Natacha Polony, editorial director since 2018, will leave her position. Thursday, December 19 in the morning, Denis Olivennes, the right arm of Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky – owner of the title – and Valérie Salomon, the president of CMI France, came to the premises of Marianne in order to formalize the news before the social and economic committee then during a meeting lasting almost two hours. Also a columnist for “C l’hebdo” on France 5 and debater on France Inter, she will nevertheless keep an editorial each week in the magazine.
Frédéric Taddeï will replace her as head of the editorial staff of Marianneas revealed by an article in the media La Lettre. He will take office on 1is March 2025, a CMI press release confirmed Thursday morning. Known for his hosting of the talk show “Ce Soir (or Jam!)” between 2006 and 2016 on France 3 and France 2, the sixty-year-old drifted to RT France, the French-speaking version of Russian public television RT, between 2018 and 2022 Considered by Europe as a Kremlin propaganda instrument, the channel was banned in the European Union in March 2022 before it closed in . 2023 following the freezing of its assets. Mr. Taddeï has also been present, since 2005, on Europe 1 radio, now controlled by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
On the written press side, his experience is less. The ex-collaborator ofCurrent and of GQ had taken over from Frédéric Beigbeder as editorial director of the magazine His in 2017, which targeted a male audience with photos of naked women. He will have the task of relaunching a weekly in great economic difficulties. The magazine is preparing to end the year 2024 with a deficit of 3.6 million euros for only 11.2 million euros in turnover.
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In 2018, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky made his first acquisition in the French press by buying the newsmagazine created in 1997 by Jean-François Kahn and Maurice Szafran, and chose to place Mme Polony at its head, which she has ruled with an iron fist ever since. But since the spring, the Czech billionaire had decided to sell the weekly, believing that its content and its sovereignist editorial director had become too far from what he claims to be his pro-European and liberal values.
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