The editorial staff of France Television expresses no confidence in their information director

The national editorial staff of France Télévisions voted largely against their information director Laurent Guimier, we learned from the France 2 journalists’ society, which organized the vote. Dissatisfaction was voted by almost 83% of the votes cast to France 2 and by 93% of France 3’s national editorial staff at franceinfo.fr (web editorial staff).

Confidence in the editorial office of franceinfo:TV gathered 53 percent, but it is too small to compensate for the overall negative vote. Journalists were asked to answer the question “yes” or “no”. “Do you trust Laurent Guimier, France Television’s information director?”.

According to editorial sources, the latent conflict between the director of information and his troops crystallized recently over the issue of non-renewal of 5-term contracts, in an editorial office that already works with very tense flows. France Télévisions’ decision to rebroadcast reports rather than produce new topics has also been widely criticized internally.

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“But for some time now, the relationship between the editorial office and Mr. Guimier has been complicated.”, assessed the member of the Council of the Society of Journalists. Many journalists thus criticize Laurent Guimieux for his low evaluation of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, when the two candidates, each for their part, refused to come to the set of France 2 at key moments of the presidential campaign, and the other. candidates have completed the exercises.

Laurent Guimier is a journalist who spent most of his career at Europe 1, but also managed France Info radio from 2014 to 2017. After heading the radio division of the Lagarde Group in 2018-2019, he joined France Televisions. director of franceinfo (the website and app that brings together public service radio and digital television offerings) before becoming director of information in September 2020.