France Télévisions has decided to dismiss Laurent Guimier, its director of information according to
Le Parisien.
This is confirmed by an email sent internally by Delphine Ernotte, the president of France Télévisions.
The leader formalizes the appointment of her replacement, Alexandre Kara.
And specifies that within this new organization, Nathalie Saint-Cricq is promoted “
coordinator in charge of the editorial developments of information, with the director of information
”.
She will nevertheless retain her position as editorialist.
These appointments are effective as of today.
Alexandre Kara is no stranger to France Télévisions.
Since December 2021, he has held the position of deputy director of programs for France Télévisions.
The former political journalist from Europe 1 arrived in the group at the beginning of 2016, as number 3 for information, when Michel Field managed the editorial staff of France Télévisions.
Bad audiences of “Élysée 2022”
Passed by
Le Figaro
,
Europe 1 and
France Info
radio
, Laurent Guimier, for his part, arrived in the summer of 2020 at France Télévisions.
He had first directed the continuous news channel franceinfo, before being propelled, three months later, in September, boss of information in place of Yannick Letranchant.
He probably pays in part for the poor audience results for his political program "Élysée 2022" on France 2 and more generally for the presidential sequence on the group's antennas.
This summer, Laurent Guimier had also been weakened by a motion of no confidence, because of his complicated relationship with the editorial staff.
At the time, Delphine Ernotte kept him in office, while agreeing that
important signal that must be taken into account
”.
For now, Laurent Guimier has not left the group.
Management claims to have made several proposals to him, to which he has not yet responded.
Within the media microcosm, he was given the desire to apply for the presidency of Radio France, which will be reassigned at the beginning of 2023. What the person concerned has not yet confirmed or denied.