Fired in August 2022 from Paris Match, journalist Bruno Jeudy will interview a political or economic personality for the La Tribune site every Thursday, thus signing his “return to the written press”, the economic media announced on Thursday.
These “Jeudy talks” will be inaugurated on May 11 by the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, followed by the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (LR), the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance ), and the president of the strategic committee of the E. Leclerc centres, Michel-Edouard Leclerc. “A multimedia journalist for several years, I wanted to deepen this art of interview by returning to writing,” explained the editorialist of BFMTV, quoted in a press release.
Former political and economic editor of Paris Match, Bruno Jeudy was removed from it during the summer of 2022, amid disagreements with the management of the Lagardère group’s weekly, in the process of being swallowed up by Vivendi, the group of Vincent Bolloré, with reputedly conservative opinions. His dismissal had been denounced by the Society of Journalists of Paris Match and led to the vote of a motion of censure against the management.
According to the SDJ, Bruno Jeudy had repeatedly “criticized” the “interference” of the management in the editorial choices of the magazine, including a first page devoted, against the opinion of the editorial staff, to one of the figureheads Catholic conservatives, Cardinal Sarah. He was replaced in September by Laurence Ferrari, one of the headliners of CNews (from the Canal group, itself a subsidiary of Vivendi).
His decision to join La Tribune “reflects the desire for excellence and ambition” of the title which “will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2025”, assures its deputy editorial director, Fabrice Gliszczynski. La Tribune claims 3 million unique monthly visitors to its site and has been available as a monthly magazine on newsstands since 2020.
Created in 1985, La Tribune had stopped its daily paper edition in 2012, after its takeover by Jean-Christophe Tortora. The newspaper is now 72% owned by the Hima group, itself 20% owned by Jean-Christophe Tortora and 80% by Franck Julien, boss of the business services giant Atalian. The rest belongs to entrepreneur Laurent Alexandre (founder of Doctissimo).