The showdown is over JDD. After a historic strike of forty days and departures that promise to be massive, the newspaper version Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist marked on the far right, was published overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
This surprise first edition, because until then announced for mid-August, was available shortly after midnight on the newspaper’s platform. “You were waiting for it, here it is” published on X (ex-Twitter) the weekly, referring to its front page. The last edition dated back to June 22.
A lighter number
This is a 32-page issue (20 less than the last edition), the front page of which is devoted to insecurity and justice after the death of a 15-year-old teenager on July 22 in the ‘Eure. The new Secretary of State for the City, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, is the first member of the government to grant an interview to the JDD Lejeune version.
This issue was produced mainly by outside journalists, with few members of the outgoing editorial staff involved, as for the website whose activity had already resumed this week, supplied by the 6Médias press agency. It includes the signatures of Charlotte d’Ornellas and Raphaël Stainville (former Current Valueslike Geoffroy Lejeune), Pascal Praud, journalist for Europe 1 and CNews, Jacques Vendroux, for sport, or even Eric Naulleau (ex-debating companion of Eric Zemmour, whom Lejeune supported in the presidential election).
The situation at JDD revived the debate on the concentration of the media in the hands of a few large private groups and the legislation governing their operation. Conditioning of aid to the press, strengthening of the power of editorial staff vis-à-vis shareholders: several avenues have been mentioned but none has so far achieved consensus.
There is “every reason to worry”, according to Rima Abdul Malak
In an interview at West France Saturday, the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak believes that “there is every reason to worry in view of what had happened in Current Values who, it should be remembered, was sentenced for incitement to racial hatred”. While recalling that “the opinion press has the right to exist in France, this is part of the pluralism of the press, so we can neither constrain the freedom of the press, nor constrain the freedom of enterprise”. The subject will be on the menu in September of the States General of Information announced by the Elysée.