“We don’t feel the urgency, everything is very calm here,” wonders Laurent Mazurier, leaving the editorial conference of Julian Bugier’s 1 p.m. newspaper. This former mayor of Saint-Servais (29) is the oldest (76 years old) of the team of Télégramme readers, winners of the subscriber competition and invited to Paris to discover behind the scenes of the news, and of the “liner” France Televisions which houses 3,000 employees. He has just celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with his wife, Marie-Thérèse. Everyone arrived the day before, slept in Montparnasse, and some took advantage of the getaway to go see the Eiffel Tower or the Christmas windows of the department stores. The journalists leave to focus their subjects on meal vouchers and bad weather. Some, like the centenary of the sardine fisheries in Douarnenez (29), are filmed in advance. Emmanuel Urien, caregiver and ambulance driver at the Pont l’Abbé hospital (29), describes himself as “passionate about the media” with his wife Rozenn, a nurse. “I didn’t think that Julian Bugier had so much control over the subjects, nor that he was so present and decision-making on editorial choices,” explains this forty-year-old, with a small beard and light eyes.
Maryse Burgot and the weather
At his side, Sophie Lacour, teacher and librarian at a high school in Quimper, has sparkling eyes and asks questions to Muriel Pleynet, the national editorial director. Marie, her 26-year-old daughter, from Toulouse, doesn’t miss a beat… “The news industry interests me,” Sophie emphasizes. I explain to my students how to source what scrolls on their phone and not take everything at face value. Obviously, when you talk to me about the Revelators, this new team of young journalists who investigate social networks at France 2 and check that the image has not been hijacked, I find that essential,” she says…
After a conversation with the great reporter Maryse Burgot who passionately recounts her “daily life” in conflict zones and her thirteen stays already spent in Ukraine, we turn to the weather, where Julia Martin, the presenter, explains her job in a small room entirely covered with green felt, on which the maps of France are projected.
State-of-the-art studios
A visit to the ultra-modern France Info studio and it’s already time for the newspaper. The very spacious studios are in the basement. 12:52 p.m., Julian Bugier, not determined, enters the stage, his pack of cards in hand, the makeup artist at his heels. He winks in pictures at our readers, before launching a subject lasting several minutes on Notre-Dame and its spire.
Corinne Vola, former executive secretary of the Pierre Hermé house in Paris, is now based in Ploërdut (56), where she was press correspondent for Télégramme. She is fascinated by “the multiplicity of sources and the fluidity of the newspaper, constructed in such a short time,” she whispers in the newspaper’s control room.
Too much Brittany!
On the set, once the camera is cut, Julian, relaxed, talks about Brittany, his wife from Conquet (29), the Côtes d’Armor for his part… “You know that viewers write to us regularly to tell us that we Are we giving too much space to Brittany? » He then happily takes photos. Marie looks at her screen: “It’s really great, it’s me who’s not great…” Finally, around a meal tray, the questions come: “What time do you arrive at the editorial office? Where do you usually have lunch? The teleprompter, the technical problems, the pressure from politicians, the audiences… Julian Bugier and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Thomas Horeau respond with humor and precision and also ask questions. Finally, after a crumble and a last coffee, the readers return to Montparnasse station, delighted with this “exceptional” interlude, the most heard word of the day!
