INTERVIEW
He is the editorial director of a "major public quality newspaper", and now also one of the "best-known French magazine in the world". Since Tuesday, Hervé Gattegno is at the head of the JDD and Paris-Match . Guest of Culture Media Thursday, the "director general of the editorial offices" (which belong, like Europe 1, to the group Lagardère, ed), returns on its promotion.
"A big responsibility"
If he learned of his appointment a few days before, "if only to give [his] agreement", it is well Tuesday, October 29 that the former editor-in-chief of the French version of the prestigious Vanity Fair has officially taken its functions. "I said 'yes' right away, it's a pride to run a magazine like Match , and in France it's the biggest by prestige and sales, with more than 500,000 a week," says the journalist, who is also editorialist on Europe 1 on Sunday morning. "So it's also a big responsibility."
Initiator of the scoop culture in the JDD , Hervé Gattegno will now have to share his time, and "his shots" between two editorial offices and two very different titles, but he already seems to have a good idea of how he will manage things. "I'm going to have to make arbitrations, but at a time when scoops are more and more perishable, if I have one that can not wait until Sunday, the day of publication of the JDD , maybe 'he will be in Match , who is going out on Thursday'.