Journalist Jean-François Fogel, who wrote books on the digital turn of the press and contributed to the development of the LeMonde.fr site from 2000, died on Sunday March 19 at the age of 76, his wife said. Mr. Fogel, who succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage, made his debut at Agence France-Presse and worked for numerous publications, including Release et Point.
Advisor to the newspaper’s management The world in the 90s and until 2002, he took part in the relaunch of the daily newspaper with the creation of a new formula in 1994. He then participated in the definition and implementation of the strategy and editorial design of the digital subsidiary of Mondeby launching a new version of the Le Monde.fr website.
Author of several books
With Bruno Patino, currently president of Arte, he co-wrote two books on the consequences of the Internet for the press: “The press without Gutenberg” in 2005 and “The Digital Condition” in 2013. They both created the site francetvinfo.fr, which became franceinfo.fr. He has published other works, including “Morand Express” (1980), “End of the century in Havana” (1993), or even « The Testament of Pablo Escobar » (1994).
He was also one of the leaders of the Foundation for a New Journalism in Latin America, created by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He was also a professor at the School of Journalism at Sciences Po.