The Societies of Journalists of Paris Match and JDD, owned by Vincent Bolloré, announce that they have dissolved. Relations between the SDJ and the management of the two press titles had become considerably strained since their takeover by the billionairess.
Since November, the Lagardère group, which owns these newspapers, has in fact been under the full control of Vivendi, a media giant run by the Bollorée family. The SDJ of ParisMatch declared in December its disagreement with the choice of a front page dedicated to a Christmas nativity scene in a Parisian home belonging to Vincent Boll oré. And last June, a member of theSDJ, who was concerned about interference in the editorial choices of the weekly.