For the first time since 2016, there should be no Sunday newspaper this weekend in newsstands. Friday, June 23, again meeting in general assembly for the second consecutive day, the journalists of the Sunday weekly renewed their strike for twenty-four hours, until Saturday 5:30 p.m., almost unanimously. 81 employees supported the strike, three voted against, and three people did not wish to comment.
The title’s website and social networks will therefore remain frozen until at least Saturday evening and the release of the paper edition of 3,989.e number will be prevented. “It is technically impossible to complete the edition on Saturday evening”believes a journalist, adding that the hypothesis of a seventy-two hour strike has been rejected “to leave an open door to dialogue with management”.
Following the announcement by The world of the imminent arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune (ex-director of Current values) at the head of JDD, the drafting was still rung on Friday, and the word of “stunned” still widely used by several feathers. The meeting held in the morning irritated more than reassured internally. “The tension has gone up a notch again, everyone is on edge”explains an editor lamenting “total blur” current management. Several journalists mention “a stormy meeting”speaking “of a dialogue of the deaf” between the general management of the title and its employees.
“Neither confirmed nor denied”
The managing editor Jérôme Béglé and the managing director of Lagardère News, Pierre-Emmanuel Ferrand, were bombarded with questions from journalists worried about the imminent arrival of the 34-year-old man, a close friend of Marion Maréchal and Eric Zemmour, freshly fired from the far-right weekly because of a line deemed too radical. If Mr. Béglé criticized “inaccuracy” of our information, without specifying which, however, he did not refute the arrival of Mr. Lejeune. “Neither confirmed nor denied”he just said.
“Not to deny, it is to validate his arrival”blows a journalist worried about what she considers to be a decision by the hand of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, while the European Commission authorized, subject to conditions, on June 9, the takeover bid for Vivendi, a company owned by the Bolloré family, on the Lagardère group.
Also, according to several journalists present at this same meeting, Mr. Béglé was seen as “contemptuous”accusing the strikers of a “irresponsible act”of “taking the newspaper hostage”And “to saw off the branch” on which they are seated. The managing director of editorial staff also announced that Arnaud Lagardère would come to the editorial staff on Tuesday June 27. “Why is he waiting so long? Is he coming to formalize the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune or to pull our ears because of the strike? »ask several journalists.
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