“One day having to choose a successor to Jean-Pierre was my fear when I was at TF1.
I regularly told him to wait until I was gone to go away, jokes Catherine Nayl, former news director of the front page between 2009 and 2017, before becoming serious again.
Thierry Thuillier's mission is very difficult ”.
It is he who will have the heavy task of appointing the replacement for Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
The current head of TF1 news had planned to make his choice only in October.
Continuity or rupture
“We will have to speed up the tempo,” he admitted yesterday to his editorial staff.
The decision is all the more difficult since no one imposes himself as a natural successor.
Two options are available to the leader: appoint a journalist who fits perfectly in the footsteps of JPP or, more dangerous, take the perfect antithesis and turn everything upside down, at the risk of losing the 6 million regulars of the mid-newspaper. day.
Jacques Legros
, the usual joker of the 13 Hours of TF1, could provide a more or less long interim.
But he is not a long-term solution: he will be 70 years old on July 25.
Julien Arnaud
, 46, who replaces Gilles Bouleau during his holidays, wants this promotion.
Just like
Audrey Crespo-Mara
, 44 years old.
But it is
Dominique Lagrou-Sempère
who best embodies continuity.
Visage du 13 Heures, the 46-year-old journalist, presented the magazine “Au cœur des regions” on LCI with her mentor.
Which makes her one of the favorites for the job.
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On the LCI side, the name of
David Pujadas
, 55, is making a comeback.
Just like that of the morning woman
Pascale de La Tour du Pin
, 42 years old.
The perception of the 13 Hours had been made to him during his debauchery from BFMTV in 2017. The disappointing audiences of his morning are they right about this project?
As for the new recruit
Darius Rochebin
, who made a remarkable arrival on the news channel, the hypothesis was excluded.
"I like it, but it is unthinkable", assured Thierry Thuillier to his writing.
In the competition, several journalists are well seen in the tower of TF1:
Thomas Sotto
(47 years old) who officiates every evening on RTL and during the holidays of Laurent Delahousse on France 2, as well as two emblematic presenters of BFMTV:
Christophe Delay
( 53 years old) or
Alain Marschall,
(57 years old).
These two journalists with strong personalities have an advantage, they embody a strong proximity with France of the territories.
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