At 71, journalist Edwy Plenel announced on Monday February 12 that he would be leaving the management of Mediapart on March 14. The current publishing director has not revealed the name of his successor.
With his team, he launched the Cahuzac affair at the end of 2012, named after the former socialist Budget Minister who was ousted after lying about his secret bank account held abroad. “We have a single compass, which is the public interest. We do not target camps or people,” assures its co-founder, who evokes broad fields of inquiry from ecology to sexist and sexual violence.