Direction of the “World”: shareholders propose Jerome Fenoglio – Les Echos

The current managing editor does however was not one of the three declared candidates from the Editors of the World Society.

This is a surprise. The shareholders of “World” finally proposed the name Jerome Fenoglio, the current managing editor of the title, to head the evening news. It was not part of the three candidates who made themselves known early April by declaring their candidacy for the World Society of Editors of Gilles Van Kote, the current interim director, Christophe Ayad, head of the international service, and Jean Birnbaum, head of the literary supplement “The World of Books”. This choice must now be endorsed by the employees: the candidate must receive 60% of votes in favor to be officially named

web Double-cap and print

“After hearings and after consultation, and despite the great qualities of each candidate and the very positive assessment of the interim provided by Gilles Van Kote, the three shareholders requested Jerome Fenoglio to stand and provide management of the World and print their digital experience while remaining in the current dynamic “, explained in an email to employees of the group Pierre Bergé, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, the three owners of the title.

In the “World” since 1991, Jerome Fenoglio went through different departments within the newspaper (Sports, Society, Le Monde 2), before “going on the Web” in 2011, take the direction of the Chief monde.fr. He was managing editor since the resignation of Natalie Nougayrède in May 2014. In the eyes of the “trio BNP”, so he had the merit to bring the web-print double cap, and familiar home. Is the same profile, basically that of Matthew Croissandeau, the new director of “L’Observateur”.

Shareholders do not agree

According to our information, the shareholders would not have been able to agree on one of the three names mentioned openly. So they postponed their choice on Jerome Fenoglio, a pillar of the team Van Kote – the change in continuity. The shareholders also welcomed Gilles Van Kote, including “serenity found newsrooms” , “progression of the World Hearings” and “results Positive economic “.

If called in an internal mail “very proud” of his acting but “obviously disappointed” of the failure of his candidacy, Gilles Van Kote, long a mainstay of the Society of Editors of the “World”, also regretted the instability at the head of the “world” that “hinders the necessary log transformations” and “site the shareholders of their responsibilities “. In fact, while writing validates the choice of the shareholders, Jerome Fenoglio become the sixth director of the World since the acquisition of the group in late 2010.