Jean-Marie Colombani

Jean-Marie Colombani is a Journaliste French, born the July 7th 1948 with Dakar (Senegal). He was president of the directory of SA Le Monde and director of the newspaper Le Monde of 1994 to 2007.

Biography

Jean-Marie Colombani is graduate Institut of political studies of Paris and Université of Paris II the Pantheon-Assas.

It begins its career in 1973 as journalist with ORTF, then at the office of FR3 to Noumea (New Caledonia), for which it is thanked following reports on the freedom fighters kanaks. It enters in 1977 to the Monde as writer to the political service, of which he becomes chief in 1983. It is named editor association in 1990, then assistant with the director of the drafting in 1991. He is elected director of the newspaper in March 1994.

Under its direction, a new formula of the daily newspaper is launched in 1995, and makes it possible to start again the sales. The same year, Le Monde inaugurates its presence on Internet. November 7th, 2005, Le Monde again publishes a new formula, which proposes a deep change of the architecture of the daily newspaper. Since 1994, Le Monde is also engaged in the construction of an press group, today the group the Life it Monde .

Jean-Marie Colombani animates a weekly political chronicle on France Inter as well as the emission " Faces with Faces" on Public Senate. It animates with Jean-Claude Casanova the emission the Rumor of the world on France Culture. It also Co-animated the emissions the Hour of truth (France 2) and Questions in residence (TF1, with Anne Sinclair).

He is member of the club the Century.

May 22nd, 2007, the vote of the members of the company of the writers of World (SRM) bearing on a third mandate of Jean-Marie Colombani to the head of the directory of the group was concluded by a disavowal. Only 48,5% of the votes (necessary 60%) were expressed for a renewal. It was thus not renewed by the board of trustees, the SRM having a right to veto.

July 2nd, 2007, Pierre Jeantet (previously managing director) succeeded to him the position of president of the directory of the group Le Monde, accompanied by Bruno Patino as vice-president, while Eric Fottorino (previously directing of the drafting) took the position of director of the newspaper.

Jean-Marie Colombani is charged by Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the Republic, and Francois Fillon, Prime Minister, of a mission on the adoption on October 4th, 2007.

At the time of its departure of the World programmed for on November 1st, 2007, it goes, according to several dispatches of agency (AFP and Reuters dated October 26th, 2007), to receive this press company an allowance of 950 000 €. Information which draws its source in the confidential letter News , which specifies: " according to our information, the former president of the directory of the World, which was replaced by Pierre Jeantet last June, should leave officially the group on November 1st, 2007. " And begun again by online news depending on the Group the Life it World, of which Challenges , shareholder of the World in subject.

Works published

Contradictions , discussions with Anicet Pors, ED. Will Messidor, 1984
the Utopia calédonienne , Denoël, 1985
Portrait of the president or the imaginary monarch , Gallimard, 1985
the phony marriage , in collaboration with Jean-Yves Lhomeau, Grasset, 1986
Questions of confidence , discussions with Raymond Barre, Flammarion, 1987
the heirs , in collaboration with Jean-Yves Lhomeau, Flammarion, 1989
France without Mitterrand , Flammarion, 1992
the left survive the Socialists? , Flammarion, 1994
the double septennate of François Mitterrand , in collaboration with Hugues Portelli, Grasset, 1995
Of France in general and its leaders in particular , Plon, 1996
the Resident of the Republic , Stock, 1998
the Fifth or the Republic of the phratries , in collaboration with Georgette Elgey, Beech, 1999
Misfortunes of the Republic , Grasset, 2000
All Americans? Le Monde after September 11th, 2001 , Grasset, 2002
France-America: Rackings Dangerous , in collaboration with Walter Wells, Jacob-Duvernet, 2004
With the wire of the World , Plon, 2007

Others

Jean-Marie Colombani is the author of the leading article “ Us all American ” are published the shortly after the attacks of the September 11th, 2001.

Jean-Marie Colombani was operations manager by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Fillon in order to return conclusions on the adoption to France.

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