Denis Robert, French journalist and writer.

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The web TV 

Le Média

asked the journalist Denis Robert to give up his post of editorial director, his function being "incompatible" with a reorganization of the channel, the management also reproaching him for having established a "climate of evil. to be ".

Denis Robert, known for his revelations on the Clearstream scandal in the 2000s, had replaced Aude Lancelin in April 2019 at the head of the editorial staff of the Media, a left-wing web TV financed by its subscribers.

"Things are going very badly between him and the editorial staff"

Friday, the management of the chain asked the journalist not to "exercise" this function.

For the president of the press company Le Média, Julien Théry, "the existence of an editorial director is not compatible with the reorganization project" of the channel, today an association financed by its subscribers, which must turn into a cooperative.

This post is therefore deleted, and "structurally", this decision "is not linked to the personality of Denis", said Julien Théry, his employer.

"There was never any question of asking Denis to leave

Le Média

, where he has his place"

“From the start, the Media project has been a collective project, with an ideal of collegiality in governance”, assuming the absence of an editorial director, he said.

But "there is all the more a desire to remove this post as things are going very badly between him and the editorial staff", he added, speaking of a "climate of ill-being that reigns in the team ”.

And "de facto, Denis Robert had not held office for six months".

For its part, the Society of Media Journalists mentioned in a press release a "deleterious climate" that the management methods of Denis Robert would have established.

Asked by AFP, Denis Robert did not respond immediately.

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