Tuesday October 22 then the next day at Figarorue de Provence, in Paris, management and elected officials of the social and economic committee (CSE) will meet in an extraordinary meeting for the second and third time in a few days. Thursday, October 17, a reorganization plan covering several services was presented: the editorial secretariat, iconography, artistic direction, documentation, etc. Ultimately, twelve positions should disappear according to management – seventeen, according to the unions, which include in the workforce three voluntary departures occurring in recent months, and two sick leave.
“Every three to four years, we reorganize the printed edition, in structural decline »justifies Marc Feuillée, the general director of the Figaro Group. This “simplifying the editing process” must lead to “productivity savings” amounting to 1.5 million euros annually, in particular thanks to the use of more efficient digital tools. “It seems that management has high hopes (…) in new tools, including artificial intelligence, supposed to automate certain tasks such as choosing photos, image processing, correction, etc. »regrets the National Union of Journalists, the majority in the editorial staff, in a press release.
Damaged trust in management
In return, assures Mr. Feuillée, Le Figaro “continues to hire” journalists, either the creation of“around a hundred positions in four to five years”broken down between the five “local editorial offices”the social media unit and the Le Figaro TV channel. “According to the “slide” that was presented to us, there are around sixty positions since 2019”corrects Laurent Mardelay, CGT union representative, majority in the company. In any case, in the technical editorial department, where those who will stay already fear additional work, as in the writing editorial department, the good figures for daily sales and site visits recorded during the summer have not been extinguishes worries.
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Confidence in the editorial management, damaged by the two editorials by the editorial director, Alexis Brézet, on Europe 1 and in the daily newspaper, deemed favorable to the National Rally and which had prompted a letter of protest signed by 205 journalists, n didn’t come back. It was even started again this summer, when a “a long-scheduled interview with Thomas Jolly”the director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, strongly criticized by the far right, was canceled, according to a report from the society of journalists (SDJ), which questioned Mr. Brézet on this subject. .
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