The anger went up a notch the day after the formalization of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the editorial staff of the Sunday newspaper (JDD). Saturday June 24, meeting in general assembly for the third day in a row, the journalists of the Sunday weekly almost unanimously – 98% – renewed their strike for four days, until Wednesday June 28 at 9:30 a.m., against the forthcoming arrival of the former director of the far-right newspaper Current values.
Eighty employees supported the social movement, two voted against, and three people did not wish to comment. As since the announcement of the strike Thursday June 22, the website will not be updated until Wednesday morning and the paper edition of 3,989e number will not be on newsstands Sunday, June 25, just like the JDD Magazine. A first since 2016.
Among the subjects discussed during the general meeting on Saturday afternoon, several members of the editorial staff expressed their shock at having discovered Lagardère’s press release in the press and on social networks on Friday evening, without having been warned beforehand. internally. “And this despite the categorical rejection of the editorial staff, which expressed itself twice during a vote and went on strike since Thursday, June 22”, recalls the press release from the Society of Journalists (LDS) of the title, speaking of” a Cape (…) crossed in the refusal of dialogue”.
Meeting Tuesday with Mr. Lagardère
“This way of doing things is terrible, it’s worse than contempt, it’s an incredible lack of consideration”reacts a journalist wishing to remain anonymous, when other members of the editorial staff consider that it is a strategy thought up by the management.
Also according to the SDJ press release, the editorial staff asks the management to “to give up the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, which constitutes a red line” and said refuse to be led by a man whose ideas are in total contradiction with the values of the newspaper”.
Finally, the teams of JDD also require the recognition of the legal independence of the editorial staff and the guarantees as to the exercise of their profession in compliance with the rules of ethics”. Many of them see the mark of billionaire Vincent Bolloré in the choice of Geoffroy Lejeune, 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.
After having considered for a time coming accompanied by Geoffroy Lejeune from Tuesday June 27, CEO Arnaud Lagardère would have finally given up on this possibility. Mr. Lagardère will come to meet the teams of the JDD Tuesday at 11 a.m., with Constance Benqué, president of Lagardère News.
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