The journalist, hitherto director of editorial staff of BFM-TV, succeeds Jean-Emmanuel Casalta, who has run France Bleu since September 2018.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
“You need a new impulse for France Bleu.” In A press release published Monday February 6 by Radio France, the CEO of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, said that journalist Céline Pigalle , so far director of editorial staff of BFM-TV, will take the lead, on April 3, of the network of local public radio France Bleu, whose audiences have plunged.
Céline Pigalle, who spent thirteen years at Europe 1 before joining Canal+, succeeds Jean-Emmanuel Casalta, who has run France Bleu since September 2018. “I decided to entrust it to a great media professional. Céline Pigalle knows the radio and has directed major editors, “said the CEO of Radio France in an internal letter to the employees cited in the press release.
The audiences of France Bleu, at half mast, plunged between November and December, bringing the union of SNJ-Radio France journalists to challenge the president of the public group to stop “this infernal fall”. “These poor audience results weaken not only the network, but the set of Radio France, when the financing and independence of public radio are at stake,” alerted the union.
A few months earlier, in September 2022, a motion of distrust had been adopted against the Information Department of France Bleu. Two journalists (SNJ and SNJ-CGT) unions) then denounced an editorial strategy deemed imposed in Paris without taking into account local specificities. They also pointed out “the brutality of management” of the information department.
Evinced in September 2015 of Canal+
Céline Pigalle began her career at Europe 1 as a reporter and then correspondent in Berlin (2000-2004) and Brussels (2005-2007). In 2008, she became editor-in-chief of the station then, the following year, deputy editorial director.
In 2011, the journalist joined the Canal+ group as editor -in -chief of the program “La Matinale”. In May 2012, she became director of the editorial channel of the ITélé continuous news channel (now CNEWS), then information director of the Canal+ group in January 2014.
Evinced in September 2015 by Vincent Bolloré during her takeover of the Canal+group, Céline Pigalle takes over the editorial channel of the LCI Information Channel (TF1 group) in February 2016. Position that she left three months Later before joining BFM-TV, the first news channel in France, in December 2016 as editorial director.