The former editorial director of the “Parisian”, aged 61, should soon take over from the thirties, close to Marion Maréchal, at the head of the far -right weekly.
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Geoffroy Lejeune lives his last hours at the head of the editorial management of the weekly weekly current values? The article of the specialized press site The letter a , Thursday October 20, announcing its next replacement by Jean-Michel Salvator , sowed doubt internally, a journalist from his team admitting to being “confused” by the situation. “No decision is made,” says Francis Morel, administrator of the holding company who holds Valmonde, the group owner of the weekly.
He recognizes, however, “discussions between the shareholder and Geoffroy Lejeune, as it often happens”. According to our information, the arrival of Jean-Michel Salvator, 61, should not be long. After two years at the head of the Parisian, Mr. Salvator had left his post as editorial director in early September, for the benefit of Nicolas Charbonneau. His editorial positions had been disputed several times by the company of daily journalists, reluctant to see the newspaper adopt partisan positions.
outrancière editorial line
Ancient of Figaro, where he worked alongside Nicolas Beytout, Etienne Mougeotte and Alexis Brézet, themselves representatives of different currents who travel the right, Jean-Michel Salvator would be responsible for making current values a weekly “Assumed right, but not far right,” says a close friend of the file. An editorial line more moderate than that printed by Geoffroy Lejeune, thirty -something assuming as “react”, daily invited on the CNews channel, under the control of Vincent Bolloré.
Although he says to himself “in the service of anyone”, Mr. Lejeune put Eric Zemmour, that he does not hide from admiring and to whom he devoted a book in 2015 (an ordinary election, Ring ), in “a” magazine seven times during the presidential campaign. A risky choice: not only 26 % of the readers interviewed in April by the Ifop Survey Institute said they were ready to vote for Emmanuel Macron – against 25 % for Marine Le Pen and 24 % for Eric Zemmour -, but sales n ‘was not better. On the contrary, they accused a sensitive decrease .
The outrageous editorial line gave the weekly media visibility much higher than its real sales allowed him to hope. As for the advertising returns, they were reduced to the skin of sorrow on digital since the collective Sleeping Giants had undertaken to publicly challenge the brands which financed the newspaper by allowing their pubs to appear on its site, so that they ‘withdraw. The printed version of the weekly does not count any more.
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