The World. No. 2 Jerome Fenoglio tipped to management – Ouest-France

In an email sent to the editor, the trio of owners (Pierre Bergé, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse) said it had asked the current managing editor, 48, who was not a candidate. Their choice has yet to be ratified by the employees.

The shareholders rejected the candidacy of the current interim director of the newspaper, Gilles Van Kote, as well as Christophe Ayad, head of the international service, and Jean Birnbaum, head of the World the Books . “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 asked Jerome Fenoglio to stand” , they detail.

60% of votes required

Some in the drafting, wanted the new director “no more breath, more dimension “ Gilles Van Kote confided early April a journalist. The choice of shareholders must be submitted to the vote of the World Editors Society (MRS), to be held by mid-May. Jerome Fenoglio will have to collect 60% of favorable votes to be officially appointed by the Supervisory Board.

He holds a Master of Arts degree from the Graduate School of Journalism in Lille (ESJ), Jerome Fenoglio joined the World in 1991 as a reporter in the sports department. He has held several line functions: Head of Society (2004) and editor of the Monde.fr, between 2011 and 2013

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In May 2014, he was appointed head of the editorial of the World, led by Gilles Van Kote, became acting director after the departure of Natalie Nougayrède, after a few months of crisis . Contested, the first woman to head the newspaper resigned after only 15 months in office. Service journalists and leaders accused him management “autarkic” and “rigid” and reforms carried out without consultation. In a message to employees Friday, Gilles Van Kote welcomed a “choice that safeguards the interests of the newspaper” and work “remarkable” his deputy, while formulating “regret” “Jerome will be our sixth Director of the World since the acquisition of the group in late 2010. This instability that hinders the necessary transformation of the newspaper instead shareholders before their responsibilities” laments there.

273,000 copies daily

If it is dubbed by the editor, Jerome Fenoglio take the controls of a newspaper which, if suffered like others from the press crisis, rather well last year with almost stable distribution (-0.8%) to 273,000 copies on average each day.

It will also carry out several projects in the months and years to come.

Le Monde is to launch on May 11, a digital edition of the morning designed for tablets and mobile. To a young audience and present on smartphones, this format freemium (combining free and pay-party options) will be a point early in the morning on the news.

In 2017, the future headquarters of Le Monde, in the south of Paris, should help bring together the 1400 employees of different publications: Le Monde, the cultural weekly Télérama, the magazine L’Observateur, Rue89 information sites and Huffington Post, Courrier International and La Vie.