of the Vatican specialist, Caroline Pigozzi, a real character in a newspaper for which she has been writing for thirty years, disappeared from the February 9 issue. Now in her seventies, she is however supposed to leave him only on Tuesday, February 28.
On March 31, it will be the turn of Gilles Martin-Chauffier, author of the column “L’air du temps”, to step aside. At 68, including 43 from home, he too is a pillar. “If the motion of no confidence in the summer [2022] was signed by 93% of votersblows a feather, it is partly because he had spoken” to castigate the conditions of the departure of Bruno Jeudy, the head of the political department, now replaced by Laurence Ferrari, presenter on CNews and Europe 1 – the journalist had assumed to challenge the “one” dedicated to Cardinal Robert Sarah, ultraconservative and homophobic . “My voice didn’t count at all, and I’m leaving of my own free will”however, refutes the editor-in-chief of “editing”, who hopes to continue his collaboration with a few freelancers.
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