The president of the public audiovisual group has been in office since 2012.
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France Médias Monde reiterates its confidence to its president. Marie-Christine Saragosse has just been renewed Wednesday for a third term at the head of the public group in charge of the outside audiovisual of France, announced the Arch, the audiovisual regulator, Wednesday 11. >
Posting since 2012, the president, aged 62, was renewed for five years from April 23.
France Médias Monde brings together the news channel continues France 24 (in French, English, Arabic and Spanish), RFI radio (in French and fifteen other languages) and radio in Arabic Monte Carlo Doualiya ( MCD).
favor “experience”
“In a context marked by a deep transformation of the audiovisual sector, an evolution of the methods of financing public audiovisual [with the abolition of the fee] and major geopolitical upheavals, the authority has chosen to favor The experience acquired at the head of the group by M Me Marie-Christine Saragosse, “said Arch in a press release.
The outgoing was preferred to four other candidates: Sylvain Attal (ex-deputy director of France 24 in charge of new media), David Hivet (specialist in international media), Arnaud Ngatcha (journalist and assistant at the Paris Town Hall international relations) and Pierre-Etienne Pommier (digital entrepreneur).
His renewal follows three weeks that of the president of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, for a second term. That of the third patron of public audiovisual, Delphine Ernotte (France Télévisions), renewed in 2020, runs until 2025.