Marie-Christine Zaragoza was reappointed Wednesday for a third term as president of France Médias Monde, the public group responsible for audiovisual outside France, announced Arcom, the audiovisual regulator.
In office since 2012, Ms. Zaragoza, 62, was appointed for an additional five years by Arcom, starting April 23.
France Médias Monde brings together the continuous news channel France 24 (in French, English, Arabic and Spanish), radio RFI (in French and 15 other languages) and the Arabic language radio Monte Carlo Doualiya (MCD).
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In a context marked by a profound transformation of the audiovisual sector, an evolution of the methods of financing public audiovisual (with the abolition of the license fee, editor's note) and major geopolitical upheavals, the Authority has chosen to favor the experience acquired at the head of the group by Mrs. Marie-Christine Saragosse
”, explained Arcom in a press release.
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The outgoing was preferred to four other candidates: Sylvain Attal (ex-deputy director of France 24 in charge of new media), David Hivet (international media specialist), Arnaud Ngatcha (journalist and deputy mayor of Paris in charge of international relations ) and Pierre-Étienne Pommier (digital entrepreneur).
His renewal follows by three weeks that of the president of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, for a second term.
That of the third boss of public broadcasting, Delphine Ernotte (France Télévisions), runs until 2025, after its renewal in 2020.