2023-08-01 14:04:00
After six weeks of strike and as many unpublished issues, the editorial staff of the Sunday newspaper (JDD) ended its social movement on Tuesday August 1st. There Society of Journalists (SDJ) of JDD announced that it had signed an agreement with the management of Lagardère News, ending a forty-day strike. The website of JDD must resume its activity on Tuesday, and the paper version of the newspaper must return to newsstands “from mid-August”Lagardère said in a statement.
The editorial staff had been opposed since the end of June to the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, who came from the far-right newspaper Current valuesat its head, “whose values are in total contradiction with those of the JDD »and asked to“provide journalists with guarantees of legal and editorial independence”. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the editorial staff voted the end of the movement by 94% – 82 votes for, 5 against.
“It costs us to recognize it (…) : if we have put the issue of the independence of editorial staff back in the public square, in front of our shareholder, we have not won”, continues the SDJ in its press release. Despite this unprecedented movement, the arrival of Mr. Lejeune at the head of the newspaper took effect on August 1st.
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“Dozens of journalists refuse to work with [Geoffroy Lejeune] and should leave the JDD », announces the Society of Journalists. The SDJ also thanked “all those who have supported us during this long and trying conflict, which has made it possible to put the question of editorial independence back at the heart of public debate”.
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