Journalist Eve Szeftel, from “Libération”, takes over as editor of “Marianne”

The journalist of LiberationEve Szeftel, was appointed, Wednesday January 8, editorial director of Marianne to work alongside Frédéric Taddeï, successor to Natacha Polony at the head of the magazine, announced the CMI France group.

“By appointing an editorial director to Frédéric Taddeï (…)CMI France affirms its determination to progress rapidly in the transformation of Marianne »the group said in a press release.

Owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, CMI France has twice failed to sell Marianne in recent months. The group announced in December that it would keep the magazine, with Frédéric Taddeï as director in place of Natacha Polony from 1^is mars.

Him and Eve Szeftel “will comfort Marianne as a republican, popular, rigorous and non-aligned information and debate magazine”estimated Denis Olivennes, chairman of the supervisory board of CMI France, quoted in the press release.

“My objective will be to offer rigorous information, without ideological blinkers, at the service of readers, in a context where the truth and the debate of ideas have never been more necessary”for her part announced Eve Szeftel in the press release.

Twenty years at Agence France-Presse

The journalist has worked since 2021 at Liberationwhere she covered social issues. Previously, she spent twenty years at Agence France-Presse, where she notably covered economic subjects and those linked to the suburbs at the Bobigny office.

In 2020 she released the book The Mayor and the Barbarians (Albin Michel), in which she describes the troubled links between the former mayor of Drancy Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the town hall of Bobigny, Islamists and thugs, against a backdrop of clientelist practices.

In July, CMI France ceased discussions for a resumption of Marianne by the conservative billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, then in November those engaged with the entrepreneur Jean-Martial Lefranc.

The first was rejected by the editorial staff after the revelation by The World connections with the extreme right. The second had raised fears about editorial independence.